Split personality in Dublin 7

When the owners of number 12 Charleville Road bought their house in 1999 it was subdivided into four bedsits with the landlady occupying the good rooms on the ground floor.

Now it is a house of two halves. The original part is pitch perfect Victorian boasting many period features with picture and dado rails, architraving, coving and ceiling roses all intact.

The owners knocked down the wall between the dining and sitting rooms to recreate two fine interconnecting rooms with the sitting room to the front. Matching white marble fireplaces and salvage doors, not original to the house, were installed. The hall features anaglypta relief paper in a deep aubergine colour below the dado rail, that helps hide the secret utility room situated off the hall return.

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A sliding door closes the kitchen from view and allows every square inch of space in the room to be utilised to maximum effect. The kitchen is open plan but is not wide open. The room is bisected by a two-way gas fire, sourced from Fenton Fires and installed at chest level making great use of the flue that was there originally and adding physical and aesthetic warmth.

The kitchen, a German design supplied by Arena Kitchens, has granite countertops and a good size island cum breakfast bar.

The light-filled room overlooks the east-facing garden and has glazing installed at every angle to add as much light as possible. The living dining area overlooks a sandstone patio and city size garden. Concertina glass doors fold back to open the whole back wall. Ceiling heights in here are 3.2 metres (10.5 feet).

There is a garage to the rear where the owners park one of their two cars. The second is parked on the street using disc parking.

On the return there is a bedroom and the family bathroom, which has an L-shaped shower bath. The master bedroom is to the front and spans the width of the house. There is a good square guest bedroom to the rear.

The property measures 179sq m (1,925sq ft) and is asking €750,000 through agents SherryFitzGerald. Charleville Road is a leafy redbrick street that connects North Circular Road to Cabra Road.