- Address
- 32 Capel Street, Dublin 1
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 50010431
Metro Tools & Hardware
32 Capel Street, Dublin 1, O'Connell Street
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Metro Tools & Hardware
Metro Tools & Hardware is one of 450 buildings in O'Connell Street the National Inventory rates Regional. Metro Tools & Hardware dates from 1800–1840. 164 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
Capel Street was laid out in 1680 by Humphrey Jervis as a prestigious residential street and named after Arthur Capel the Earl of Essex. By 1800 the street had become one of the city’s primary commercial thoroughfares and the current plot ratios reflect the buildings of that period.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 50010431 · CC BY 4.0 · Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
NIAHRead its National Inventory recordThe full description and appraisal, the survey photo and the map · 50010431↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 10 minutes
O'Connell Street · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Metro Tools & HardwareStart here
- 2New Star Sichuan Style Chinese RestaurantRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 3Little Green Street GalleryRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 4
Saint Mary's ChurchNational rating (NIAH) · 200 m on - 5National Leprechaun Museum/Ben Dunne GymRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
80 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Show the other 62
Other recorded houses around O'Connell Street
“House, 221-224 Parnell Street, Dublin” in Parnell Square is the nearest, at 200 m. The list holds 8, all within 40 km and photographed.
Questions about Metro Tools & Hardware
Is Metro Tools & Hardware on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 50010431).
Can you visit Metro Tools & Hardware?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Metro Tools & Hardware built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1800–1840.
Is Metro Tools & Hardware protected?
Being on the National Inventory or the Sites and Monuments Record is a record, not protection by itself: buildings are protected by their council’s Record of Protected Structures, which each council keeps and no national open list gathers, so this page can’t say which are on it.
Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata (CC0).
Sources: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (buildingsofireland.ie). Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
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