Windsor Road is one of a few redbrick-lined streets off Palmerston Road. It’s a short walk to the shops of Dunville Avenue, which include Morton’s supermarket, cafes and other browsable shops, and about the same distance to the Cowper or Beechwood green line Luas stops. There are several primary and secondary schools all within 15 minutes on foot, no matter how reluctant the kids may be to get there.
The period properties here are set well back from the road and have large sash windows. Number 3 is set on a south-north axis with its railed front garden facing due south.
The house was renovated and extended about 20 years ago; it boasts a decent C2 Ber rating and is in move-in condition. It has a really good balance of livingrooms to accommodation and plenty of period features, with shades of mocha picking out the dado rail and a paler tone highlighting the picture rail above.
Now staged for sale by House & Garden, it opens into a fine sized hall with a pitch pine floor and a smart, square formal sittingroom to the right.
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There is a second livingroom down a level. This is an internal space that has a glass block wall to bring light through from the large L-shaped kitchen cum family room. This is a space teens will love, for you can play console games to your heart’s delight in relative privacy but still be able to present yourself at the dinner table in jig time.
The kitchen units are terracotta red and set in a small C-shape that overlooks the garden and has Velux windows to bring in more light. A small breakfast bar breaks this area up from the eat-in area where French doors open out to the garden.
While north-facing this is a maturely planted space that is private and has granite paving and will get the sun, for it extends to more than 16.5m long and 6.5m wide.
At the end of the garden is an own-door small home office and an adjoining bike shed where you can also store the bins as there is pedestrian rear access to the lane behind. Car parking is on-street.
On the hall return there is a bright family bathroom with a free-standing tub and separate shower, and the first of the property’s four bedrooms, a fine double that overlooks the garden.
The primary bedroom is on the first floor and spans the width of the house. This is a large and light-filled room and, depending on how many bedrooms you need, would also make a very stately and sun-filled drawingroom.
In lieu of this room you could turn the livingroom at hall level into a bedroom which could be serviced by the small shower room that is next to an internal utility room.
There are two more bedrooms on the first floor return — a large single, big enough to accommodate a double bed and a double that is a mirror image of the one below.
Any changes the next owner wishes to make are purely cosmetic; agent Knight Frank is seeking €1.65 million.
