Built in 1836 - but it's never been for sale

BLACKROCK: OVER €2M: A HOUSE on a Blackrock terrace is to be sold on the open market for the first time since it was built in 1836.

Number 11 Prince Edward Terrace, Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin, the middle of three distinctive houses on the terrace, is for sale through Sherry FitzGerald for over €2 million.

It, and the two flanking houses have been lived in and owned by members of the same family since 1925, who first rented and then acquired the trio from the original owners.

The vendor’s memories, as one of 17 grandchildren, are of “a busy, animated, lively home” where the garden level, with its kitchen, breakfastroom and bicycle room “was the engine of the house”.

Number 11 is a 356sq m (3,835sq ft) three-storey house with beautifully proportioned and cared-for rooms, filled with light from long sash windows.

From the staircase there are views of a flourishing 103ft long back garden developed by a family member who is a horticulturist.

There are fine period features – marble fireplaces, shutters, plasterwork, doors and windows – in the five bedrooms and five reception rooms.

A recess on the turn of the stairs has a large cathedral window and is a special pleasure. Accessed via double doors with panels of coloured glass, its soaring garden views can also be seen from the first floor landing. The recess itself leads to a guest toilet.

The four main reception rooms are large and high-ceilinged. Off the entrance hallway, two have interconnecting double doors and matching marble fireplaces while a third, which overlooks the rear garden, serves as a diningroom.

It has a darker marble-with-slate fireplace and ceiling-high panelled storage cupboard.

The fourth rception room is a kitchen/breakfastroom but was probably a study or library in its early life.

Four good-sized bedrooms off the first floor landing have original fireplaces. A family bathroom on this floor has a full length sash window.

The garden level has a separate entrance and could be used for separate accommodation.

It needs work: much of the original kitchen is as it was with mosaic floor and open chimneybreast.

A maid’s room and pantry are more interesting than functional, a front livingroom has a fireplace with raised basket and there is a bedroom where the bicycle room used to be.

The parking spaces in the front, railed off garden are a godsend on a busy road.

• 11 Prince Edward Terrace, Carysfort Ave, Blackrock, Co Dublin
• Well-cared for historic 356sq m (3,835sq ft) house built in 1836 Agent: Sherry FitzGerald