£400,000 D4 house has period charm

Buyers with more than £400,000 to spend who fancy moving into a four-bedroom period house that has been totally refurbished should visit Dromard Terrace, in Sandymount, Dublin 4. Number 20, an end-of-terrace house, has just come on the market.

Lisney will auction the property on February 23rd and selling agent Denis Beare is suggesting a guide price of £390,000-plus. It could make more under the hammer. Dromard Terrace runs between Seafort Avenue and Beach Road and is a short walk from the sea and from the village. Number 20 is an Edwardian house with just over 1,600 sq. ft and all the space has been put to good use. The attic has been converted to make a really attractive bright room that is currently used as a study but would be ideal as children's bedroom.

There is an extended kitchen-cum-dining-room with a conservatory-style bay window. Beyond the kitchen is a utility room and there is an under-stairs lavatory off the hall. Like most houses of the era, it has two well-proportioned interconnecting rooms running from front to back of the house. Both are painted a masculine shade of green with floors carpeted in neutral fawn. Both rooms have working fireplaces. In the kitchen, there is a very good amount of storage space behind contemporary painted doors with slender steel handles. There is a long work station on one side of the room and a double larder-style unit on the facing wall. The smart black Aga and terracotta painted walls make this a very cosy room but the owners are planning to take the Aga with them to their new home.

The timber floor runs through to the dining area, where there is another row of floor-to-ceiling cupboards.

Upstairs, the family bathroom on the return is very nicely decorated with ink blue walls and white tongue-and-groove panelling.

There are two good-sized double bedrooms on the first floor and a much smaller room that could be a baby's room or a walk-in dressing room. The main bedroom looks out over the back garden through a tall sash window. It is a very pleasant room with a cast-iron fireplace flanked by tall Gothic-style fitted wardrobes. Off one corner of the room is a fully tiled en suite shower room.

A new staircase rising to the attic floor is a near copy of the lower staircase and looks as though it has always been there. Carpets and curtains will be included in the sale and this is a valuable bonus in the reception rooms where there are elaborate gold-striped curtains. There is an Eircom phone watch alarm system and a telephone intercom at the hall door.

The back garden is small and it has access via a side gate to a grassy lane that runs at the back of the terrace and is shared by residents.