Period house on sunny side of the street in Drumcondra

Home Farm Road is one of Drumcondra’s best-known addresses and features a mix of housing stock.

Number 44 is one of the finer houses on the street. The well-maintained, mid-terrace period house, has lots of original features. The sitting room to the front has a box bay window. Sliding interconnecting doors lead through to the living room.

Each of the reception rooms has original ceiling roses and cornicing and complementary marble fireplaces with tiled insets. A glazed patio door has replaced the original rear window to open these rooms to the garden.

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The eat-in kitchen is to the rear. It has a period fireplace, not original to the house, into which a small non-working decorative range has been installed. The flue has been blocked but this could be reversed. The cooking part of the kitchen is small and galley-shaped with a half wall dividing it from the eat-in part of the room. This room is southfacing and a little reconfiguration could make more of this space, especially as there are outhouses to the rear that could form part of a small extension.

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The house measures 138 sq m (1,485 sq ft) and the asking price is €595,000. Out back there is a concreted, south-facing rear. It is spacious and has a wooden summer house where the original garage would have been. This has been insulated and has heating and electricity and is currently used by the owner's son and his friends as a teen bolthole.

Upstairs, on the hall return there is a nice-sized double bedroom. Adjacent to it is the family bathroom with free-standing shower. The wc is separate. On the first floor there are two double bedrooms. The master spans the width of the house and has two built-in wardrobes.

Along the road, number 23 is of a similar vintage and while on the other north-facing rear side of the road sold for €370,000 18 months ago. Sherry FitzGerald is currently selling another period redbrick, a doer-upper, on the north-facing rear side of the street. It is asking €360,000.

There is free on-street parking. The house has a E1 Ber.