Sandymount €1.2m: Even the front railings of 105 Sandymount Avenue, a four/five-bedroom period home, are listed. And it has been given a thoughtful renovation, writes Rose Doyle.
The four elegant, redbrick houses which make up a small terrace at the village end of Sandymount Avenue in Sandymount, Dublin 4, were built in l903. Their façades are listed as are their unique front railings.
Number 105 is one of these houses, thoughtfully renovated and now for sale at auction through Lisney on November 24th. It has a guide of €1.2 million.
It has four/five bedrooms (one currently in use as a study/TV room) three/four reception rooms and a floor area of some 185 sq m (2,000 sq ft).
There are fireplaces in every room but the kitchen, where there is a range. Black and a rich period cream are the theme colours in an opulent interior with an Edwardian feel to it.
An outer double door shelters the porch and leads to a front door with ornate leaded glass panelling and a fanlight. The imposing entrance leads to an equally impressive hallway where the walls are a deep red with cream below the Dado rail and the floor tiled in black and white. An arch halfway along signals the rear part of the house.
A guest toilet has been been given the same colour scheme as the hallway.
The creamy coloured kitchen/breakfastroom extends into a paved and landscaped rear patio.
A range of period-style fittings have been given a painterly distressed look while a Rangemaster fits into a central, tiled alcove and effectively divides the dining and working kitchen areas.
The floor is tiled in limestone; other features include a Franke porcelain sink, cream-tiled worktops and a back door to the patio with leaded glass inset.
The front drawingroom has a deep bay window and functioning period-style shutters which are not original.
The polished floorboards, however, are original as is the elaborate, white-ish marble fireplace with its tile inset. Hand-painted wallpaper panels continue the sense of opulence. Double sliding doors lead from here to the diningroom. It has a marble fireplace, similar to that in the drawingroom but in a more muted colour with a gas-fired inset.
The floorboards are polished and there are more hand-painted panels on the walls. Original French doors lead to the patio.
The TV room/study is on the first floor return. It has polished floorboards, a cast-iron fireplace with gas fired inset and a Dado rail. The main bathroom is also on this return. It has a black-and-white tiled floor, tongue and groove panelling and an original restored clawfoot bath.
Three bedrooms, including the main en suite, are off the first floor landing where there is a Velux window which comes from the company's heritage range.
In the main bedroom there is a deep, curved bay window similar to that on the ground floor as well as a Dado rail and large cast-iron fireplace with tiled inset. The en suite shower room is tiled in cream and blue.
A second bedroom to the front has a wall of built-in wardrobes, picture rail, cornicing and a cast-iron fireplace. The rear bedroom on this floor has similar features.
The fourth attic-style bedroom is on the top return. Good sized, it has an en suite.
The patio has a barbeque area near the end wall and a white-washed side wall. The front garden is gravelled.
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