City Assembly House

Assembly rooms in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1760–1770

Corner-sited attached three-bay three-storey over railed basement former assembly rooms, built 1765, with octagonal-plan double-height assembly room to rear. Later in use as City Hall, Civic Museum, now in use as the headquarters of the Irish Georgian Society. Hipped natural slate roof, on U-plan, with central conical glazed stairlight. Octagonal-plan hipped natural slate roof to rear hall, arranged around further conical glazed lantern. Roof hidden behind parapet with replacement metal hopper and downpipe breaking through to north side elevation. Two asymmetrically-placed tall shouldered rendered chimneystacks having lipped clay pots. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with rusticated granite ashlar ground floor and deep moulded granite crown cornice to parapet. Rubble calp limestone wall to basement. Ruled-and-lined rendered north elevation wall with projecting rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and nineteenth-century two-over-two timber sash windows having much historic glass. Granite architraves to first and second floors of front elevation only having continuous moulded granite sill course, pulvinated friezes and cornices to first floor only. Rear assembly room retaining tripartite timber sash window. Central round-headed door opening with Portland limestone Doric surround. Original double-leaf timber door with seven raised-and-field

Type:
Assembly rooms

Period:
1760–1770

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.34°N, 6.26°W

More places nearby

Explore this and over 1.8 million other heritage records on Fornland, the free map of cultural heritage across northern and central Europe.