Independent House

Office in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1920–1925

Terraced symmetrical nine-bay four-storey neoclassical office building with attic, built 1924, to designs of Robert Donnelly. Flat roof with slate mansard type front pitch having copper-clad dormers and decorative copper panelled parapet with iron railing over. Slate domical vaulted roofs to advanced end bays with deep moulded copper ribs, decorative copper oval dormers and octagonal copper finials with flag poles. Square-profile cast-iron gutter over attic storey with decorative cast-iron hoppers and downpipes breaking through front elevation. Machine-made red brick walls laid in Flemish bond to first and second floors, channel rusticated Portland stone to ground floor with coursed granite ashlar plinth course, rock-faced to advanced end bays and surmounted by platband with diamond-faced blocks. Central five bays framed by engaged giant Doric order Portland stone columns rising from first floor and supporting full-span dentillated and modillioned entablature below third floor. Applied bronze lettering to frieze stating 'Sunday Independent' to west advanced bay, 'Irish Independent' to central section and 'Evening Herald' to east advanced bay. Projecting Art Deco-style bronze clock to centre of façade. Square-headed window openings with geometric Portland stone architrave surrounds, steel casement windows with margined lights and brick aprons between first and second floors. Fir

Type:
Office

Period:
1920–1925

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.35°N, 6.26°W

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