Levels of elegance in D6

DUBLIN 6: €1.6MA three-storey rear extension has given this refurbished Rathmines redbrick lots of extra space

52 Palmerston Road, Rathmines, D6

Description: Refurbished and extended four-bed house dating from the 1800s

Agent: Gunne

A TERRACED house at 52 Palmerston Road is for sale through Gunne for €1.6 million – a price that we know from the new property price register to be in line with other houses that have sold on this Rathmines, Dublin 6 road in the past three years.

The most recent sales were for €1.54 million in March and €1.9 million in June. The houses that line the road are large redbricks built in the 1800s but they do differ in style and condition. This is mid-terrace, two storeys over garden level and refurbished and extended in recent years. The major work took place around 12 years ago when a three-storey rear extension was added. It greatly expanded the living area so that the house now has 363sq m/3,900sq ft.

The grand scale of the house is, unusually, evident at garden level where the ceilings are high, and off a wide hallway – there is access under the tall flight of entrance steps – there is a large family room to the front, opening into a similar-sized kitchen. It has been fitted with a bespoke Clive Christian country-style kitchen with extensive units, a range, an island unit and polished stone worktops. The kitchen opens into a sunroom and there’s a large utility room. Also at this level is a gym room fitted out with a walk-in shower and a sauna.

The interconnecting reception rooms up at hall level are as expected: grand and high-ceilinged with restored decorative plasterwork and polished floorboards. The house is being shown unfurnished and these rooms do seem very large. A small room off the back reception room, and also accessed from the hall, has been fitted out as originally intended – as a well-appointed butler’s pantry.

There’s another room on this level which could be a study or, as the agent suggests, a fifth bedroom.

Like its neighbours, this house has a deep bay window on three levels at the front, making these rooms – the garden-level family room, formal living room and the main bedroom – brighter and more spacious

The four bedrooms are doubles, one has an en suite and a walk-in wardrobe. There is a small family bathroom at the top of the house.

It’s obvious that this house has been a rental for some time as the paintwork throughout needs refreshing and the floors could do with being re-sanded. That won’t be too much of a drawback for prospective buyers – although the size of the back garden, relatively small and with a plain flagstoned patio, the rest gravelled over, just might. A double- width roller gate suggests previous residents have mostly used it for off- street parking to supplement the parking in the much more attractive, landscaped front garden.