Renovated Victorian four-bed in Donnybrook for €995,000

It’s 20 years since 25 Mount Eden Road in Donnybrook, an end-of-terrace redbrick, last changed hands.

Then it was bought to be fixed up, but three years after the work was completed the owners relocated for professional reasons and the house has been a corporate let since – and a particularly easy one for which to find good tenants, according the owner.

The latest tenants have now left – taking their furniture with them – and the house is being shown unfurnished and so not at its best.

The four-bed 133sq m (1,432sq ft) house is for sale through Hunters for €995,000.

The location is attractive, within a short walk of Donnybrook village. Lined with redbrick houses, Mount Eden Road is a quiet residential street between Belmont and Morehampton Roads. It’s a house as likely to appeal to buyers downsizing from larger houses in the area as it is to young families.

As well as the basics, the current owners’ renovation included extending at the back to add on an eat-in kitchen and updating the family bathroom. Aside from this extended kitchen, the original layout hasn’t changed.

There are two interconnecting reception rooms, three double bedrooms upstairs and the fourth bedroom and bathroom in the return. Two of bedrooms share an unsual curved wall.

Making the bathroom larger meant eating into the fourth bedroom which is now very small with space for a single bed and little else.

While the kitchen was bang up-to-date when the house was renovated, its terracotta tiled floor and pine kitchen units are no longer in fashion and make the space seem darker.

As well as decorating from top to bottom, new owners may possibly look to either update the kitchen or, more likely, build an entirely new one.

Next door is one of Donnybrook’s more intriguing sites. Used as a commercial garage when the owners of number 25 bought, the large site is home to charming, although now delapidated-looking, redbrick coach houses. In the intervening years the site was sold and there were plans at one stage to redevelop it .

Parking is on street and there is a side pedestrian entrance.