Built in 2006 and designed by O’Mahony Pike architects, 99 Hanover Dock is a penthouse that comes with 80sq m of outside space that boasts views of the river Liffey from one balcony and Grand Canal Dock and the Poolbeg towers from its rooftop terrace.
The modest entrance hall belies the fact that every room is light-filled. The three-bedroom property, 125 sq m (1345sq ft) in size, has floor-to- ceiling windows throughout but you can’t tell that when you stand in the hall.
The first of the property’s two reception rooms is to the end on the left. Open-plan, it comprises a living dining room and has a balcony that wraps around it with views of the Liffey, where you could, on a fine day, monitor the river traffic.
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Off it is a very small kitchen, perfect for New-York-style living where no one cooks at home; and, while this may suit some prospective buyers, a simple way to rethink this set-up would be to open up the two spaces and bring the kitchen out into the main room. A boiler, housed in a small partition between the two areas areas could be moved outside, something other residents have done.
The apartment’s three double bedrooms are on this floor. All face the rising sun and benefit from being gorgeously bright thanks to the wall of glass that is each room’s main feature.
Each has step-up access to a terrace and from these you can see the chimneys and dockland landmarks including a rough patch of land that will, in time, under the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, become a green space, based on the theme of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, called Chocolate Park.
A stairs leads up to the best room, an airy eyrie, a lounge lit on three sides by glass walls currently dressed in blinds that blinker the experience.
Doors on two sides lead out to private terraces, the larger of which has a westerly aspect and an automated, retractable canopy for those rare days when the sun splits the stones. The only drawback is a large air-conditioning unit that separates one terrace from the other.
The property comes with two parking spaces and is accessed via Forbes Street, the thoroughfare that links Grand Canal Square to Sir John Rogerson’s Quay.
Management fees are currently €2,700 annually. The penthouse is asking €695,000 through agent Owen Reilly.
