On a prime road on the coast in one of Wales' most popular places to live is a rare opportunity being born. The former Patricks restaurant with rooms is a duet of properties located on the main street that hugs the Swansea Bay coast in Mumbles.
For more than two decades the two combined period properties known as Patricks with Rooms were one of the 'must-go' places for the discerning visitor in Mumbles, and popular with residents too.
But in April 2019, after over 26 years at the helm, the team behind the business decided to ease up on the round-the-clock commitment that is needed to keep up the five star high standards expected of them.
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The distinctive duo of period properties that comprise the site, plus a substantial building at the rear, went on the market for £3.2m, with the restaurant and lounge bar closing on August 31, 2021 and the rooms shut down from September 13, 2021.
The business was started 26 years ago by two sisters, Sally and Catherine, and their respective husbands Patrick Walsh and Dean Fuller. It opened in 1993 after the team bought the lease for the 32-seat restaurant and the business has been revamped over the years to include rooms and a lounge bar which adjoins the dining room.
The business has won numerous awards over the years, and was awarded five star status by the Welsh Tourist Board, but now the property has been bought and is nearing completion into five luxury homes on the waterfront.
From somewhere to enjoy a meal out with friends and family, the locally well-known site is now somewhere that offers sunset strolls along the promenade with an ice cream, special places to dine out that have contributed to the town becoming a foodie's paradise, and boutique shops directly from the front door.
For exploring further afield, there's city, countryside and more coastline to regularly tempt you, with Swansea just a few miles along the coast of the bay and the stunning beaches and undulating rural landscape of Gower, the UK's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty spreading out behind you.
Mumbles itself has been widely recognised as a wonderful place to call home so it surely didn't surprise any local residents or fans of the town when this special spot on the Gower coast was named as Britain's top house price hotspot in 2020. Find out more about that here.
Add to this the accolade of the best place to live in the UK in 2018 from The Sunday Times, and regularly making an appearance in this annual list, and no wonder the town's average house price of £406,227 is way above the Welsh national average of £224,000, according to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data.
And what better location to enjoy it - and not have to worry about DIY jobs either - than in the newly transformed, renovated and converted Patricks with Rooms that's now called Southend Row, overlooking the park to the beach and then out over the sea of Swansea Bay.
The site has been split into five individually designed dwellings, maisonettes that spread skywards across three floors. There's a trio of homes within the larger building that have a communal entrance and hallway that includes lift access, and sea views across Southend Gardens at the front.
CGI images of the dwellings by iCreate show that the dream homes by the sea have an open-plan reception room with the ever-changing Mumbles' coastline view the living artwork on one wall, a classic and timeless Shaker-style kitchen that has space for a circular dining table, and behind the swanky kitchen exterior are hiding the expected integrated appliances.
Over the two upper floors there are three bedrooms and a bathroom designed to the same high specification throughout. There's the option of the smallest room becoming a home office which is surely a tempting proposition for anyone who creates work magic based at their abode. These three units are for sale for £450,000.
Into the adjacent building and there are two homes to find in here - both are maisonettes that follow the same layout as their neighbour but can offer a private entrance as well as a roof-top terrace as a bonus outside space for relaxing and socialising, fully immersed in the views of the coast and the town's jigsaw of rooftops.
The two homes with a terrace will be for sale for £525,000 when the whole Southend Row site, the collection of five luxury homes on the site of Patricks with Rooms, are launched onto the market in December 2022.
Externally, the properties look unchanged, apart from fresh paint in a more contemporary stormy dark grey and white, but inside the dwellings will be lavished with elegant, sophisticated interior design incorporating modern trends for black and dark tones with luxury materials.
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