Address: The Penthouse, 116 Grafton Street, South City Centre, Dublin 2
Price: €1,950,000
Agent: Lisney Sotheby’s International Realty
Whenever you see a pupil or somebody in low-paid employment depicted residing in an incredible, city-centre condominium on TV – Monica’s condominium in Friends is a basic instance – you possibly can take it as a right that the writers stretched their poetic licence concerning what their character may realistically afford. That has in truth been the case in the case of the penthouse duplex condominium at 116 Grafton Street, which was purchased two years in the past by a New Yorker learning at Trinity College Dublin – for €1.6 million, in keeping with the Property Price Register – making it the ultimate high-end pupil pad most of us may have solely dreamed of over a lacklustre Pot Noodle.
Floor-to-ceiling home windows from the property look proper throughout to the doorway of Trinity, that means the present proprietor didn’t need to walk too far to lectures. Unless one other deep-pocketed scholar comes alongside, it’s possible this property can be purchased by an abroad purchaser as a Dublin bolt-hole; nearly all of inquiries to date have been from such folks, in keeping with Louise Kenny, the promoting agent for Lisney Sotheby’s International Realty.
Accessed from a door beside the Lush Cosmetics store entrance on Grafton Street, the primary cool function in regards to the penthouse is that it’s accessed from a carry that may open to the decrease ground, to the bedrooms, or the highest ground, immediately into the residing area. The high ground is vivid and open plan, guide ended by two out of doors terraces. The kitchen is within the centre of the area, with picket models, stainless-steel counter tops and a big rectangular roof mild overhead. An inset is reduce out of the kitchen splashback so you possibly can gaze out on the comings and goings at Trinity as you whip up a meal.
Toward the rear of the ground is a breakfast bar in opposition to the wall, constituted of a mahogany railway sleeper with industrial-style pipes as brackets. There can be a visitor WC right here. A rear terrace, the place the decking wants some repairing in locations, is a pleasant spot for a barbecue with views of the Spire and the northside of town. To the entrance of the ground is the intense residing space, which opens on to a second terrace overlooking Grafton Street that has faux-grass underfoot and ornate columns of the building’s facade. It needs to be mentioned, the structure of the home would entice probably the most curmudgeonly of residents to throw a large social gathering.
If you don’t fancy taking the carry, there are stairs behind the kitchen resulting in the decrease ground. The most important bed room is a large area to the entrance with a romantic arched sash window out to the entrance and a smaller window to the aspect, so you possibly can nonetheless regulate Trinity. There are picket flooring underfoot and excessive ceilings making the area really feel enormous. There is an enormous en suite bathe room, with marble-effect tiles all through, and a dressing space with built-in storage.
The second bed room to the rear can be en suite and has a small balcony to the rear which might look nice stuffed with crops. On high of the en suite bathe room there’s a free-standing bathtub within the bed room, so those that fancy watching against the law drama whereas having a soak are properly catered for.
Extending to 168sq m (1,808sq ft) with a C1 Ber, this high-end providing on Dublin’s premier procuring road is in the marketplace by means of Lisney Sotheby’s International Realty, searching for €1.95 million.
