A Liffeyside penthouse with a modern interior offers fine views of the city, writes Orna Mulcahy, Property Editor
A penthouse apartment with extraordinary views across Dublin from its lofty livingroom will attract true city dwellers to Longmeadows, a Liffeyside development on Conyngham Road in Dublin 8 built by Capel Developments about four years ago.
Gunne is asking €675,000 by private treaty for number 62, the seventh floor two-bedroom apartment which was bought by its architect owners in shell condition and fitted out in a light contemporary style with a gleaming white and stainless steel kitchen, minimalist bathroom and shower room and a striking fossil patterned limestone floor.
The apartment with private lift access has a 98 sq m (1,060 sq ft) interior that opens onto a further 40 sq m (430 sq ft) of balcony space.
Floor-to-ceiling windows in the corner livingroom look down the Liffey towards the city centre, and across the canopy of trees of the Phoenix Park.
The Royal Hospital, the Four Courts, Wellington Monument and the Guinness Brewery are all part of the scenery up at this level, while just below the swans sail by and the trains glide soundlessly in and out of Heuston Station.
The weather plays a significant role at this height with fronts clearly visible as they roll across the sky and snow and fog creating stunning landscapes below.
Designed by award winning architects O'Mahony Pike, the development has a high proportion of owner-occupiers and quite a few architects among the residents.
The owners of number 62 had been looking for an investment property when a friend showed them over Longmeadows, and they decided to buy the top floor unit, and move in themselves. Now, with their baby becoming a toddler, they are reluctantly moving to a more conventional home in the city centre.
A key-operated lift brings one directly into the apartment, to a light filled hallway with a tall window giving the first of a series of views up river and across to the Phoenix Park.
A central corridor has the two bedrooms - both doubles on one side - and a good-sized bathroom on the other.
Both of the bedrooms have hardwood flooring, recessed lights, and a wall of sturdy but chic built-in wardrobes from Poliform.
The main bedroom, with its en suite shower room, has doors opening onto an east-facing balcony that's just about big enough to take a row of potted plants.
The main event, however, is the livingroom cum diningroom cum kitchen - a beautiful room with all the space one might need for entertaining, working or relaxing.
At one end of the room an elegant Danish wood-burning stove also operates as a bread oven.
The logs are burned to dust which can then be vacuumed out of the stove.
French doors from the kitchen lead out to the wraparound balcony where there's room for sun loungers and a big table and chairs as well as an impressive collection of outsized pots.
Secure basement car-parking for one car and a 5 sq m (54 sq ft) lock-up store room complete the package.
