Pearse Street Accommodation

Btrippn

Hey,

I just accepted a place in TCD Pearse Street accommodation in house 49.
I was just wondering if anybody could tell me a bit about it.

Thanks.

PurpleFistMixer

I'm in house 50 which is basically the same I think -that is, they're both "old" Pearse street.

The kitchen is absolutely tiny for 7 people to be sharing. If I wasn't a scholar and had to use it more than a few times a week I'd be very unimpressed with it. I actually keep a fair few nonperishable foods in my room because there just isn't space in the kitchen for those sort of luxuries. On the upside, the kitchen is actually better than in the rest of Pearse Street accommodation, because you get a proper hob and oven AND microwave (and toaster and kettle), so that's something at least. The kitchen has no windows though, so you depend entirely on the extractor fan for the place not to be ridiculously warm and humid all the time (best place to keep food, right?). I won't even speak of the fridge. I hope you like tetris.

Can't really comment on the rooms too much, since they vary so much. For example, my room: just about have enough space for a single airbed on the floor, if I push my chairs under my desk. Getting in and out of the bathroom is something I can achieve most of the time because I'm tiny (though that's purely due to how the door is arranged, the bathroom itself is grand). Flatmate's room: probably space to comfortably sleep 3 on the floor, 5 if they're friendly enough. (Yes I judge a room with "how many people can it sleep") And his isn't even the biggest room on the floor. (And these rooms are the same price somehow?) So yeah, bit of variation there. You get a cool bed-with-built-in-drawers thing which makes you feel like you're on a boat, which is something of an upside, even if the way they put it in my room renders much of the valuable floorspace useless.

Despite all of this I actually quite like it here, but it might be some kind of Stockholm syndrome scenario. My room has been described as "cosy".

Btrippn

Thank you so much for the reply, sounds a bit like the Cunningham house of campus but it's campus nontheless so all is grand.

Cheers.

devinejay

/about ten years later

I'm in 47, and I envy you guys with your proper hob and oven and microwave. We have a hotplate and a microwave/grill/convection oven combination contraption thing. On the up side we're only sharing a kitchen between four, and because our original fridge is knackered, we have a reasonably nice one now - I get a whole shelf and some of the door to myself!!

I dunno what the noise from the street is like in the other Pearse residences, but generally I think Pearse is one of the quietest spots on campus. A lot of other places are susceptible to the racket of the nightly pilgrimage towards front arch from the pav, or the general din from college green.

PurpleFistMixer

I was in Front Square last year, within earshot of Grafton Street. It was woeful. If I wasn't already asleep by 2am on a weekend, I wasn't getting any sleep until 4. In Pearse Street, I've got a room looking in to college and it's blissfully quiet. There's occasional sounds of people training on the rugby pitch in the morning, and sometimes there's kids in the creche in the afternoon, but it's nothing in comparison to Front Square...

On the side facing onto Pearse Street itself, it's a bit noisier (more police sirens) but the windows have an additional layer for better noise insulation.

tehjimmeh

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

I was in Front Square last year, within earshot of Grafton Street. It was woeful. If I wasn't already asleep by 2am on a weekend, I wasn't getting any sleep until 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBFsofrwL4

Btrippn

It would seem the 47 has the advantage of fridge space whereas house 50 has the privilege of a hob. Logically house 49 must have a balance of both as its in-between, right? As for the people living in Front Square you should be thankful that you’re only moments away from this! http://youtu.be/WGmYJrIC2Mw

Figgidy

Hey there,

I'm living in 49 myself at the moment, and was in a similar situation to you last year with regards a lack of information. It wouldn't kill them to put up more detailed pictures of the rooms on the accommodation website. I almost called round to the building to ask a random person if I could see their room! Anywho, I went for it and here I am.

Basically, as PurpleFistMixer said, the kitchen is the one major problem. Tiny, tiny kitchen shared between seven. It's a tidy little space, with all the equipment you need in good working order, so it would be efficient for two or three people, but seven is just ridiculous. The fridge wars are continuous and pretty frustrating. I also keep most non-perishable stuff in my room, which is totally doable since there's so much storage space.

My bedroom is great. I've got one of the mid-sized rooms on the floor, not the biggest, not the smallest. The boat bed is very cool and very cosy. The storage space is excellent and it's great having the little table and armchair thing. Can't argue with an en-suite and my shower is really good. It seems as if there are three huge rooms on each floor, three medium-sized and one teeny one which is next to the kitchen. In fact, lemme check the number now... *back* Okay, done. Assuming the layout of the floors is the same all the way up (which I'm pretty sure it is), the small room on each floor is the one that ends in a 6. The one that ends in a 3 is also a little small, but not as dramatic as the 6. The huuuge (and they are *huge*) rooms are 7, 5, 2 and the medium-sized are 1 and 4. So, if you've been offered a 6 or a 3, I'd say think carefully. Otherwise, you're sorted. And in case you're interested, rooms that end in 1, 2 and 7 face into college, the others face out onto Pearse St. The ones that face onto Pearse have to put up with more noise, but they have slightly nicer windows. Your call!

Also, I'm *directly* over the creche and it's not actually that bad. I'm not one for major sleep-ins, but even when I do, it's not a problem. It's also very quiet at nighttime, which, for me, is a good trade-off.

Best of luck!