The townhouse enabled him and his family to stay there when they were visiting from their Powerscourt Estate in Enniskerry, County Wicklow.

The house was designed by Robert Mack and dates from between 1771 and 1774, and has been characterised as the "last-gasp Palladianism on a grand scale on a narrow street".

[2] Within a couple of years of the abolition of the Parliament of Ireland, the viscount sold this Dublin residence since he received his seat now at the House of Lords in London.

Many other peers also sold their palatial Dublin residences, which led to an economic and cultural decline of the city.

The journalist Frank McDonald described the conversion of the building as "imaginative" and "the city's smartest shopping centre".