Pretty Edwardian home with original features

Harolds Cross/€1.35m: With its high ceilings and shining timber floors, Fairfax, at 57 Kenilworth Park, Harolds Cross, Dublin 6W, gives an immediate sense of both its period (it was built circa 1908) and the pleasantly liveable use made of its proportions.

The houses on this quiet residential road come in a variety of styles and size: Fairfax is semi-detached, has a charming first floor bay window and is at one end of a group of four houses of similar design. Fairfax, incidentally, is its given name; all four houses in its group were named immediately after being built.

Fairfax is interesting, too, in that it has two-and-a-half floors with the top, half-floor (originally maids' bedrooms) harbouring a study and en suite bedroom. In a floor area of 148sq m (1,593sq ft) there are four other bedrooms, two interconnecting reception rooms, and a kitchen / breakfastroom. It carries an AMV of €1.35 million prior to auction through Douglas Newman Good on October 25th.

The front porch leads into a hallway with the same high proportions and gives views through to the thriving town garden at the rear. Original features abound. The reception rooms have ornate fireplaces and all of the bedrooms have cast-iron models.

The maple fitted kitchen / breakfastroom is the work of architect John Dorman who designed an area filled with light, clever storage, a wall of glass door and window to the garden and a ceramic floor heated underneath.

There is a nice curve to the walls by both the front and rear windows of the interconnecting drawing and dining rooms and a decorative wood surround to the opening for the folding, wood-stripped doors between them.

The bay window makes a nice feature in the main bedroom. It also has a window seat and built-in wardrobes to either side of the cast-iron fireplace. There are two other bedrooms on this floor, with the family bathroom and a fourth bedroom on the return. Stairs up to the half-floor are brightly lit by a large Velux.