A doer-upper in leafy Eaton Square

A handsome redbrick in Terenure needs a complete revamp, writes FRANCES O'ROURKE

AN EDWARDIAN redbrick overlooking one of Terenure’s leafy squares is for sale for €450,000. Number 7 Eaton Square, Dublin 6W, is a doer-upper, the kind of house that would have been snapped up in boom times by someone eager to revamp quickly and sell at a big profit. Now a buyer may just be someone who can afford to buy the property and take their time fixing it up as a family home.

It is for sale by private treaty through Lisney.

The 198sq m (2,130sq ft) four-bedroom house needs complete refurbishment according to the agent. It retains many of its period features, such as sash windows, ceiling coving, centre roses and marble and cast-iron fireplaces.

Downstairs, a tiled porch opens into the hall, off which there’s a drawingroom at the front of the house: it has a large bay window and a marble fireplace with a tiled inset.

There is a diningroom off the hall as well and a breakfastroom with a quarry-tiled floor and a kitchenette. There’s also a shower room on the ground floor.

There’s a bedroom – with original cast-iron fireplace and tiled inset – and a bathroom and separate toilet on the first floor return. There are two more bedrooms on the first floor: the main bedroom at the front, over the drawingroom, has a large bay window, fireplace with tiled inset, coving, and centre rose.

There’s another bedroom on the second floor return.

At the back is a 50ft long walled garden laid out mainly in lawn, with an apple tree and flowerbeds.

7 Eaton Square, Dublin 6W

Four-bed redbrick with period features needs refurbishment

Agent: Lisney