Plans of Lower Pembroke Street and Baggot Street with elevations of cottages. Scale: 5' 1'' [Elevation].

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Showing the proposed form of the South-West angle on the ground floor. Scale: 80' 1''

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General Information: This working drawing is a copy, on a slightly larger scale, of an elevation approved by the Wide Streets Commission on 27 May 1825. (See WSC/Maps/49). A section and half-plan are given with detailed measurements. The elevation also features measurements for w

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General Information: These designs were ordered by the Wide Street Commission prior to advertising the leases of ground at the corner of Charles St. and Mass Lane (now Chancery Place) facing Inns Quay. This is a good example of the Commission’s determination to impose standards o

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This elevation and ground-plan is of a single-storey cottage projecting into Lower Pembroke St. and adjacent to the quoin of William Galway’s house, no. 129 Baggot Street. The house and adjoining cottage were built for Sir John Blaquiere during the 1790s. The cottage was original

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General Information: The Wide Street Commission completed the widening of Kevin St. in 1825. In order to facilitate the Commission’s work, the Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the Hon. Richard Ponsonby, had agreed to give up a portion of his court-yard and an old stable adjoining

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General Information: This elevation for a terrace of four five-storey houses on the north side of Dame St., incorporating shops at ground level, was approved by the Wide Streets Commission on 14 March 1832, with the proviso that ‘The fronts to be built of the best Grey Stone Bric

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These three drawings relate to projecting buildings at the corners of Lower Pembroke St. and Baggot St. In 1792 the Wide Streets Commission determined that Pembroke St. was to be laid down according to a plan presented by Lord Fitzwilliam: the new street was to be 70 feet wide. I

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General Information: On 16 May 1832, D. H. Sherrard reported to the Wide Streets Commission that owing to recent widening and improvement of Winetavern St. and consequent alteration of levels, the east side of the street was now too low, and a sustaining wall should be built for

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