First-time buyers looking for a house rather than apartment will be interested in a cute one-bedroom cottage off the South Circular Road in Dublin 8 that has come back on the market, a previous sale having fallen through.
On the market through the Felicity Fox agency, 7 The Farmyard, Hybreasal, is a pretty cut-stone house set in a quiet development at the Kilmainham end of the SCR. It's for sale by private treaty at €420,000. The house is owned by a designer who has given the 65sq m (702sq ft) interior a thorough makeover using antique furniture very effectively against the backdrop of white walls and polished timber flooring.
The accommodation includes a good-sized livingroom-cum-diningroom with an open fireplace, and a pretty staircase leading to the upper floor.
Off the livingroom is a spacious kitchen with full appliances. The bathroom is also at this level, while upstairs is the large double bedroom lit by a skylight and by a picture window. A second room upstairs is equally large but is used as a study and for storage, as its height restricts it from being used as a bedroom.
There's a small front garden and a designated car-parking space.
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