Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NO. 033 (ANTRIM HOUSE)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: ENSOR, JOHN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NO. 033 (ANTRIM HOUSE)
Date: 1778?
Nature: Attr.to JE by Ferrar, GSR and Craig, but Pembroke estate map by John Roe, 1822, shows corner house as having been leased to JE and Antrim House plot as having been leased to Samuel Sproule.
Refs: Pembroke Estate maps in NLI, Acc. 2011/2/1/? or 2011/2/4/32; IB 20, 15 May 1878, 145, citing J. Ferrar, View of Dublin (1796); Georgian Society Records (1909-13), IV (1912), 81; IB 75, 6 May 1933, 362-363(illus.); Maurice Craig, Dublin 1660-1860, (1st edition, 1952), 190;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 578.

Name: ENSOR, GEORGE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NO. 033 (ANTRIM HOUSE)
Date: 1778a
Nature: GSR give design to GE and names builder as John Ensor but cf. John Roe's map of part of the Pembroke Dublin estates (1822), which shows that purchaser of lot was Samuel Sproule.
Refs: Georgian Society Records (1909-13), IV (1912), 18,81; NA, acc. 2011 (ref. 2/4/32?)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NO. 033 (ANTRIM HOUSE)
Date: 1843a
Nature: Remodelling in 'compo' of ground floor of entrance frontand addition of 'compo' window surrounds to upper windows and compo cornice and quoins, for William, 1st Baron Fitzgerald and Vesci.
Refs: Henry Fulton, 'Observations on Architects and Architecture' in Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 7 (24 Feb 1844), 97-98(illus.).