Family redbrick with room to expand

RANELAGH €625,000:A generously-sized terraced home in Ranelagh would make a fine family home, writes ALANNA GALLAGHER

IF YOU’VE been renting for the past few years, sitting out the market in the hope of trading up, then number 79 Moyne Road, a redbrick mid-terrace house in Ranelagh, may be for you.

The four-bedroom house is in need of serious modernisation but has lovely original features and a great sense of space. For sale through agents Sherry FitzGerald, it has an asking price of €625,000.

The property feels more generous in size than many of its contemporary D6 terraced homes. Already measuring approximately 167 sq m in size (1,800 sq ft) it has the potential to be a fine family home.

Two well-proportioned and interconnecting reception rooms lead off the hall. Period features include original coving and ceiling roses, fold-back doors and matching white marble fireplaces. The window to the rear could, subject to planning permission, become double doors that lead into the east-facing back garden.

The kitchen is on the ground floor return. This is where the house really needs work. Boom-era refurbishments passed it by but it still needs serious modernisation to open up the space. In addition there is no central heating and it may also need rewiring. There is oodles of room under the stairs to install a guest bathroom.

Upstairs, on the first floor return, is a double bedroom with adjacent bathroom, small by contemporary standards but still big enough to accommodate a claw-foot bath. A wide stained-glass window frames the spire of the nearby Church of the Holy Name on Beechwood Avenue.

On the first floor there are two generous double bedrooms and a single. All are in need of upgrading and have no storage. The single bedroom could be incorporated into the front double to create a light-filled en suite in the master bedroom.

The front of the house overlooks the intersection of Moyne Road with Ormond Road. This is the quiet end of Moyne Road, far from the ungodly early delivery-truck clatter of Morton’s Supermarket but still close enough for it to be convenient.

The back garden is medium size and has pedestrian rear access that backs onto the Luas tracks. It is equidistant from Cowper and Beechwood Luas stops. Parking is on street.

79 Moyne Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6

A four-bedroom redbrick terraced home for €625,000 Agent Sherry FitzGerald