M. HUGHES Heritage

🏭 Heritage-listed building

Built: c.1925 · NIAH rating: Regional

Nos.19-20 Chancery Street were constructed by Robinson & Keefe for W.J. O’Hara, tea, wine and spirit merchant in 1927, replacing an earlier public house. To the north of the Four Courts and close to the wholesale markets, nos.19-20 Chancery Street served a social function as a public house throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The twentieth-century origins of this building are evident in the chamfered corner, where it is evident that the brick is clearly a cladding rather than a structural element. The use of brick remained popular following the development of concrete and steel technologies for its decorative effects, as demonstrated here in the polychromy. The carved stone masonry and timber work to the shopfronts indicates the survival of traditional craft skills in the first part of the twentieth-century. Robinson & Keefe designed some of Dublin’s finest buildings in the 1920s and 1930s, including the Carlton Cinema, the Dublin Gas Company offices, Fairview Technical School and the College of Domestic Economy.

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