Bright and roomy on Victoria Avenue

Donnybrook is a peaceful, affluent suburb of Dublin – but that was not always the case. The Oxford English Dictionary defines Donnybrook as "a scene of uproar and disorder" due to the infamous Donnybrook Fair which ran there for 650 years.

Number 1 Victoria Avenue is an end-of-terrace redbrick house off Morehampton Road. The residents are downsizing and have placed the property on the market with an asking price of €825,000. The owners extended the property, trebling the size of the kitchen and converted the attic to include a further bedroom and large bathroom.

The kitchen-cum-living room lies to the rear of the house and is well lit thanks to three large velux windows overhead. The living area has both an open cast-iron fireplace and a recessed electric stove with semi-solid Merbau flooring adding warmth to the period feel of the house.

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New owners will want to update the kitchen which is a little dated but a fine size. A tiny staircase from here leads to what would have been the maids’ quarter and now houses a small bathroom.

To the front of the property is another livingroom with a coal-effect gas fire set in a cast-iron fireplace and the room has original coving and ceiling rose.

Upstairs are three bedrooms, the master with a new en suite. The attic conversion has resulted in a very spacious family bathroom and adjacent bedroom with storage facilities on the landing. The house has a sizeable rear garden with vehicular access.

Number 33 sold in July 2013 for €555,000 but was smaller, at 102sqm (1093sq ft) in comparison to the 156sq m (1,680sq ft) of Number 1.