Edwardian family home in Rathgar with room to expand

Dublin 6: €1.25mA four bedroom house at 41 Templemore Avenue off Highfield Road in Rathgar is for sale through Douglas Newman Good with an asking price of €1,250,000.

It is part of a terrace of houses that was built in the 1920s and, despite its modest exterior it is, at 133sq m (1,431sq ft) larger than it appears.

The present owner moved in six years ago and redecorated and did some work on the kitchen but new owners, particularly if it's a small family that buys, will probably do what many of the houses on the road have already done and extend the kitchen.

There are two good size interconnecting reception rooms with high ceilings complete with the plain cornice work that was fashionable in the Edwardian era.

Down a couple of steps is the small breakfast room which opens into a small scullery sizedkitchen.

Even just knocking these two together would make a big difference.

Upstairs, the bedrooms are two doubles, one good single (in the back return) and one very small one at the front.

The owner wisely decided to leave the bathroom pretty much as he found it, with its original tongue-and-groove panelling and cast iron bath.

There is a spacious landing which usually indicates that should new owners decide to extend into the attic, they'll be able to get a decent staircase in.

A surprise with this house is the double garage - in good condition - at the end of the smartly landscaped back garden. While it could, of course, be used for cars, it looks more like a space ready to be turned into a very pleasant home office or garden room.

At the front of the property there is a small railinged garden and parking is on street - although there is as yet no disc parking on this road so it tends to get quite busy.