With the cool, elegantly confident look of an appreciated space, the entrance hall to Pembroke House makes it clear that the designer/ vendor has put his heart and his dreams into what is a thoughtfully lovely refurbishment.
The house was built in 1860, in what was then Pembroke Street as a standalone merchant’s house. The area, once known as the Golden Sands of Irishtown, was a seaside resort in the mid- 19th century.
The vendor is selling after 20 years to fulfil another dream: he bought the nearby Irishtown Gospel Hall from Nama and plans to use the proceeds from this sale on a refurbishment that will put the hall to community use.
Pembroke House is a two-storey “upside-down” house with three en suite bedrooms on the ground floor, large sittingroom and kitchen/diningroom on the first floor, and floor space of 142sq m (1,528sq ft). Lisney is asking €595,000 for the private treaty sale.
A rear, enclosed courtyard has 12ft-high sheltering walls. There is a ground floor roof garden and permission for a terrace on the flat roof above the sittingroom.
Number 5’s bright, 35ft-long marble- floored hallway runs from the front to rear of the house. It has a 12ft-high ceiling and is only a hint of things to come.
Impressions are in the detail: in the bespoke woodwork everywhere and handmade sash windows rolling smooth as silk; in the identical bathrooms off each bedroom; in the stone and yellowy- cream palette; in rear windows and glass doors filling both floors with light; in the wide-planked French oak flooring and high ceilings throughout.
The first floor landing leads directly into the gracious and surprisingly large front facing sittingroom, with four long sash windows and a marble fireplace. The rear kitchen/dining room has hardwood worktops and a French door opening to a Romeo and Juliet balcony.
A rear bedroom has a glass wall on to the courtyard, another a French window onto the same courtyard. A third, front-facing bedroom has sash windows. The next door Beach Tavern pub has recently changed hands and been completely refurbished; its exterior colour matches Number 5’s.
