🏭 Heritage-listed building
Built: c.1875 · NIAH rating: Regional
This prominent and decorative Victorian public house was built for M. Nugent, to designs by architect John Joseph O'Callaghan, an eminent Dublin architect who became the first president of the Architectural Association of Ireland in 1872. Its site has a long commercial history, in 1862 No.35 was listed as the premises of Denis ONeill, grocer, tea, wine and spirit dealer, and No.36 was listed as the premises of Denis Tynan, provision dealer and float owner. The distinctive carved limestone shopfront displays skilled stonemasonry and enlivens the streetscape, with elaborate detailing that is characteristic of its era. The gabled parapet and canted window bay at upper floors add interest to the front elevation. It shares style and material characteristics with Dolphin House at numbers 33-34 on the same street, which was designed by the same architect for the same client almost a decade later. Essex Street opened in 1674 and was divided into east and west in the 1760s, with the construction of Parliament Street. The street was largely rebuilt in the nineteenth century.
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