Henrietta Street: Dublin's first and grandest Georgian street
The earliest Georgian houses in the city, the tenement at No. 14, and the King's Inns. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. King Street / Bolton Street approach
Come up from Jervis through the markets and aim for the Bolton Street corner. The approach is ordinary, almost shabby, which is the point — Henrietta Street arrives without warning.

2. Henrietta Street, lower end
Stop at the bottom and look up the cobbled slope. Built from the 1720s, these are the oldest Georgian houses in Dublin and the template for everything that followed. The doorways get grander as you climb.

3. 14 Henrietta Street
The one house to go inside. A single Georgian townhouse that became a tenement holding a hundred people in the 1900s, now a museum that tells both lives. Book ahead; the guided hour is the best history lesson in the north city.

4. The King's Inns
Gandon's last great Dublin building closes the top of the street like a stage set. The barristers' society still trains here, so the lawns aren't always open — but the Henrietta Street gateway and the cupola read perfectly from the cobbles.

5. Constitution Hill / Broadstone
Drop down the far side past the King's Inns gardens toward Broadstone. The old railway terminus here, a great Egyptian-revival hulk, is now a transport depot — look for the colonnade as you pass.

6. Broadstone Gate, Blessington Street Basin
A two-minute walk on lands you at the Basin, a hidden reservoir-turned-park the locals call 'the secret garden'. Sit by the water before the Luas; it's the calm after the cobbles.

Henrietta Street: Dublin's first and grandest Georgian street