Small but perfectly formed in south city havens

Demand for houses in Dublin 8 is on the rise: 22 Curzon Street, a three-bedroom redbrick Victorian villa-style house went sale agreed after just two weeks on the market and at its asking price of €595,000.

According to the property price register, 11 Stamer Street, a three-storey over basement house in nine units, needing refurbishment, sold for €460,000 in April. Its asking price had been €499,000.

Another redbrick, at 20 Bloomfield Avenue, which is a pre-1963 terraced house in six units and in need of upgrading, sold in January for its asking price of €495,000.

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Number 89 Heytesbury Street is a villa-style period property that has been simply decorated to allow the scale and light of the house to shine through. It is asking €595,000 through agent Felicity Fox.

The three-bedroom terraced house measures 125sq m (1,350sq ft). There are some period features: the fanlight over the door, cornicing and wide wooden floor boards. Other elements, such as ceiling roses, are reproduction.

At entry level the house has a sitting room to the front, which is a lovely, balanced space with built-in bookshelves and lots of light.

The first of the property’s three bedrooms, the main bedroom, is at the back of the house. It is a lovely airy room with charming built-in wardrobes painted mauve. The fireplace is open but the flue has been blocked.

A single bedroom occupies the hall return. It is sweetly decorated as a child’s room and has a cast-iron fireplace.

Downstairs, at garden level, the kitchen is to the front and is dark when contrasted with the rest of the house.

The next owner might think about reconfiguring the house; turning this into the main bedroom and installing the kitchen upstairs where it could better enjoy the morning sun.

A double bedroom to the back of the house has patio doors that open out to the gorgeously maintained east-facing back garden.

The garden, which is overlooked on one side, gets some sun in the back in the early evening and is home to a specimen palm tree that conjures up a holiday mood.

There is on-street disc parking on Heytesbury, Pleasant’s Street and Camden Row.

The period house is BER exempt.