Seaview Terrace was begun in the 1830s as a townhouse development on what was then a country lane in Old Merrion. It was a time when Shelbourne Road was better known as Artichoke Road, Belmont Avenue basked in the name Coldblow Lane and Simmonscourt was just as likely to be called Smotts Court. Today Seaview Terrace is part of Nutley Road. Architecturally it is a very Georgian-style development in a neighbourhood dominated by Victorian and post-Victorian houses.