Monkstown classic with super sea views for €2.3m

When a house on one of Monkstown’s imposing seafront terraces was refurbished 15 years ago, it was done sympathetically, so that original period features blend with repairs or replacements pretty seamlessly.

And some of the original features in this 1830s house, such as the trio of tall, arched windows with stained-glass panels in the diningroom, are particularly attractive.

Its location is hard to beat: number 8 Clifton Terrace has sea views from upstairs and down, is a short walk from Salthill Dart station and just around the corner from Monkstown Crescent.

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The Lambert Puppet Theatre is behind it on Clifton Lane. However, it has only residents' permit on-street parking, and a small back garden.

Now 8 Clifton Terrace, Monkstown, Co Dublin, a  313sq m (3,375sq ft) four-bedroom house, an investment property which has been rented as a family home since it was restored, is for sale through Lisney for €2.3 million.

It has been spruced up and is in walk-in condition.

Marble floors

Two large interconnecting reception rooms open off the left of the marble-floored entrance hall: both have handsome – but not original to the house – marble fireplaces as well as elaborate plasterwork, original polished wide-plank floorboards and stripped timber double doors connecting the rooms.

A few steps at the end of the hall lead into a small familyroom in an extension at the rear.

There are French doors from here opening on to steps down into the garden. The kitchen and two bedrooms are in the basement.

The smart kitchen/ breakfastroom from Design House in Dalkey has a tiled floor, cream units and polished marble worktops on counters and the island unit.

There’s an en suite bathroom with the bedroom at the front of the basement, a utility area and exterior access to the basement level from the front and back of the house.

The main bedroom is on the first floor: timber doors set into an archway open into a small lobby off which is a large double bedroom and a bathroom.

The bedroom has a marble fireplace, built-in wardrobes – and excellent views across Dublin Bay to Howth from two tall sash windows.

The Jacuzzi bath in the bathroom next door is also beside a window – it’s easy to imagine reclining in it to gaze at the view.

High stone walls

A second double bedroom at the back of the house on this floor has a bow window. There’s a smart family bathroom up a few stairs at the top of the house.

The back garden, surrounded by high stone walls, has a small lawn and there’s a lawn in the railed front garden.

Prices on Clifton Terrace are on the rise. In 2005, a very large 455sq m (4,897sq ft) house at 2 Clifton Terrace, which had been given a complete makeover, sold for just over €5 million.

But two larger houses, both over 464sq m (5,000sq ft), and needing major refurbishment, each made under €2 million more recently.

Number 5 Clifton Terrace, the family home of puppeteer Eugene Lambert, sold in August 2013 for €1.6 million, below its asking price of €1.75 million.

Number 4 Clifton Terrace, a double-fronted house like its neighbour at number 5, went on the market in April 2014 also with an asking price of €1.75 million through DNG – and sold in July 2014 for €1.9 million.

Two years later, the €2.3 million asking price for number 8 – a smaller property – probably reflects rising prices but also the fact that the work of refurbishing it has already been done: although rented up to now as an investment property for up to €5,000 a month, it is a family home in excellent condition.