An Edwardian home in Dartry and a Strain-built house in Glasnevinare amongst houses on view at the weekend.
FRANCES O'ROURKE reports
* AN EDWARDIAN house in good condition on a popular road in Dartry, Dublin 6, is for sale for €1.5 million through DNG. Number 40 St Kevin’s Park is a classic well-maintained, five-bedroom redbrick with the period details of its era – ornate ceilings, carved wooden mantelpieces – that has been modernised and extended in recent years.
The two interconnecting reception rooms have bay windows; the large open-plan kitchen is all modern, with high-gloss units and a marble worktop. There are four bedrooms on the first floor, a fifth on the second floor, and two bathrooms, one with Villeroy Boch sanitary ware, the other with a Jacuzzi bath.
Outside, there’s a good garden at the rear.
On View Saturday1pm-2.30pm
* ANOTHER popular road, this time in Glasnevin, Dublin 9, is Iona Crescent. A Strain-built house, number 36, also combines period features with modern comforts. It is for sale through Lisney for €675,000, a price cut of €750,000. The house which 160sq m (1,720sq ft) built in 1913 has interconnecting reception rooms, an extended kitchen/breakfastroom, a study on the return and three bedrooms on the first floor, one en suite. it has a walled front garden and a mature back garden.
A 1930S four-bedroom house close to the seafront in Clontarf, Dublin 3, is on the market for €1,050,000. Gallagher is selling 171 Seafield Road East, a double-fronted house with bow windows that has been modernised and extended. Period details include cornicing and cast-iron fireplaces; it also has a Shaker-style kitchen with a granite countertop and Neff oven. The walled back garden is mature and has a deck and a water feature. It is near shops on Vernon Avenue and a short stroll to the promenade.
On view Saturdaynoon-1pm
* A price cut of €200,000 could renew interest in 99 Upr Rathmines Road, a double-fronted semi-detached Victorian four-bedroom house for sale through Lisney. Originally asking €925,000, the 238sq m (2,565sq ft) three-storey house is now on the market at €725,000. Accommodation includes an elegant drawingroom, s country style kitchen and a conservatory overlooking the back garden.The garden level has pre-1963 office use, but could provide additional accommodation.
On View Saturdaynoon-1pm
* The main attractions of a fixer-upper in Mount Merrion, Co Dublin are its large garden and location. Some of the original features of 53 Callary Road – such as tongue and groove flooring throughout and fireplaces – are intact, but it needs a complete overhaul according to selling agent DNG. It is for sale for €495,000. But there is plenty of scope for growth in the detached garage at the side of the house and in the 25m walled back garden (which boasts a Bramley apple tree); the front garden is walled too, and there is room for parking.
On View Saturday1pm-2pm
* A solid family home in Clonskeagh, Dublin 14, has room for a family to grow. Number 15 Whitethorn Road is a 19sq m (1,280sq ft) three-bedroom semi-detached house on a road of Crampron-built homes.
Accommodation includes polished timber floors upstairs and down, a kitchen with a utility room off it, a conservatory with a tiled floor – and outside a 40ft long woodland garden designed by Herbert and Mays.
There is also a separate garage which could be converted and off- street parking at the front. It is for sale through Sherry FitzGerald for €640,000.
On view Saturday11am-noon
