Shelbourne Hotel

Hotel in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1860–1870

Corner-sited ten-bay five-storey hotel over basement with dormer attic, built c. 1865, having central projecting portico entrance fronted by wrought-iron canopy and flanked by two-bay-wide canted-bays from basement to first floor; three-bay elevation to Kildare Street with same floor levels as front façade; abutted along Kildare Street by further seven-bay six-storey return with basement and dormer attic (formerly several houses); and extensions of c. 1990 around central light-well to rear and east of main building and return. Natural slate mansard roof with central valley to main block and return, lead-capped ridges and hips, and painted smooth-rendered flat-capped chimneystacks with clay pots. Red brick wig-pointed Flemish bond brick walling with painted render detailing comprising moulded eaves cornice on modillion brackets and with plain frieze; frieze with recessed panels and paired consoles in line with window jambs between third and fourth floors; moulded stringcourse to fourth floor; modillion-bracketed cornice between first and second floors, projecting from smooth frieze; rectangular panels between ground and first floor windows with flanking consoles and containing embossed enrichment. Projecting granite ground floor sill course carried on angular consoles projecting from dado. Smooth rendered walling to basement with platband. Moulded corner pilasters with recessed

Type:
Hotel

Period:
1860–1870

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.34°N, 6.26°W

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