Residential

Mid-terrace makeover in Donnybrook

A four-bed Victorian redbrick on Belmont Ave for €1.1m

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Bernice Harrison
Thu Jul 7 2016 - 05:00

Belmont Avenue, which links Ranelagh with Donnybrook, is lined with a mix of house styles – from very early Victorians to a small, smart-looking early noughties infill. No 53, at the Donnybrook end, is a mid-terrace four-bedroom Victorian redbrick that is for sale through DNG for €1.1 million.

Inside, the accommodation is spread over three floors. The house has attractive proportions with high ceilings and a good sense of space over its 2,000sq ft.

The owners did a major renovation in the late 1990s adding a large kitchen extension at the rear. There is a front living room off the hall with a tall sash window. The back reception room opens into this new space, where a large, bright kitchen leads into a dining area. A nice decorative touch here is the way the walls have been panelled.

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Upstairs the four bedrooms are over two levels, with the family bathroom at the top of the house in the return. New owners might rethink this, as they will have to update it anyway and move it down to the return on the floor below.

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The main bedroom is very large, including a fireplace like the rest of the bedrooms, and it has two windows looking out on Belmont Avenue. The view from the rear windows is towards the grounds of Muckross girls’ secondary school.

The house has been a rental for some years and it shows. New owners will want to redecorate throughout and re-do the bathrooms and kitchen, so those costs should be factored in when considering the purchase price.

For example, laminate flooring has been installed in several rooms – low maintenance from a landlord point of view, but which tends not to be popular with buyers attracted to these houses for their period appeal.

No 53 has a good-sized town rear garden and shares steps and a gate with its neighbour. This end of Belmont Road is appealing amenity-wise, in that it is just a few steps to the supermarket and the bank of shops on Morehampton Road.

Parking is on-street on what, at busy times of the day, can be a very congested road.