1727 - 297 Circular Road North, Dublin 7

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Subject: Stone Villa, 297 North Circular Road, Phibsborough, Dublin 7, D07 XD88
RPS Ref. No.: 1727 — Dublin City Record of Protected Structures (Volume 4)
NIAH Ref.: 50130294 (House, dated 1810–1830) (High)
Approx. coordinates: 53.35972, -6.27957
Overall confidence: High — corroborated by An Coimisiún Pleanála inspector's reports, a High Court judgment, and the NIAH.

Quick facts

Address	297 North Circular Road, Phibsborough, Dublin 7, D07 XD88 (detached house set to the front of a deep infill site)
RPS Ref.	1727 (Protected Structure — a house)
NIAH Ref.	50130294 — House, dated 1810–1830
Form	Three-bay, three-storey stone-faced detached house with two-storey rear return and ancillary extension
Floor area	~260 sq.m (house); marketed historically at ~220 sq.m / 2,367 sq ft
Site area	0.27 hectares
Ownership	Private — Lilacstone Limited (earlier: Independent Trustee Company Limited)
Occupancy	Unoccupied — long-term vacant
Condition	Derelict / very poor — boarded up, windows blocked with concrete blocks, site extensively overgrown
Vacant Site Register	Yes — VS/0055
Derelict Sites Register	Not listed in the current dataset
Current permission	Granted — ABP-319232-24 (32 apartments, incl. conversion of Stone Villa)

Summary

Stone Villa is an early-19th-century stone-faced villa, a protected structure (RPS 1727) standing to the front of a 0.27-hectare infill site off the North Circular Road in Phibsborough. The house has been vacant for many years and is boarded up and dilapidated, with its windows blocked up with concrete blocks and the surrounding site extensively overgrown.[1] The site has a long planning and enforcement history: it has been entered on Dublin City Council's Vacant Site Register (VS/0055), has been the subject of repeated apartment-scheme applications, and one grant was quashed by the High Court in 2023 before a fresh permission for 32 apartments (including conversion of the villa) was granted on appeal in February 2026.[2][3]

Identification

The protected structure is a former house known as Stone Villa, listed on the Dublin City Record of Protected Structures as RPS Ref. 1727.[2] (High)
The NIAH records it as a House dated 1810–1830 under NIAH Ref. 50130294.[1] (High)
The address appears in records as both "297 North Circular Road" and "Circular Road North"; these refer to the same property (Eircode D07 XD88). The villa is a detached house positioned at the front of a long, irregular site that extends north behind it — not a terrace or corner building, so there is no material address ambiguity. (High)

History & significance

Stone Villa is a 19th-century, three-storey, three-bay, stone-faced detached house with a two-storey rear return, the subject of a High Court judgment which described the house as "derelict and in very poor condition."[3] (High)