Clearing cottages and terraces in Stoneybatter
Stoneybatter is one of the oldest streets on the north side, an old road out of the city that became a village of its own. The housing that defines it today came in the 1880s and 90s, when the Dublin Artisans’ Dwellings Company built row upon row of single and two-storey redbrick cottages on streets named for Norse kings: Olaf Road, Sitric Road, Ivar Street, Viking Road and their neighbours between Manor Street and Arbour Hill. Oxmantown Road, Aughrim Street and Prussia Street carry slightly bigger Victorian terraces, and Smithfield, with its Luas stop and the distillery, sits at the bottom of the hill.
The cottages are small: two rooms down, often one or two up, a yard at the back and a front door straight onto the footpath. The old cattle market stood off Prussia Street, and the area kept a working, close-knit character long after it closed.
In the last fifteen years or so Stoneybatter has become a favourite with first-time buyers, who take on a cottage that has been in one family for generations and gut it. That handover, from a long ownership to a renovation, is the clearance we do here most.
What we clear in Stoneybatter
- Cottages after a sale, emptied of the previous owner’s furniture, carpets, curtains and kitchen before the builder arrives. Our main house clearance page sets out how a typical job goes.
- Family homes after a death, cleared slowly and with care for the paperwork and photographs mixed in with everything else. See bereavement clearance.
- Flats over shops and in converted houses on Manor Street, Stoneybatter and Prussia Street at the end of a tenancy. See apartment clearance.
- Back yards and lean-tos, which hold a surprising amount for the size of the house.
- Single items that defeat a car, such as a sofa, a cast-iron bath or a fridge-freezer.
Reusable items are set aside for reuse or donation where we can find a taker, recyclables are separated and the rest is taken to a licensed waste transfer station.
One-way streets, permit parking and the front-door carry
Nowhere in Dublin is tighter for a van than the small streets of Stoneybatter. They are narrow, mostly one-way, parked both sides on residents’ permits and shared with cyclists heading for the park. We bring a box van rather than anything bigger, come in the correct direction, stop outside with the hazards on and load without pause, because a stopped van on a one-way street blocks everyone behind it.
Where a street is too tight even for that, we park on Manor Street or Oxmantown Road and carry. The distances are short. Manor Street itself is a bus route, so we avoid loading there in the peak hours.
Inside the cottages there is no side passage and no rear access, so every item comes out through the hall. We take furniture apart where we have to, protect the door frames and carry one piece at a time. The flats above the shops have steep, straight stairs and we work them floor by floor.
Why Stoneybatter buyers, families and landlords call us
A skip is nearly impossible here. There is no room on the street for one, a permit is needed, and the stuff still has to be carried out to it.
A crew of two and a van is cheaper, quicker and leaves the street clear for the neighbours, which matters on roads where everyone knows everyone. Our house clearance versus skip hire article sets out the comparison properly.
New owners call because the builder has a start date and the house is still full. Families call because a parent’s cottage holds a century of belongings and they want it handled gently. Landlords call because a flat over a shop earns nothing while it sits full of the last tenant’s things.
We are insured, we hold a current Waste Collection Permit, and we will show you both if you ask. Stoneybatter sits between Phibsborough to the north-east, Cabra up Prussia Street and the city centre at Smithfield and the quays, and we cover all three.
