3069/19/X1

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EXT. OF DURATION : PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The proposed development will comprise the conservation, repair and adaption of the protected structure at 2-3 Mary's Abbey, Dublin 7 to facilitate a change of use from artist studios at first, second and third floors, shop at ground floor and storage at basement level of the protected structure to museum and ancillary use at ground first second and third floors and storage at basement level of the protected structure and the demolition of existing structures to the rear of the protected structure to allow the development of new ancillary museum building on lands to the rear of the protected structure as follows: 1. Buildings to the rear of the site which are not protected structures are to be demolished, all boundary party walls to be maintained. 2. The construction of a new building on lands to the rear of the existing protected structure as the new premises of the National Leprechaun Museum, two storeys in height to an overall height of 13.5m (exclusive of roof mounted PV panels), landscaping works to internal courtyard lightwell. Roof to new building at rear to be a combination of flat semi intensive green roof with PV panels and a pitched reflective insulated metal deck roof with brick slip cladding to external perimeter walls and roof top plant with louvered enclosure. 3. Structural intervention works to stabilise the building fabric of the protected structure. 4. Alterations to rear facade of protected structure at ground, first and second floors to facilitate new escape and access stairs to facilitate access from garden, to repair and reinstate original windows, to dismantle and re-build destabilised segment of wall at top floor level, reinstatement of cast iron rain water goods. 5. Repairs to the roof, gutters, rear eaves and front parapet of the protected structure. 6. Works to the front facade of the protected structure at all levels comprising brick, stone, render and jointing cleaning and repair, removal of existing modern shopfront and installation of new shopfront and external articulated shutters, repairs to all existing metal framed windows above ground level, dismantling and re-building destabilised segment of parapet at top floor level. 7 Removal of modern interventions to the interior of the protected structure including partitions, stud walling, false ceilings and modern stairs and installation of new partitions, doors and lift shaft to facilitate proposed new museum use.

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2-3, Mary's Abbey, Dublin 7, D07 X6R6