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CRH plc MASTERPLAN
Belgard Castle, Clondalkin,
Dublin 22
Masterplan 1999 - 2000
Client:
CRH plc
Project Managers and
Consulting Engineers:
Clifton Scannell Emerson Associates
Belgard Castle is a beautiful example of an old Irish manor house on the outskirts of Dublin. The manor house was built on the side of the original tower house. Behind the manor house is the main yard with the original stores and servants’ quarters accessed through an arched gateway.
The servants quarters has its own yard that links to the stable yard with the original mews and stable buildings. Behind the mews building is the farmyard while beyond the stable building is the walled flower garden.
CRH have been very respectful of the existing buildings and now fully occupy the original manor house, the servants quarters and the mews. The idea of the masterplan is to identify a means of providing additional accommodation in the future within the form of the existing complex.
The immediate requirement is to locate a major new office building in the complex. This building will become the main focus for traffic to the complex. While respecting the courtyard form of the existing complex, we decided to amalgamate the yard at the rear of the ‘servants’’ quarters and the ‘stable yard’ to form a courtyard for this new building to front onto.
The new building fronts onto the new enlarged courtyard, on the site of some previous farm buildings which have been removed. A pattern of future development is suggested by the side of the new building which forms a second side of a future new square behind the existing stable building. This new square can be completed by new buildings on its other two sides.
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