Belvedere College

House in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1760–1790

Detached symmetrical five-bay four-storey Georgian townhouse over exposed basement, built 1765-86, designed by Robert West for George Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere. Now in educational use and known as Belvedere College, and part of larger complex of educational buildings. Roof hidden behind parapet wall with fluted granite frieze and cornice. Rendered chimneystacks to each gable with cast-iron hopper and downpipe to east gable, replacement uPVC hopper and downpipe to west gable. Twentieth-century red brick walls laid in Flemish bond c.1952 to moulded Portland limestone continuous sill course at first floor level. Continuous ashlar limestone apron to first floor windows, balustraded to each window and set on full-span platband above ground floor. Coursed chamfered rusticated limestone ground floor on limestone plinth course above coursed and squared calp limestone basement walls. Both gables cement rendered. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings to upper floors with painted masonry sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to lower two floors and one-over-one pane to upper two floors, and four-over-four pane to basement. Voussoired square-headed window openings to ground floor with square-headed recessed masonry surrounds, limestone sills and recessed panels to plinth course. Square-headed window openings to basement level with gauged calp stone f

Type:
House

Period:
1760–1790

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.36°N, 6.26°W

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