Mansion House, Dublin
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Dublin’s Mansion House has undergone a facelift of late, after years of decorative neglect. In spite of all the progress in the city around it over the course of the past decade, and the millions pouring into the City Council’s coffers, the Mansion House resolutely remained an oasis of 1980s decrepit Dublin, smothered in pink yoghurt and wishy washily accented with white-painted dressings. In more recent years the building shamefully became nothing short of an eyesore on Dawson Street, its dressings and original sash windows peeling extensively atop the dated pink fa
To offer a comparison of before and after on the exact same window (only a few weeks in the difference), the contrast is stark.
It looks like they were taken years apart.
And up close:
What a difference. How things were allowed get into that state…
The Victorian corbels are now a delight to behold:
The ironwork of the 1906 iron entrance porch has been carefully repainted, while the capitals await regilding:
And again before and after:
Only one thing left to do and that’s the removal of the ugly domestic CFL light bulbs in the lanterns and their replacement with sparkling tungsten or clear halogen equivalents. Wonderful to see a large squat lantern still suspended beneath the porch – to my knowledge the very last of its kind in use this way anywhere in a city that once featured them on nearly every street, suspended over countless doorways.
Hopefully there’s some new white floodlighting behind the basement parapet too.
The Mansion House, as most people know of course, has been jigged about a lot over the years, having first being built as an imposing Queen Anne residence in the classical style for Joshua Dawson around 1710:
It remained pretty much as such – faced in brick and adorned with an imposing parapet – until the Victorians came along with their ‘cleansing’ notions, and decided to cheer things up by rendering over the fa
Thanks for those Graham.
lol
I can’t Morlan – relaxing with a cuppa now.
Very interesting … as you say if they could lose the cars out front I think it would make a big difference (like so many other places in Dublin)…
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