robust cast-metal rainwater gutters and downpipes and painted timber doors and windows and many good examples of iron railings and gates. 1.166 Surviving historic street furniture and paving, such as limestone steps and kerbing, iron handrails and guardrails make a significant contribution to the character of this distinctive area.
Statement of Character
1.164 There are six distinct sub-areas within the ACA. The ACA combines a strong built form with an equally strong landscape character. The landscape character benefits from an “Area of High Landscape Value” designation (see Volume 1/ Chapter Policy).
Issues
Building Typology
1.167 The principal street in the ACA, Sunday’s Well Road, is narrow without sufficient room for two cars to pass along all of its length. Lack of sufficient onstreet parking can be an issue for family occupation of houses, leading to pressure for the creation of offstreet parking with the resultant loss of front gardens. Intensification of vacant and under-used sites, for example in Sub-area D, is problematic because of poor access and integration of the sites with the already narrow surrounding road network.
1.165 The area’s buildings range from the large institutional buildings in stone and brick through larger detached houses on their own sites, semidetached and terraced houses of considerable scale to smaller houses and cottages on lanes and backstreets. Houses are typically constructed of painted plastered rubble-stone or brick walls, several with slate-hanging on exposed southern facades. Where they retain original finishes and features, they have roofs of natural stone slate,
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Cork City Draft Development Plan 2022-2028
Volume 3 I Part 1
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