DUBLIN 2:€595,000 3 Meades Terrace, Dublin 2 A 107sq m (1,151sq ft) home with three bedrooms and converted attic Agent:Douglas Newman Good
MEADES TERRACE is a row of five, redbrick artisan-style Victorian houses neatly tucked away behind Dublin’s National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street.
As Dublin 2 locations go it is pretty neat too: Merrion Square is on the doorstep, Trinity College and Grafton Street are a short walk in one direction, the Grand Canal and Baggot Street are a short walk the other way.
Number 3 Meades Terrace, for sale by private treaty through Douglas Newman Good with an asking price of €595,000, has been extended and renovated with both imagination and an eye to the practicalities of living.
The result is a surprisingly large 107sq m (1,151sq ft) bright, high ceilinged home with open-plan living, dining and kitchen area, three bedrooms and a converted attic/office.
The gloriously opened out ground floor has a double livingroom leading to a diningroom and kitchen from where wide, wooden framed glass doors lead to a small patio.
Open, gas-fired fireplaces in both sides of the livingroom give a touch of grandeur which is helped by polished floorboards and a long, front-facing sash window.
The kitchen has a walnut floor and coolly stylish stainless steel fittings which work well with a couple of reclaimed, period radiators and the aqua coloured walls.
The patio, which has high, white painted walls offering sheltered privacy and tall, gentle evergreens, gives the sense of a further extension to the living space. Two of the bedrooms, again high ceilinged, are off the first floor landing.
The main one is front-facing and has a couple of sash windows and built-in shelving and wardrobes. The other is rear-facing and has a similar bank of wardrobes. The third bedroom is on a first floor return together with the family bathroom.
The attic conversion is eyrie-like and been made a nicely integral part of the house by exposing and making the chimney-breast brick a feature on one wall. Two large Velux windows fill the area with light and there is under eaves storage.
