Grand redbrick turns on the style

DUBLIN 6: €2.25M:THE VICTORIAN developer who built 63 Terenure Road East was certainly ambitious in his scale. The tall redbrick semi-detached house has 414sq m (4,460sq ft) over four storeys and it hasn't been extended in any way.

It is for sale through Douglas Newman Good for €2.25 million, a price that sales agent Pat Mullery reckons is good value for the amount of house involved. However, new owners, particularly those looking for an impressive and very large period family home, will have to do some work.

In recent years the house, set well back from the road behind mature chestnut trees, has been a BB, so there are seven bedrooms and a self-contained two-bedroom apartment at garden level. When the apartment was created, the house’s main kitchen was moved upstairs to hall level in the back return and, while it is perfectly functional, it’s relatively small so new owners will probably give it a revamp or change its location by moving it down to garden level.

The two grand reception rooms at hall level interconnect via sliding doors and have their original highly decorative cornice work and fireplaces.

Indeed many of the period features are still intact throughout the house, from the decorative glass and cast-iron details in the front door to the marble fireplaces in several rooms. The staircase linking the hall level with the garden level is still there (but it’s boarded up) and a handsome feature of the house is a curved staircase featuring decorative wrought iron topped with a curved mahogany handrail.

All seven bedrooms are en suite, some more successful than others, in that it is notoriously difficult to install en suites in these period houses without compromising the scale of rooms. Some of these rooms are likely to be converted into family bathrooms and perhaps a dressingroom. That’s if the buyers are thinking of a family home; they may of course be keen to run the house as a BB.

There’s a great feeling of space throughout the house, with good landings and high ceilings on all levels. The 35m (115ft) back garden is south-facing and the front garden has off-street parking for five or six cars.

63 Terenure Road East, Dublin 6

Spacious period house with seven bedrooms, self-contained two-bed flat and 115ft south-facing garden

Agent: Douglas Newman Good