PROJECT SUMMARY

This project will involve the construction of 18 residential units on the grounds of the historic Hollybrook House along Naas Road in Dublin.

A house named Hollybrook appears on this site the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1844, and Griffith’s Valuation c.1850 records a house, offices, mill and land leased to George Pim. The valley of the Camac River to the east was the siting of a number of mills in the past. However, the character of this house is later, with the machine-made red brick, bay windows and coloured glass all typical of the late Victorian or Edwardian era. The form and symmetrical proportions create a pleasing elevation. The ornate stained glass windows and decorative door to the entrance porch add artistic interest, and the early windows and doors create a patina of age. Hollybrook House predates the large-scale residential and industrial development of the Naas Road and Bluebell in the mid twentieth century.