Residential

Elegant Victorian terraced home in D4

On one of Dublin 4’s finer roads, well-presented number 71 is in excellent order but with lots of felixibility

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Gemma Tipton
Thu Apr 28 2016 - 01:00

If you want to live on Wellington Road just now (and, if you’re in the market for a graceful Victorian terrace, on an elegant road within easy reach of the city centre, and have the requisite money to spend, why wouldn’t you?), you’re spoiled for choice. There are three houses for sale on the street at the moment.

Sitting in the sun trap secluded garden of number 71, Peter Kenny of Knight Frank reckons this house is “the best quality property available on the road at the moment, and competitively priced.” Wellington Road, he says, “has a boulevard feel, broad and leafy, with no buses to mar the peace and quiet”. The owner, who has owned the house since the early 1980s, had recently rented the three- to four-bedroom house and, while it is presented in excellent order, new owners may want to make some changes.

Heated conservatory

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These include possibly moving the kitchen up from garden level, or opening through to what is currently being used as a breakfast room to make a larger space that would run right from front to back of the house.

It’s perfectly nice as it is – complete with a bright red Aga in the kitchen, and French windows in the breakfast room, which open to a heated conservatory (the current owner is a passionate gardener).

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At ground floor level most of the original features are intact. The pair of fireplaces in the livingroom and drawingroom aren’t original, but are in keeping, and there’s a bedroom to the rear. Upstairs again, an en suite could go into the master bedroom, which is a good large space, complete with a row of wardrobes. Open the doors for an unexpected blast of very funky wallpaper.

Then, if you’re still in the mood for rearranging – or playing fantasy house planning – rejig the rest of the bedroom/ bathroom arrangements to get the four bedrooms Kenny demonstrates this house can easily accommodate. It’s on the market at €2.5 million. Nearby number 75, a three-bed with mews that needs a refurb, is on at €2.25 million with Savills, while number 68, a four-bed in ready-to-go condition, is on at €2.45 million with Sherry FitzGerald.