Seaside home with potential

Dublin Bay and a distant Howth are visible from the wide, granite steps leading to the front door of Lissadell, a house with lots of light and a sense of Victorian seaside home about it. Recently painted white walls and ceilings make it easy to envisage Lissadell’s possibilities, which are considerable.

Built in the mid-19th century and owned by the vendor’s family since 1978, Lissadell has a separate, two-bedroom apartment at garden level and hall and first floors are laid out as a family residence.

A rear, internal stairs linking the two has been blocked off but could easily be reopened. Alternatively, a new owner might delight in a period house that generates income.

The best features of Lissadell’s architectural period are intact: high ceilings (at 9ft surprisingly so at garden level), cornicing, ceiling roses, hallway arch, sash windows with shutters and, over the entrance door, a fanlight.

Original fireplaces have been replaced by good-looking period style marble with cast-iron tiled versions.

The floor space covers 2,265sq ft (210.5sq m). The agent is The Lansdowne Partnership and the asking price is €725,000.

The main reception rooms are high, bright rooms, both with sash windows, they are currently used as a sittingroom and kitchen. A new owner might like to open them into one and turn the large utility room, on the descending return and with steps leading to the garden, into a kitchen. The existing kitchen/breakfastroom is extensively fitted and has a partially tiled floor.

Two of the three, first-floor bedrooms are doubles and a large, white-tiled family bathroom on the first-floor return has a separate bath and shower. An overhead landing window has interesting, chimney-pot views.

The garden apartment has a livingroom with marble fireplace to the front and a well-fitted kitchen with door to the rear. There is rear, vehicular access to parking in the pebble covered, granite-walled garden.