"[2] A Dublin Tourism brochure claimed that it was the "longest complete Georgian thoroughfare in Europe until the 1960s, when a row of houses was replace by a modern office block.

[2] The move resulted in widespread pushback from the city's conservationists and would become a bone of contention between preservationists and the ESB for 50 years.

[4] Those in opposition to the demolition included the Irish Georgian Society, actor Micheál MacLiammóir and artist Seán Keating.

The modernist building that resulted was largely unliked in the city and was subsequently called “a brutish intrusion on a polite classical assembly”.

It was described as a “chameleon-like scheme” that is “hiding in plain view among the Georgian brick façades” by the Architects’ Journal.