Best of every world in D4

Number 104 Morehampton is a fine Edwardian redbrick semi-detached house situated on the same side of the busy road just down from the row of shops adjacent to Kiely’s pub.

The property has fine period features that include sash windows with decorative leaded glass panels, fireplace surrounds and lovely brass work. Its two really good square-shaped reception rooms have interconnecting slide-back doors. The rooms at this level have 11ft high ceilings, a sense of space that is mirrored upstairs in the bedrooms. Classically decorated, these rooms almost look preserved in aspic; a simple, modern, muted paintscape is all that is needed to contemporise them.

Double-height kitchen

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To the rear the house has been extended and completely modernised with a double-height kitchen, complete with copper-clad roof, a slick, simple contemporary kitchen by Lomi Design, Antica stone flooring, ample utility and cloakrooms and a sizeable wetroom situated under the stairs that is an exercise in good utilisation of a long, narrow space.

Glass doors slide back to open the kitchen to the garden, which was designed by landscape architect Paul Martin. It is city-sized and comes with a shed and pedestrian rear access that has you in Herbert Park in a matter of minutes. When refurbishing the house the boundary wall to the rear was foreshortened to add a car parking space to the rear, with access secreted off Brendan Road – essential when situated on such a busy road to the front.

The 218sq m house has four bedrooms: two good doubles and a single on the first floor and a fourth double on the first-floor return. The house has hotel-finish bathrooms: a gorgeous family one on the hall return with another at the top of the house.

The owner is asking €1.495 million through agents SherryFitzGerald. In April of this year number 37, a similar style of house in need of complete modernisation, sold for €800,000, according to the Property Price Register.

Number 130, a similar-sized house, also in need of modernisation, with an E1 Ber, is currently asking €850,000 through agents Gunne.