- Address
- Trinity College, Dublin 2
- Type
- Faculty building
- NIAH reg. no.
- 50020412
Physics Building
Trinity College, Dublin 2, St Stephen's Green
About Physics Building
Physics Building is one of 824 buildings in St Stephen's Green the National Inventory rates Regional. Physics Building dates from 1900–1910. 232 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
Built in 1904/5 to designs of William Cecil Marshall, this building was funded by a gift from Viscount Iveagh. It continued the tradition of freestanding, stone, subject-specific buildings which was begun by Deane & Woodward’s Museum Building.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 50020412 · 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 · 50020412↗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
St Stephen's Green · about 400 m on foot, as the crow flies















34 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Show the other 16
Near St Stephen's Green: more buildings on the record
All 8 are pictured and within 40 km. Start with Bewley's Oriental Cafés in Temple Bar, 600 m away.








Questions about Physics Building
Is Physics Building on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 50020412).
Can you visit Physics Building?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Physics Building built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1900–1910.
Is Physics Building 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).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
