Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BOTANIC ROAD, NO. 056-75 (JOHN PLAYER & CO.)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: RAYSON, THOMAS #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BOTANIC ROAD, NO. 056-75 (JOHN PLAYER & CO.)
Date: 1923
Nature: Thomas Rayson and Philip Dalton Hepworth appear to have been architects for same, probably as result of a competition. (Attr. to C.H. Ashworth by McManus;  was he the supervising architect?)
Refs: Signed dated elevation in archives of John Player & Sons, Dublin (information from Garry Miley, Limerick);  Irish Times, 13 Dec 1923 (illus.);  Ruth McManus, Crampton Built (Dublin: G. & T. Crampton, 2008), 62(illus.)

Name: ASHWORTH, CHARLES HERBERT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BOTANIC ROAD, NO. 056-75 (JOHN PLAYER & CO.)
Date: 1923-4
Nature: Factory and offices completed by Jul 1924. Contractor: G. & T. Crampton, Ballsbridge, Dublin. Large canteen 'approaching completion' in Jul 1924.. (Designs for latter approved by City Architect, Feb 192.).
Refs: Irish Times, 6 Mar,31 Jul 1924(illus.).

Name: ASHWORTH & SMITH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BOTANIC ROAD, NO. 056-75 (JOHN PLAYER & CO.)
Date: 1926;1928
Nature: Garage, bicycle house &c. , 1926. Extension to offices, 1928. Additional loading docks, 1928. Contractor: G. & T. Crampton.
Refs: IB 68, 3 Apr 1926, 261; 70, 7 Jan,18 Aug 1928, 30,714.

Name: ASHWORTH & SMITH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BOTANIC ROAD, NO. 056-75 (JOHN PLAYER & CO.)
Date: 1953
Nature: New cloakroom.
Refs: IB 95, 26 Sep 1953, 1007