Residential

Labour of love in Sandymount

The owners of this spacious home on three levels worked on the house by degrees, and with care, which shows in the detail and the broad stylish sweeps throughout

Rose Doyle
Thu May 29 2014 - 00:00

This tall, redbrick Victorian manages a graceful elegance without sacrificing family-friendly comforts. The owners, downsizing and hoping to stay in the area after 25 years of family life in number 23, worked on the house slowly through the years, space by space and with infinite care. The care and attention shows in both the detail and broad, stylish sweeps throughout.

Details include the way the original timber flooring in the entrance hallway continues, unbroken, through to the dining room, an Art Deco family bathroom with a whiff of decadence about it, working shutters on long, Ventrolla sash windows and storage where you least expect it.

Broad strokes include a wide, hallway arch framing both upper and lower returns, ornate cornicing and ceiling roses, marble and/or cast-iron fireplaces in most rooms and light from a south-west orientation pouring everywhere through tall, sash windows.

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On three levels and with four bedrooms, two formal reception rooms, family room and conservatory over 2,670sq ft (248sq m) of floor space, agents Sherry FitzGerald are quoting an AMV of €1,350,000 in advance of a June 25th auction.

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The most recently refurbished rooms are the ground-floor drawing and dining rooms, the latter in use as a study. With fold back doors between, both have marble fireplaces with tiled insets. High ceilings and light showcase elaborate cornicing and ceiling roses. The Art Deco family bathroom, on the first-floor return, has strategic marble tiling in black, red-brown and white, a claw legged bath and cast-iron gas-fired fireplace.

The main, en suite bedroom has a cast-iron fireplace and, along with two other bedrooms, is on the first floor. A fourth, nest-like bedroom is on the hall return. The old-style kitchen has floor tiling and fittings in shades of cream and flows, seamlessly, into the sun room and access to the garden. There is a family room at this level too, as well as guest WC, utility and, where once a “glory hole” held coal, storage space.

Set well back from the road there is a separate garden level entrance to the front. The rear garden has a patio, lawn and vehicular access which ensures parking.