Five-bed home guides £650,000

A two-storey redbrick terraced house in Sandycove is for sale by private treaty through Sherry FitzGerald with a guide price of £650,000 (€825,329).

7 Castlepark Road is on a Victorian terrace built around 1860 and is situated opposite the stone gateway of Castlepark School.

From the front it is an attractive single-fronted house with a bay window, not too imposing and many prospective buyers will feel that the lack of a basement is an added attraction. Once through the hall door however, the house is large inside. The hall is wide with beautiful plasterwork and a deep decorative niche to one side.

To the left are two separate reception rooms, the front with a wide bay window and original white-marble fireplace. The room behind is a little smaller with a black fireplace and a window overlooking the back and is in use as a bedroom at present. These rooms could easily be fitted with folding interconnecting doors, although each is a good square size on its own. Down a few steps to the garden level there is a bathroom, kitchen and an extension with sliding doors to the garden.

Upstairs there are five bedrooms, a walk in hot-press, a bathroom spread over the first floor and two half-landings into returns. The top of the house appears to have been used as a separate apartment with a door on the landing and a boxed-in stairs but this could be removed to fully reveal a beautiful old stained-glass skylight, which would light the whole stairs and hall area.

On the same level the bedroom has been converted into a kitchen. The first-floor has two very good-sized bedrooms, the replicas of the downstairs reception rooms and a small single bedroom over the hall door which could be converted.

Most of the original features are still intact in the house, including attractive cast-iron fireplaces in the secondary bedroom, a marble one in the main bedroom and lovely old banisters and ceiling work. The kitchen is old and quite small with units along one wall.

Behind this is the flat-roofed extension livingroom with direct access to the garden. Like many houses in D·n Laoghaire and Sandycove, the back garden is not enormous but is well planted and has rear access to the lane behind.

This is a lovely old house - solidly built, warm and spacious. There is plenty of room for quite a big family and it is within walking distance of Glasthule, the sea and two DART stations.