1790 – Westmoreland Street, Dublin
Leading from College Green to O’Connell street and named after John Fane, tenth Earl of Westmoreland and Lord Lieutenant 1790-94. One of the last streets to be laid out by the Wide Streets Commissioners,
Westmoreland Street Dublin
Westmoreland Street is one of many Dublin Streets named after Lords Lieutenant and named in 1801 after John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1790 to 1794.
1790s – No.7 Westmoreland St., Dublin
A Wide Street Commissioners building that was demolished to make way for offices for the Northern Fire and Life Assurance Company.
1799 – Design for Westmoreland St., Dublin
Architect: Henry Baker
Approved design for the Wide Streets Commissioner for facade treatement to Westmoreland Street. A further design was what was eventually constructed.
1800 – D’Olier & Westmoreland, Dublin
Where D’Olier and Westmoreland Streets meet the quays and Carlisle Bridge was designed as an important architectural setpiece by the Wide Streets Commissioners.
1800c – Westmoreland Street, Dublin
Three Wide Streets Commissioners buildings built on their usual narrow lots, with later additions, demolished for the Westin Hotel in the late 1990s.
1857 – Thomas Moore Statue, College St., Dublin
Sculptor: Christopher Moore
At the junction of College Street and Westmoreland Street, once stranded on a traffic island with a disused public toilet (now removed) is this statue to the Irish bard Thomas Moore.
1864 – London & Lancashire Fire & Life Insurance Companies, Dublin
A rebuilt and revised corner building on a Wide Streets Commissioners plan, on D’Olier and Westmoreland Street facing across Carlisle Bridge.
1864 – London and Lancashire Fire and Life Insurance, Dublin
Wide Streets Commissioners end of terrace building given a Victorian stucco makeover in the 1860s. Demolished for a new building for the same insurance company in the 1890s.
1866 – No.14 Westmoreland Street, Dublin
Architect: William G. Murray
Designed for the Scottish Equitable Insurance Company, hence presumedly the vague Scottish Baronial style of the building.
1870 – Nos.3-4 Westmoreland Street, Dublin
Architect: William G. Murray
Designed as the Cramer Wood Music Store, this building has fine polychromatic brickwork and stone trimmings.
