This Limerick home was restored from a wreck to incorporate the best of both worlds

Trish Dromey profiles a home restored from wreck, to combine a historic feel with modern efficiencies.

Anyone who thought it would be impossible to combine Edwardian splendour with a high tech A energy rating has been proven entirely wrong by the owners of Glenade, on O’Connell Avenue in Limerick.

Resurrected from wreck and ruin by a builder of A-rated houses and his other half, an interior designer, the three-storey end of terrace property is a now masterpiece in cream and gold elegance, full of carefully replaced period features, which, with a modern air to water heat pump, a high level of insulation and some triple glazing, has achieved a high, A3 BER