A NEW course being offered by the Irish Georgian Society will tell people how to care for their historic houses, whether they are Edwardian artisan dwellings, Victorian redbricks or grand Georgian townhouses on city squares. The course, “Conserving Your Dublin Townhouse”, starts next month.
Lectures by conservation experts will provide practical information on the care and conservation of Dublin’s historic houses along with an understanding of their significance.
Subjects include the planning implications of owning a protected structure, grant aids available and lectures on everything from preventative maintenance, caring for the bricks, ironwork, plasterwork, paint, windows, wallpaper and gardens of historic houses.
The course will also cover energy efficiency and practical matters like “Keeping the water out and what to do when the water gets in”.
The conservation experts who will give the course include architect Jacqui Donnelly of the Department of the Environment’s architectural heritage unit, Nessa Roche, the unit’s adviser and author of a book on the conservation of historic windows as well as historic gardens consultant Belinda Jupp.
The 12-week lunchtime course starts on Tuesday, February 2nd at 63 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, and costs €10 per lecture or €100 for the whole course.
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