Natural History Museum

Museum/gallery in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1855–1860

Detached rectangular-plan two-storey museum building, erected 1856-7, having three-bay front elevation, twelve-bay north elevation and ten-bay south elevation, three end bays of long elevations projecting slightly. Hipped slate roof with central rooflight, leaded ridges and hips, and simple brick chimneystacks. Overhanging Portland stone eaves on corbel brackets separated by carved leaf panels over rinceau frieze having rope-moulded fillet. Ashlar granite walling, rusticated to ground floor, having stepped quoins, Portland stone dressings including grotesque panels; south elevation is of roughly coursed rubble masonry with granite quoins to projecting ends. Square-headed window openings to north elevation ground floor with plain reveals and continuous sill course; similarly detailed ground floor windows to south elevation, sill course to first three projecting bays only, otherwise having projecting granite sills. Square-headed blind openings to upper storey of south elevation, later segmental-headed openings inserted at lower level c. 1900 and having brick voussoirs, projecting sills and top-hung casement windows. Other openings are blind, square-headed to ground floor of front elevation with sill course; round-headed niches to first floor set in square-headed pedimented surrounds having scrolled brackets, grotesque friezes and panelled aprons beneath continuous sill course, fr

Type:
Museum/gallery

Period:
1855–1860

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.34°N, 6.25°W

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