This Regency redbrick, reworked in part for the 21st century, on one of Dublin’s original Georgian squares, feels very like a Bridgerton address. And it comes with a key to the quad.
Bridgerton returns to our screens for season four tonight, Thursday, January 29th, on Netflix, and while the antics of the cast will likely continue to enthral, the set is very much a character in its own right with its colour palette of Bridgerton icy blues, lilacs and yellows helping to set the scenes and foreshadow changes of mood and tempo.
In real life, though, we want creature comforts alongside the period features, no matter their heritage or décor.
Address: 66 Fitzwilliam Square North, Dublin 2, D02 AT27
Asking price: €3.75 million
Agent: Lisney Sotheby’s International Realty
Formerly set out in offices number 66, Fitzwilliam Square could be just the address.
One of the last of the Georgian squares to be built in Dublin, it has been upgraded, and the works include such super prime requirements as a lift to all floors, not easy to achieve in a historic and listed house.
Built in 1822 as one of a pair, the terraced two-bay four-storey over basement property has a rusticated granite front at entrance level and a two-storey return over basement to the rear.
It has a handsome exterior that will compete with Anthony, Viscount Bridgerton, played by Jonathan Bailey, and recently voted the sexiest man alive.
It’s a house that makes an entrance.
Forming part of a continuous terrace of former townhouses lining the north side of Fitzwilliam Square and built by Clemend Codd in 1822, it has nosed granite steps that lead up to its original timber panelled door, which has brass door furniture.
The doorcase is flanked by Ionic columns, slender sidelights and voussoired granite surrounds.
It opens into a hall with wainscotting and wallpaper with strong foliage to rival the streaming hit.
An ornate fanlight separates the hall from the inner hall.
From here, there are two reception rooms, the front overlooks the square and has a marble chimney piece with a brass-surround gas fire inset.
The room at the rear of it has been partitioned and features a boxed oriel window with decorative iron balconette, similar to those on the front first floor, overlooking the garden.
The rest of the ground floor rooms have been partitioned into office-sized spaces, as are the rooms at the basement level.
These are accessed via steel steps with a decorated balustrade to the front.
Other stand-out features include Greek Ionic pilasters and columns with rondel casts inspired by Thorvaldsen’s Night and Day on the first-floor return, where the cornice features a Greek key.
A domed rooflight brings light into the room marked on the floorplan as the boardroom.
The drawing room spans the front of the house on the piano nobile. It is simply the best room in the house and has swagged curtains with pelmets and six-over-six timber sash windows.
It, along with the front reception room at the entrance level, is a room that has been staged for sale by Natalia Sutherland of Sutherland Interiors is a way that demonstrates how one might reside here.
These rooms have the kind of generous proportions that the Bridgerton production design team would layer with floral patterns, and textures underfoot by way of rugs, gilded furniture and loads more swaggy curtain treatments.
These windows can meet the decorative demands they would make.
Sutherland would line the walls with tone-on-tone damask and swag and tail the curtains.
The colour scheme would be similarly whimsical, light yellow, blues and lilacs, she suggests.
“These rooms typically had minimal furniture, some Louis 16th style furniture on tapered legs, maybe a borne settee,” something she had suggested to the owners.
“They were more for meeting people and dancing, often with a big piano."
Flame mahogany double doors lead through to an office, and much of the second and third floors are similarly appointed.
As for the bedrooms, would she go full canopy bed in terms of furnishing the accommodation?
“A modern canopy style might work,” she says.
She’s going to be easy on swags and tails in the bedroom – they would be a lot more minimal.
Agents Lisney Sotheby’s International Realty is seeking €3.75 million for the property, which is Ber exempt and listed as having five bedrooms, four bathrooms, and extending to 672 square metres.
Part of the modernisation included the linking, at basement level, of the main house to the mews to the rear of Pembroke Lane.
It extends to approximately 104 square metres in size.
Again, currently in office use, the mews offers potential to be kept as such or used as additional residential accommodation, or guest suites.
There is the added advantage of parking to the rear of the mews.
The property comes with a key to the Georgian Square, to which only residents have access.
Bridgerton, series 4, launches on Netflix tonight, Thursday, January, 29th
