Ballsbridge grandeur has new price tag

DUBLIN 4: €2.2M: This sensitively renovated redbrick, has period details and a terrace that overlooks the garden

NUMBER 16, Clyde Road is an impressive Victorian semi that was last on the market only in early 2008 when it went to auction for €7.5 million and failed to sell.

At the time it had been rented out by its investor owner for a couple of years to the Malaysian Embassy.

There are three very grand reception rooms, with all period details intact, at hall level, making it perfect for large-scale entertaining and there is plenty of space down at garden level for staff.

A family then rented it for the past couple of years and with all that space – four bedrooms and 377sq m (4,058sq ft) – it’s a fantastic family home, but now it’s in the hands of the receiver and so is back on the market for sale through the Landsdowne Partnership for €2.2 million.

The house was renovated in 2003 in what was clearly a sympathetic mix of sensitive restoration and modernisation.

These houses were always grand, not just in scale but in atmosphere, and so have good decorative plasterwork, tall sash windows with working shutters, and elaborate marble fireplaces – and these are all still here in 16 Clyde Road. In addition, new bathrooms and en suites were installed as well as a fitted oak kitchen topped with granite and complete with Aga down at garden level and a utility room.

There are some unusual features in this house including a terrace accessed via the rear reception room and overlooking the back garden. An outer hall – really a small room with encaustic Victorian floor tiles and a stained-glass window – makes for an impressive entrance.

There are four bedrooms upstairs – all large doubles – but, depending on how the house is lived in, there could easily be two more bedrooms down at the garden level, which has several rooms including a large family room which in recent times has been extended to include a sunroom. The back garden is not its original length – sometime in the past a site was hived off for a mews house but it’s still a good size and it’s south facing. There is off-street parking for one car to the front.