Tour of Townhouse

This townhouse at 20 Dominic Street is the grandest in a terrace of five surviving Georgian houses to the south of the much later Saint Saviour’s Church, and terminating the row. It was built by the stuccodore, Robert West, on a double plot and sold to Robert Marshall in 1760. The stairhall is one of the most famous and photographed stuccoed interiors of the eighteenth century, executed by an as yet unknown stuccodore. This accomplished interior is disguised behind an austere façade that is enlivened by the finely made pedimented Doric doorcase. Formerly one of the finest Georgian streetscapes in north Dublin, the majority of the street was demolished in the 1950s and 1960s. The land was bought by a physician, Christopher Dominick, in 1709, but the land was not developed until after his death in 1743 by his widow.