It survives in the record even after the building it once belonged to has gone, fixing a structure in time that no longer exists in space. In Dublin's south city, that is precisely the situation with a former Dutch Billy noted by Walsh in 1973, a building whose physical presence has been lost but whose architectural identity remains traceable through the historical literature.

Dutch Billies, as they were known colloquially in Dublin, were a distinctive house type that became fashionable in the city during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Characterised by their curved or stepped gabled rooflines facing the street, they arrived partly through the influence of Dutch and Flemish building traditions, and partly through the influx of Huguenot craftsmen and merchants who settled in Dublin following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. The style gave certain Dublin streetscapes a notably continental appearance, though the type fell out of favour as the Georgian terraced house came to dominate. Walsh, writing in 1973, recorded this particular example at pages 64 to 65 of his study, noting the 1721 date stone as evidence of the building's origins. That date places it squarely within the period when Dutch Billy construction was still active in Dublin, before the form began to disappear from new builds later in the eighteenth century.

Because the structure itself no longer stands, there is nothing to visit in the conventional sense. What remains is archival, a record in Walsh's work and the intriguing detail of a date stone that presumably survived the building's demolition, or was at least observed before it was lost entirely. For anyone interested in Dublin's pre-Georgian urban fabric, the south city retains fragmentary traces of this earlier building culture, occasionally visible in surviving gables or absorbed into later structures. Local architectural surveys and the Irish Architectural Archive are the most practical resources for tracing what documentation exists.