Dutch Billies

Neutronale

Prior to the Georgian house style fad, another housing style had predominated in Irish cities and towns, Dutch Billies.

Dutch Billies, Nicholas Street, Limerick, c. 1845

The origins of Dublin’s Dutch Billies lie in the late 17th century when the city under went a period of rapid urban regeneration. This corresponds to a time of political and social stability, which followed the restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 and the re-establishment of English control with return of the Duke of Ormonde as viceroy in 1666. It saw an extensive re-development of the city, especially to the north and west, with the realignment of medieval streets, the laying out of new suburban blocks such as Smithfield in Oxmanstown, the construction of quay walls and new bridges across the Liffey as well as a vast programme of reclamation from the river (after Cryherhall 2006).

http://irisharchaeology.ie/2012/03/dublins-forgotten-buildings-the-dutch-billy/

A couple of nice examples in Wexfords' Bull-ring:

http://maps.google.ie/maps?q=bullring+wexford&hl=en&ll=52.340031,-6.462549&spn=0.000929,0.002642&sll=53.383328,-8.217773&sspn=0.928862,2.705383&t=h&hq=bullring&hnear=Wexford,+County+Wexford&z=19&layer=c&cbll=52.340118,-6.462566&panoid=EmxxPHn__HKIZxJAL-hKzQ&cbp=12,80.61,,0,-47.15

pedroeibar1

There is a years-old thread on these over on Archiseek (with about 250k views and 700 posts)

telekon

pedroeibar1 wrote: »

There is a years-old thread on these over on Archiseek (with about 250k views and 700 posts)

I spent an entire weekend last year sometime going through that thread. I loved when posters would hunt down surviving, but heavily disguised dutch billies in Dublin. The narrowing proportions of the windows (typically three on first floor, two on the second floor) and the centrally positioned chimney-stacks are always the tell tale signs of a reconfigured dutch billy in the georgian/victorian periods.

crockholm

I prefer the "billies" much more than the often bland parapet finishing that came with the Georgian style,and without wishing to derail the thread too much, but are there many more surviving examples of 17th century pre-Georgian (okay,all 17th C is pre georgian,but pre queen Anne style)other than Kilmainham and Bellevue House?.


What did Dublin look like from 1650-1700?