Redbrick fit for a family on Cowper Road

DUB LIN 6: €2.75M:A handsome five-bed with grand reception rooms comes with an extension used as a family room

IT TAKES a large family to fill a five-bedroom, 326sq m (3,475sq ft) house so after more than 30 years in 26 Cowper Road, and their family grown, the current residents are selling up and downsizing.

Lisney is handling the sale of the fine detached period redbrick called Lugnaquilla, which has an asking price of €2.75 million.

The houses on Cowper Road vary in style and age and the ones at the Palmerston Road end built in the 1870s are large and detached. They are double-fronted so have wide front gardens set back from the road and with off-street parking.

These houses with their high ceilings, well-proportioned rooms and decorative plasterwork and fireplaces were grand when they were built with the emphasis on good reception rooms. Number 26 has all that and is comfortable, well-maintained family home. Off the hall on the left are two interconnecting rooms – a living room to the front, formal dining room to the back. Like most rooms in the house, including the bedrooms, these have dual aspect with tall sash windows to the side for extra light. On the other side of the hall is another reception room, currently home to a snooker table. Also off the hall is a bathroom in what was probably originally a cloakroom or butler’s pantry.

Upstairs on the half landing is the first of the five bedrooms which are made up of four doubles and one single. These have been updated over the years and two have ensuites. The room at the top of the house was once a large double bedroom but the present owners converted it into a bathroom.

Down a couple of steps off the hall is the eat in kitchen which is at the back of the house and has patio doors out onto the garden. Off it are a utility room and boiler room.

The large garden, which is not overlooked at the back, gives scope for extending and some years ago the owners took advantage of that by building a large more contemporary style single storey redbrick extension which is used as a family room.

26 Cowper Road, Rathmines, D6

Detached five-bed redbrick built in the 1870s

Agent:Lisney