Restored in 1979-85 by Costello, Murray & Beaumont. Remodelled as the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 1990, by Shay Cleary Architects.

The street was laid out by Luke Gardiner in 1729-30. Originally a single five-bay house. Built by Nathaniel Clements for Henry, 8th Earl of Thomond (d.1741). First resident (in 1743) was Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Earl of Bessborough.

Newcomen Bank (Dublin City Council Rates Office): relieving arch

Converted to government offices in 1989-91 by K. Unger, D. L. Byers and A. Rolfe of the Office of Public Works.

Restored in 1979-85 by Costello, Murray & Beaumont. Remodelled as the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 1990, by Shay Cleary Architects.

Custom House: rear elevation (detail)

Photograph c.1978.

Royal College of Surgeons: façade (detail)

Custom House: façade (detail)

Replica of early C18 Dutch Billy style house. Moved during early C20 road widening.

Price's Medical Hall: general view

Rotunda Hospital: detail of colonnade

The house was built by Luke Gardiner and leased respectively to Henry Boyle, Earl of Shannon. Design in part attributed to Sir Edward Lovett Pearce.

No. 86 St Stephen's Green now forms part of Newman House (together with No. 85 St Stephen's Green). It was built for Richard Chapel Whaley from 1765. The design of the house and its stuccoed interiors are attributed to Robert West. A major conservation and restoration project undertaken in 1989-93.

The house was built in c1760 for Usher St George, created Lord St George in 1763. The plasterwork is attributed to Robert West.

Part of the extensive Gardiner Estate instigated by Luke Gardiner in the 1720s. Mountjoy Square first planned and laid out in 1787. Building began in 1789.

Custom House: detail of portico

Remodelled in 1987 as HQ of the Eastern Health Board by Arthur Gibney & Partners. The East front was the original entrance front.

Also known as Doneraile House. Built in 1753 to designs by John Ensor for the Hon. Hayes St Leger, later 4th Viscount Doneraile.

St Ann (C. of I.): façade

Royal Exchange (City Hall): north front

St Stephen's Green laid out as residential square by Dublin Corporation in 1664. Largely built during the first half of the C18. No. 17 built 1776-79 by Gustavus Hume for Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown. Decorated by the Dublin stuccodore Michael Stapleton: drawings for the interiors form part of the Stapleton Collection at the National Library of Ireland.

Formerly the Standard Life Assurance Company. Converted to a bank in 1952; lower storey rebuilt in 1970s.

House built on ground leased to James Higgins, bricklayer c1768-9. Formerly part of the Mount Eccles estate.