Farney Park, which takes its name from the Barony in Co Monaghan, winds its long and central way to Sandymount’s hub, a road of solidly built, mid-1930s homes with pleasant gardens and, in many cases, large extensions.
Number 20 remains much as the original design intended: a practical family home with effectively laid-out rooms, good light and plenty of garden space back and front.
Original features, immediately seen in the leaded glass of the front door, add allure and are everywhere inside: doors with brass knobs and keyholes, a distinctively ornate French window to the rear garden, two storey bay windows, encasing stair banisters.
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What number 20 does not have is an extension.
Planning permission is available, however, to convert the attic, build over the garage and extend the rear kitchen/ breakfastroom.
The 85ft-long rear garden, where a miniature football pitch of lawn stretches from a paved patio, offers plenty of scope for the last of those three options.
All of this would substantially increase the existing 102sq m (1,098sq ft) of floor space with its three bedrooms, two reception rooms and an L-shaped kitchen/breakfastroom.
Agent Lisney is selling by private treaty and quoting €895,000.
The stairs, hallway and landing have a nice feel of the house’s origins about them and the reception rooms get the benefit of light from a front facing bay window and original French window to the rear.
With sliding doors between, the reception room floors here are of polished pine.
Both have fireplaces; original and tiled in the rear sittingroom, cast-iron and period style in the front facing diningroom. The L-shaped kitchen/breakfastroom has a tiled floor.
Two bedrooms are to the front, one to the rear. A bay window adds interest to the main bedroom.
A covered, side passage has storage space as well as an outside toilet.
