That a structure of this age endures at all on a busy urban thoroughfare is, in itself, a small surprise. The street has long since shed its exclusive character, absorbed into the ordinary commercial life of the city, and the house sits within that changed landscape without announcement.

The street's origins are precisely recorded. In 1661, Francis Aungier, First Earl of Longford, laid out the thoroughfare as a high-class residential suburb, and over the following two decades a sequence of prestigious town houses rose along it to accommodate bishops, earls, and senior military figures. The architecture of the period leaned towards stone and brick construction, with high-pitched roofs and dormer windows, and facades finished with either plain or decorative gables. The house on Aungier Street is mentioned in deeds dating to the seventeenth century, according to Freddie O'Dwyer of the Office of Public Works, and was included in the Register of Historic Monuments on 24 November 1992, a designation that acknowledges its significance within a city not always generous in preserving its older fabric.

Aungier Street runs south from the junction with Wexford Street and Cheevers Lane, not far from St Stephen's Green, and is easily reached on foot from the city centre. The street is a working one, lined with shops and businesses, so the house does not present itself as an obvious visitor destination. What rewards attention is the detail, the roofline, the proportions, the traces of an earlier building culture visible beneath the accumulated changes of three centuries. Those with an interest in the domestic architecture of early modern Dublin, or in the way a city preserves and obscures its own past simultaneously, will find the street worth a slow walk.