Loft living in Dublin 7 with people watching aplenty from the covered terrace of this Smithfield apartment, with coffee on tap in the café below, and the red line Luas, literally up the street.
A boutique five-storey development of just 15 apartments, with a Costa coffee shop on the ground floor, this scheme is as central as you can be in Dublin 7.
Set at the river end of Smithfield Square and so close to the Luas red line Smithfield stop that you can see the tram arriving and plan your journey time from the living room.
Address: Apartment 7, Oxmanstown Lofts, Smithfield, Dublin 7, D07 PW70
Asking price: €595,000
Agent: Owen Reilly
It was designed and built by The Dublin Loft Company, Mark and Andrew Cosgrave, sons of Peter Cosgrave, a third generation of Cosgrave builders, and it sold out in weeks when it launched in 2016.
Situated on the first floor, the property is lofty, boasting 2.7 metre ceilings throughout the two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment, which is well laid out and extends to 83 square metres.
The A2 BER-rated residence opens into a large hall with the bedrooms and a Jack and Jill bathroom to the left of the entrance.
The bright and spacious dual aspect kitchen cum living room is to the right and runs the depth of the unit.
The smoked oak kitchen spans the width of the room, and there is more storage and shelving secreted behind a large sliding door, where there is also a workstation that allows you to literally close the door on the working day when working from home.
Floor-to-ceiling glazing washes this south-east facing space in light, hence the effective use of gauzy curtains that diffuse the light.
When you want to engage with all the action, you can go out to the sheltered terrace where the view overlooks the Smithfield, Utah, Teapot, a large bronze by Alan Butler.
When you want to retreat from it all, you can come back in and enjoy the veil of privacy the gauzy curtains provide.
Both the double bedrooms are generous and have en-suite bathrooms, with the main bedroom’s ensuite also opening to the hall, in a Jack and Jill shower room set-up.
The property comes with access to the communal roof terrace, where there are impressive views across central Dublin and to a secure bicycle storage room.
Grangegorman TU Dublin campus and playgrounds, Phoenix Park, the bars and eateries of Stoneybatter are a short walk away, while the Lighthouse Cinema is at the top of the square, as is The Cobblestone, famed for its weekend sessions.
There's a coffee shop on the ground floor level where you can enjoy a morning brew.
It takes about 20 minutes to walk into town.
