Lovely Building Lumps

My lovely building lumps (lumps)
My lovely building lumps (lumps)
My lovely building lumps (lumps)
In the back and in the front (lumps)
My lovin’ got you

I could have an educated guess, but right now my mind’s full of the lyrics I think you were alluding to in your thread title.

Where’s that building?* I think I recognise it, but I can’t be sure. An on-site examination might yield more fruitful results.

*Edit: I’m getting a side-of-the-Powerscourt feel…

@ctesiphon wrote:

Where’s that building?* I think I recognise it, but I can’t be sure..

Side of DBS?
i think they’re for the real life Spiderman:

http://www.visitearth.asia/media/blogs/visitHK.cn/hongkong-spiderman.jpg

Let’s bring him to Dublin to scale a four storey building with two setback storeys!

The photo is of an old building on Pearse St beside HJLyons old offices. on the side facing onto a lane.

I have also seen them on the side of a Georgian bldg underpass from what I think is Quinn’s Lane onto Upper Pembroke St.

I was thinking they could have some protective function for carts etc. but they are too high off the ground.

@what? wrote:

The photo is of an old building on Pearse St beside HJLyons old offices. on the side facing onto a lane.

I have also seen them on the side of a Georgian bldg underpass from what I think is Quinn’s Lane onto Upper Pembroke St.

I was thinking they could have some protective function for carts etc. but they are too high off the ground.

Magennis Place, I think it is. The sister-in-law used to have a studio down there. The Quinn’s Lane (?) ones don’t ring a bell.

Re carts, the only protective feature I know of related to them is the ‘wheel guard’ or ‘jostle stone’- conical, cylindrical or octagonal (though never hexagonal, as far as I’m aware) stones at each side of the entrance to a laneway (and occasionally along the length of a laneway), designed to protect the corners of the flanking buildings from tight-turning vehicles.

I suspect the lumps in question are the ends of tie-bars or somesuch, but why so many of them…? Maybe it’s time for a stroll.

@ctesiphon wrote:

(though never hexagonal, as far as I’m aware)

Allbeit coarse aggregate concrete (thanks Devin), this bollard’s counterpart at the other side of the Lords portico is original. Carriage stone is a term that sums these up nicely I think.

A very interesting feature, what?. Alas the wall appears to have been fairly recently painted, so there’s no telltale rust marks to give an indication of material type. What sort of building is it – anything to indicate an industrial use?

I remember that one from the previous discussion- heptagonal examples are also very unusual. In fact, they should be rarer than hexagonal ones, I’d have thought… The quest continues!

Rivets on steel strapping me thinks

That sounds like a pretty plausible answer. ill take that.

That’s a heck of a lot of strapping!

The lumps on Quinn’s Lane leading off Upper Pembroke Street are located just at the entrance to the carriage arch.

I heard only during the week that these houses were earmarked for demolition in the late 1970s, with their ‘compromised’ structural condition cited as one of the supporting arguments. Students occupied them for over a year until they were saved.

They feature one of the best carriageways in the city.

Beautifully vaulted.

I think I’d be depressed too if I had heavy cabling tacked over my head 🙁