A four-storey mid-terrace house on a plot of roughly eight metres wide, rising to a parapet just nine metres high, it compresses an entire floor of habitation into a height that later Georgian buildings would devote to a single storey. That compression is not a sign of poverty or neglect; it is a signature of its era, a moment in Dublin's built history that was largely swallowed by the more familiar red-brick confidence of the eighteenth century.

According to research by the Dublin Civic Trust, the building dates to around 1670, placing its construction in the decade following the Restoration of the monarchy and during a period of considerable urban expansion in Dublin. The late seventeenth century townhouse typology it represents was common across the city before successive waves of rebuilding erased most examples. The evidence is readable in the fabric itself: the roof form, the diminutive proportions of the three-bay façade, and the notably low floor-to-ceiling heights all point to conventions that predate the taller, more spacious domestic architecture that would come to define the city's streetscape in the following century. Three bays, meaning three vertical divisions of windows across the front, was a standard arrangement for a respectable urban household of the period, but the overall scale here speaks to a time before Dublin's ambitions had fully expanded.

The building sits within the south city streetscape, where it functions as something of an accidental survivor, its age legible mainly to those who know what to look for. The proportional differences become apparent when standing at street level and comparing the floor heights against neighbouring buildings; the earlier structure reads as noticeably compressed. The three-bay arrangement and the parapet line are the clearest external indicators. No special access is required to observe the exterior, and the surrounding streets reward a slow walk, particularly for anyone interested in how centuries of piecemeal development have left occasional traces of older urban fabric embedded within a predominantly later cityscape.