Home and income in Blackrock for €2.65m

A refurbished house on an elegant Carysfort Avenue terrace has a garden office suite. Rose Doylereports

Everything in the adjoining reception rooms of 6 Upper Prince Edward Terrace, on Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin is pretty much as it must have been when the house was first built in the 1850s.

The wide planks of the original floorboards are polished and shining, decorative plasterwork edges the high ceilings, there's a pair of working marble fireplaces and sash windows which once overlooked Dublin's green countryside now give views of the green spaces of Carysfort Park.

This easy sense of its period is everywhere in the house, the result of a thoughtful and thorough refurbishment by the owners over the last five years. A new kitchen has been added, and a new bathroom.

Where kitchens once took up the rooms at garden level there is now an office suite and gardens front and back have been newly landscaped and planted.

Part of a distinctive and elegantly white-painted terrace on Carysfort Avenue, the 300sq m (3,230sq ft) two-storey over basement house has four bedrooms, three reception rooms and a kitchen/breakfastroom. It is for sale by private treaty through Savills HOK, with an asking price of €2.65 million.

The hallway, behind a tall front door with a fanlight, is high, wide and light filled. Brown-and-white Italian marble-tiled flooring was probably laid in the 1970s and works well with the shades of creamy yellow on the walls and ceiling.

An arch leads to the rear part of the house. A timber-floored family room leads to a similarly timber-floored kitchen/breakfastroom which has cream-painted fittings. Glass-enclosed steps lead down to the back garden.

The main bedroom, one of three off the first floor landing, has a pair of sash windows overlooking Carysfort Park and great storage in an entire wall of white-painted wardrobes. A second bedroom has an en suite bathroom and the third bedroom has another sash window overlooking the park.

The garden level office suite was once an apartment: ithas toilets/shower rooms, a galley kitchen, large entrance lobby, a meeting room and office.

The entire area couldbe reinstated as part of the main house or used as a separate apartment. There are off-street parking spaces in the front garden, an important plus on busy Carysfort Avenue.