- Address
- 20-21 Parliament Street, Essex Quay, Dublin 2
- Type
- Office
- NIAH reg. no.
- 50020001
Sunlight Chambers
20-21 Parliament Street, Essex Quay, Dublin 2, Temple Bar
About Sunlight Chambers
The National Inventory rates Sunlight Chambers Regional, one of 581 in Temple Bar. Its record dates Sunlight Chambers to 1900–1910. 276 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
This prominent and decorative building was built for the Lever Brothers company, to designs by Edward Ould. He was an English architect responsible for a number of buildings in Port Sunlight, the Lever Brothers model village in Merseyside.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 50020001 · 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 · 50020001↗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
Temple Bar · about 400 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Sunlight ChambersStart here
- 2Bison BarRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 3The NorsemanRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 4Café Irie / Lucy’s Vintage Basement / Lucy’s LoungeRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 5O'Shea's Irish RestaurantRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
KC Peaches (shop / retail outlet)Regional rating (NIAH)300 mOysters at the Temple Bar Trading Company/ The Temple Bar Trading Company / The Locksmith ApartmentsRegional rating (NIAH)300 mDublin Castle (State Apartments)National rating (NIAH)300 mDublin Castle (Record Tower)National rating (NIAH)300 mDublin Castle (State Apartments Entrance Block)National rating (NIAH)300 mChapel RoyalNational rating (NIAH)300 m62 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Show the other 44
Public buildings on the record near Temple Bar
“Bank, 1 Ormond Quay Upper, Capel Street, Dublin 7” in O'Connell Street is the nearest, at 100 m. 8 like it are within 40 km, each with a photo.
Questions about Sunlight Chambers
Is Sunlight Chambers on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 50020001).
Can you visit Sunlight Chambers?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Sunlight Chambers built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1900–1910.
Is Sunlight Chambers 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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