Number 87, on the south side of the Green, dates from 1730, making it one of the earlier surviving residential structures in this part of Dublin city, a period when the square was still being shaped into the formal urban set piece it would eventually become.

The date is recorded by Maurice Craig in his 1969 architectural survey, a foundational reference for anyone tracing the built fabric of Georgian Dublin. By 1730, St Stephen's Green had already been enclosed and laid out as a public amenity for some decades, following its formalisation in the late seventeenth century, but the surrounding streets were still filling in with townhouses as the city expanded southward. A house from this date sits at the earlier edge of that development, preceding the great wave of Georgian construction that would define the area through the middle and later decades of the eighteenth century.

The Green is freely accessible and well served by public transport, sitting at the terminus of the Luas Green Line and within easy walking distance of Grafton Street. Number 87 sits along the south terrace, and while the exterior is what a visitor can reasonably expect to observe from the footpath, it rewards a moment's attention precisely because it does not announce its age. The Georgian streetscape here can appear deceptively uniform, but small variations in proportion, fenestration, and brick detail distinguish earlier buildings from those that followed a generation or two later. A copy of Craig's work, widely held in Irish libraries, remains useful background for anyone interested in reading the architecture of the Green with a more informed eye.