Powerscourt House, Dublin
| Powerscourt House | |
| County Dublin | |
|---|---|
 Main entrance of Powerscourt House, Dublin | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | O15803382 |
| Location: | 53°20’32"N, 6°15’43"W |
| Town: | Dublin |
| History | |
| For: | Richard Wingfield, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt |
| Town house | |
| Information | |
| Condition: | Converted to retail |
| Website: | powerscourtcentre.ie |
Powerscourt House is the former Dublin townhouse of the Viscounts Powerscourt, It is stands on South William Street.
The house was built in the eighteenth century for Richard Wingfield, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt (1730-1788)[1] who, as a member of the Irish House of Lords, required a town residence in order to carry out his parliamentary duties and his social engagements in town. He and his family resided here when in Dublin, though their chief seat was Powerscourt House on the Powerscourt Estate in Enniskerry, County Wicklow.
Within a couple of years after the abolition of the Parliament of Ireland, the viscount sold this Dublin residence since he received his seat now at the House of Lords in London. Many other peers also sold their palatial Dublin residences, which led to an economic and cultural decline of the city.
The house was bought by the Crown for government purposes, for £15,000[2] and between 1811 and 1835 the Stamp Office, where impressed stamp duty newspaper stamps, a form of revenue stamp were applied to newspapers, journals and periodical, was located in Powerscourt House.[3]
Powerscourt House is now a shopping centre, known as the Powerscourt Centre.[1]
Main staircase
Ceiling of staircase
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Powerscourt Centre: Historic Shopping Centre in Elegant Georgian House
- ↑ Wright, George Newenham (1825). An historical guide to the city of Dublin. Dublin: Four Courts Press. pp. 167-8. https://books.google.fr/books?id=FgGFAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA167.
- ↑ O'Neill, Charles Patrick (1978). Newspaper Stamps of Ireland. Enniskillen: Watergate Press. pp. 9.
