Miradouro
From €190 / night
The top-floor room, with a slip of terrace over the rooftops and, on a clear day, the river past the chimneys.
Townhouse rooms · Lisbon
Nine rooms around a tiled courtyard.
A restored 19th-century house in Príncipe Real, with a small café in the courtyard and enough blue-and-white tile to lose an afternoon looking at.
About this page. The Wren isn't real. Frogmade built it to show the kind of site we design for independent stays. The name, the address, the photographs and every detail here are invented — there is no such house and nothing to book.
The house
Built in 1878 for a fabric merchant.
The Wren was built in 1878 for a fabric merchant who wanted his stock, his family and his customers all under one roof. The ground floor was a shop, the courtyard a loading yard, the upper floors home. It spent the last few decades as offices.
The 2019 restoration kept what was worth keeping — the tiled dado up the stairs, the merchant's cutting table, the courtyard's stone arch — and turned the rest into nine rooms and a café. There's no lobby to speak of. You come in through the courtyard, past the café, and someone hands you a key.
- Rooms
- Nine, over four floors
- The café
- In the courtyard, from 8
- The building
- 1878, restored 2019
- Check-in
- From 3pm, at the café
Rooms
Nine rooms, four you can pick.
Rates are per night with breakfast in the courtyard, and ease off between November and March. The four below are the ones people ask for by name.
Pátio
From €165 / night
On the ground floor, with French doors that open straight onto the courtyard and the lemon tree. Coffee arrives before you're properly awake.
Azulejo
From €175 / night
Keeps its original tiled wall — blue and white, floor to ceiling, 1878 — which the restorers spent three weeks cleaning by hand.
Alfaiate
From €150 / night
The merchant's old cutting room, with the long table kept as a desk and the steady north light that made it useful in the first place.
Five more rooms, from €130 — ask when you write.
The café
Coffee under the pergola, from eight.
The courtyard café does coffee, toast and pastéis from a bakery two streets over. It's open to the street until noon — after that it's just for guests, and the courtyard goes quiet.
Breakfast for guests is included, served at whichever table has the best light that morning.
Around the house
Tiles, iron and lemon trees.
Find us
In Príncipe Real, off the garden.
Rua do Loreto 000, Príncipe Real, 1200 Lisboa (invented address)
The house is a few doors off the Praça do Príncipe Real garden, halfway up the hill between Bairro Alto and São Bento. It's a walkable, slightly steep part of town — leave the car outside the centre.
- Lisbon Airport (LIS) — 20 min by taxi
- Rossio & Baixa — 15 min downhill on foot
- Tram 28 & the 24 — two minutes' walk
- Nearest metro (Rato) — 8 min walk
Approximate — this is a demo
Enquire
Write to us about a stay.
Send your dates and a room name if you have one. We reply by email, usually the same day, with what's free and a price. There's no instant booking.
- stay@thewren.example — not a real address
- Phone
- +351 000 000 000 — not a real number
Reminder: this is a Frogmade demo. The form doesn't send anything and there's no booking to make.