The Timeline.

1661

The street is laid out

Francis Aungier, first Earl of Longford, lays out a new street on twenty acres bought from the dissolved Carmelite priory of the Whitefriars - at seventy feet across, the widest thoroughfare in Dublin.

1670–1725

Number twenty-three rises

The oldest of the three is built on a plan borrowed from Restoration London - plain brick, deep rooms, tall chimneys.

1720s

A Dutch Billy at twenty-two

A rare Dutch Billy joins the terrace, home for a time to Alderman King and to the sculptor John Van Nost the Younger.

c. 1760

Number twenty-four, Georgian proper

A grand Georgian townhouse of the type that became the building block of the city fills the gap on the terrace.

19th–20th c.

A working street

Subdivided, refaced, tenanted, shopfronted - a stationer's circulating library, a horse-trader, Fanagan's undertakers, a soccer shop. All three houses become Protected Structures.

2022

The restoration begins

Marlin Group takes the houses on, with Cantrell & Crowley Architects and Lotts Architecture leading a two-year restoration.

2024

The Dolphin reopens

The doors open again in the autumn - twenty-four rooms, three houses, one street, and very little else.