Dartry redbrick ready for a makeover

Bar a couple of minor amendments, 46 St Kevin’s Park looks to have been barely touched since it was built in the early years of the 20th century.

The owner of the four-bed semi-detached Edwardian house lived there since 1970 and didn’t feel the need to interfere with its grand ceiling heights and proportions, huge windows pooling in light and architecturally decorative plasterwork.

While the kitchen needs work to bring it up to the expectations of modern family living, its two fine reception rooms need a curtain and carpet update and little else.

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The deep bay window of the drawingroom washes the room in southerly light. Adjoining is an equally fine diningroom with the same decorative ceiling work and a box bay window whose lovely vista takes in the garden on one side and the large cherry blossom in the front.

Three steps lead down to the kitchen where time has apparently stood still. This space is sub-divided into the eating area, framed on one side by the chimney breast that once would have housed a range of some kind.

There are deep cupboards of tongue and groove panelling leading through to a second prep part of the kitchen. Off this is another space just as large but several degrees colder and another door leading out to the garden.

The north-facing garden is old fashioned and looks deceptively smaller than its 42m (140ft) length. At its centre is a pear tree that no longer bears fruit .

Original

This is one of the last houses in this quiet cul-de-sac still in its original condition and when you climb the stairs to the second floor you can see what the neighbours have done by way of sympathetic extensions at the rears of the houses.

In number 46 there is one bedroom on the hall return with a separate bathroom, complete with original cast-iron bath in need of re-enamelling, and a toilet on the same level.

On the first floor there are two large doubles and one single bedroom.

Some of the neighbours have knocked through the single and front double to create a roomy en suite bathroom with its own window. Others have used the single as a home office. Several have also gone up into the attic to create a dormer room.

The house, which measures 209sq m ( 2,260sq ft) and has a Ber rating of G, is asking €1.5 million through agents Sherry FitzGerald.

According to the Property Price Register number 31, a five-bedroom semi-detached property sold for €1.975 million last September and number 49 sold for €2.05 million last July.