Extended five-bed on a Sandymount terrace

Dublin 4: €1.15m: In 1989 a terrace of four redbrick houses were built on Sandymount Avenue in a style and scale intended to blend in with the other period houses on the road.

In the terrace called Herbert Court, two smaller houses flank two larger ones and number 2 one of the bigger, three-storey styles, is now for sale through Sherry FitzGerald for around €1.15 million. The current owners have lived here for 10 years and during that time extended the five-bedroom house by making the kitchen area at the back substantially bigger.

At 183 sq m (1,965 sq ft) the house is large with accommodation spread over three floors. Downstairs, the formal livingroom is to the front and the builder at the time was clearly keen to replicate a period feel inside the house as this room has a marble period-style fireplace and decorative cornicework as well as stained glass inserts into the internal doors. There is a downstairs loo and the back of the house is given over entirely to the bright and spacious extended open-plan kitchen, dining and livingroom. Glazed double doors open out into the garden. Upstairs on the first floor there are three bedrooms and a family bathroom. The main bedroom is to the front and it has an en suite. There are two single bedrooms at the back of the house, one currently used as a utility room.

Up a further flight of stairs are two more good-sized double bedrooms and another bathroom. There is parking to the front for two cars and the long narrow back garden has a deck at one end and is mostly in lawn.