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Terraced two-bay three-storey house over basement, built c.1790, with timber shopfront to ground floor. Built as single building with neighbouring property to southwest. M-profile pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and chimneystack over party wall and having clay chimney pots. Roof set behind parapet wall with granite coping. Machine-cut red brick facade, laid in Flemish bond. Square-headed window openings with brick reveals and voussoirs, granite sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns. Shopfront has original fluted console brackets and moulded cornice, and plain pilasters and fascia. Display window has paned over-light and mesh protection, and doorway has steel roller shutter. Door opens onto granite flagstone. Steel panel over basement area opening.

Amiens Street, formerly The Strand, was renamed in memory of Viscount Amiens, Earl of Aldborough, whose mansion is located on nearby Portland Row. This terraced house, one of a pair, on the north side of Amiens Street appears to have been constructed during the late eighteenth century. The facade's machine-cut brick, typical of the late nineteenth century, represents the advances in building technology of the Victorian period and such brick, with its smooth and uniform finish, could be produced quickly and on a mass scale. This differed greatly from the production of handmade bricks which had been used in construction before that age. The house and its pair have modest timber shopfronts, which are becoming a rare feature in a rapidly changing city. The premises was run by Thomas Clarke, Easter Rising leader (executed May 1916) as a tobacconist shop from c.1907-c.1911, at which time he moved his shop to Great Britain Street, now Parnell Street.