Between 1894 and 1901, houses were built from a charitable trust of Edward Cecil Guinness for the labouring poor - three parallel ranges of mostly one and two-room flats with narrow courts between.

[3] The 1936 Ordnance Survey map shows the street as it is today ending at the Camden row junction.

Dublin Institute of Technology occupies the lower half of this side of the street with the National Optometry Centre.

Opposite these are the two-story red brick terrace houses built around 1910 and feature granite windows and door lintels.

At the Heytesbury Street end lies two stone buildings, one on both the east and west sides.