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| At the time we lived there in 2019-2020 it was a very old building that needed significant renovation. It was very cold and damp there, to the point where the walls in the bedrooms were frequently wet and the fixture for the showerhead kept falling out of the wall in the downstairs bathroom due to the plaster crumbling away with the damp. There was a significant amount of mold growing in every room, and one upstairs bedroom had mushrooms growing on the inside of the windowsills due to damp and poor ventilation. The furniture and carpets were quote old and worn. The kitchen/living room to the back of the house seemed to be an extension, and the floor felt as if the carpet had been put directly onto concrete - at one part of the floor there was a square that had a different feel to it and clanked when you stepped on it as if there was a manhole cover or similar underneath. There was a very small outdoor area to the back, which had a lot of rats towards the end of the tenancy (the property is next to a supervalu storage yard and an empty site with long grass so it may be from there, I'm not sure). We also had problems with people coming from the nearby park leaving their rubbish in our bins outside, so they were frequently full. The area is very nice, with the park only a few houses down, the luas stop across the road, and supervalu directly beside from the house. | 2, Temple Place, Dublin 6, Dublin | View Place on Map | View This Place's Price History |
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