1760 – No. 20 Dominick Street, Dublin

Robert West the stuccodore who designed many of the finest interiors in the city lived at No. 20, a house he designed and decorated himself with very elaborate plasterwork. The house has had a varied history: it was owned by John Beresford; in 1856 it was a Protestant school where Sean O’Casey’s mother and sister were teachers; and eventually it ended up as an orphanage. The interior contains lavish plasterwork.

According to the Dominican order who used it as an orphange for some years after 1927 as St. Saviour’s Orphanage. “Built by Robert West in 1758-60 for Judge Robert Marshall, it passed in 1774 to the Christmas family, until 1856. Shortly afterwards the Rev. Edward Singleton Abbott bought it for use as a Protestant school, which it remained for seventy years”.