Bright and stylish in Dún Laoghaire for €1.095m

The owners of a Victorian terraced house began renovating it 15 years ago and put their own stamp on it. So while 3 Carlisle Terrace is a Victorian house with most of its original period details, modernised like so many to become a comfortable home, it has a style all its own.

The sunroom at the back of the house, for example, has a high sloping glass roof with panels that automatically close and open if it gets too hot. A cast-iron spiral staircase leads down to the sunroom from a flower-filled balcony outside the hall floor diningroom.

There’s a dumbwaiter from the kitchen to diningroom upstairs and a well-stocked wine cellar under the front steps where the coal hole usually is. And, on the ground floor, a double bedroom has a sauna unit and a separate shower/ wetroom.

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The owners say the house is now too big for two people. They plan to set sail and live on a boat for the next few years.

Number 3 Carlisle Terrace, Tivoli Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, a 244sq m (2,738sq ft) four-bedroom, two-storey over-garden level house built in the 1860s, is now for sale by private treaty through Sherry FitzGerald for € 1.095 million.

Granite steps lead up to the hall of Number 3 and it has detailed ceiling coving and cornicing and original wooden floors appear throughout the house. The interconnecting drawingroom, with a tall bay window overlooking the front, and diningroom are painted deep red.

Period fireplaces

There’s a striking red/ yellow/blue stained-glass window on the first floor return. The three upstairs bedrooms all have period fireplaces and ceiling coving, but the most dramatic of these is the main bedroom on the first floor, which spans the width of the house.

The bathroom on the first floor return is a handsome mix of period and modern, with a freestanding rolltop bath and a fully tiled glass-brick double shower. At garden level, the large kitchen/breakfastroom opens through double doors into the sunroom. There’s also a TV room/study at the front, and a large utility-cum-craft room.

Double doors fold back completely from the sunroom on to a Liscannor stone patio outside; a few steps up lead to a lawn with a raised plant-filled border. A garden door opens into a lane leading to the gated lane running behind Royal Terrace West.