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1710–1730
Address 8 Eustace Street, Dublin 2 Type House NIAH reg. no. 50020074 No photo of it yet Regional rating (NIAH) The Merchant House / Basic Instinct 8 Eustace Street, Dublin 2, Temple Bar
Rated Regional on the National Inventory One of 581 rated Regional in Temple Bar
H HouseB Built 1710–1730
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About About The Merchant House / Basic Instinct The Merchant House / Basic Instinct is one of 581 buildings in Temple Bar the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates The Merchant House / Basic Instinct to 1710–1730. 481 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
This former house is among the oldest upstanding buildings on Eustace Street. Rocque's map indicates the site of this building and its neighbour to the south in single use.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 50020074 · CC BY 4.0 · Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
NIAH Read its National Inventory record The full description and appraisal, the survey photo and the map · 50020074 ↗ Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
The record
Rating Regional rating (NIAH)
Built 1710–1730
Type House
Use Guest house/b&b
Of special interest for ARCHITECTURAL, SOCIAL
Address 8 Eustace Street, Dublin 2
Where Temple Bar, Dublin Visit Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 10 minutes Temple Bar · about 400 m on foot, as the crow flies
1 2 3 4 5 © OpenStreetMap contributors Around it 130 within 150 m Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
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House, 12 Grafton Street, Dublin 2 St Stephen's Green · 400 m away
House, 33 Grafton Street, Anne Street South, Dublin 2 St Stephen's Green · 500 m away
House, 3 Parnell Street, Dublin O'Connell Street · 600 m away
House, 221-224 Parnell Street, Dublin Parnell Square · 600 m away
House, 220 Parnell Street, Britain Place, Dublin 1 Parnell Square · 600 m away
Green Street Courthouse Phibsborough · 700 m away
House, 1A Talbot Street, Dublin 1 O'Connell Street · 800 m away
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Questions about The Merchant House / Basic Instinct Is The Merchant House / Basic Instinct on the National Inventory? Yes: rated Regional (record 50020074).
Can you visit The Merchant House / Basic Instinct? Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was The Merchant House / Basic Instinct built? Its National Inventory record dates it to 1710–1730.
Is The Merchant House / Basic Instinct 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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