Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, SANDYCOVE, SANDYCOVE POINT, GERAGH

Name: LEWIS, ERNEST WAMSLEY #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, SANDYCOVE, SANDYCOVE POINT, GERAGH
Date: 1934
Nature:

Preliminary design in International Modern style, subsequently modified by Scott, who retained tiered, curved west end and 1st-floor secondary entrance.

Refs: Photograph of signed and dated perspective view  and plans in Dorchester Museum, P23.276 (photocopy in IAA, donated by Mrs P. Bollam, Weymouth, Sep 2008, repr. in Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture: Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009, 45); a note signed by Lewis on back of photograph reads: 'This house of reinforced concrete is being built on the coast of Ireland.   The client does not wish it to be published in the general press but it would be available for your booklet or portfolio. The site is on a rocky promontory with views across the bay to the South.   I would let you have two dull surface prints of this for your portfolio if you let me know.' A reverse image of the same perspective view is published in John O'Regan & Nicola Dearey, eds., Michael Scott Architect in (casual) conversation with Dorothy Walker (1995), 89.

Name: SCOTT, MICHAEL JOHN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, SANDYCOVE, SANDYCOVE POINT, GERAGH
Date: 1937-38
Nature: International Modern style house for himself.  (Modification of design by Ernest Wamsley Lewis.)
Refs: IB 80, 1 Oct 1938, 835(illus.); Architectural Design, Jul 1947, 183(illus.); Sean Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 201(illus.),202; John O'Regan & Nicola Dearey, eds., Michael Scott Architect in (casual) conversation with Dorothy Walker (1995), 87-93(illus.),233;  Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture:  Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009), 45,49,50-51(illus.).