Number 72 Ranelagh Road is a developer-owned house from an earlier era. The fine Victorian property is situated on the main road, between Dartmouth and Northbrook Road intersections. This stretch was originally called Euston Terrace and the house dates back to 1850. It was the family home of John Rooney, the original developer of the terrace.
As such it has fine period features with detailed plasterwork decorating the entrance hall and picked out in contrasting colours. Owned by the same family for the last 30 years, the house has been spruced up with fresh paintwork and new carpets throughout.
The interconnecting reception rooms span the width of the house and have fold-back doors leading from the drawing room, overlooking Ranelagh Road, through to the dining room. These rooms have matching fireplaces each with a primrose yellow tiled insert and ceiling heights of over 11ft.
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On the return is a bathroom and a utility room, somewhat separate from the kitchen at garden level and where the present owners added new countertops and painted the units.
Flagstones cover the floor and fit well with the old range. It looks great but hasn’t been in use for years. Bedroom number four is at garden level as is a separate office. Ceiling heights here are low ranging from seven to 7½ feet.
There are two more bedrooms on the first floor. The master spans the width of the house and overlooks busy Ranelagh Road but these windows have been double-glazed. It has a new internal shower en suite. To the rear is a double whose proportions have been changed by the addition of the en suite to the front.
The third bedroom is actually two interconnecting rooms, a living room to the front with an open fireplace and a bedroom to the rear, a brilliant option for an elderly parent, siblings or a teen.
The property, which measures about 254sq m (2743sq ft) is asking €1.25 million though agents SherryFitzGerald. To the front there is ample off-street parking, essential on this thoroughfare, as well as well-tended formal gardens and a small and sheltered west-facing patio.
The back garden is east-facing and includes a pitched greenhouse that, with some upgrading, would make a great sun room as one aspect faces south.
Originally the garden was 90ft long but the current owners have retained about 50 feet of this. To buy the remainder will cost about another €300,000. At present there is a roller garage door to the rear. Other properties on the street have a mews house to the rear.
Nearby, Savills is asking €680,000 for number 56 Ranelagh Road, a house of 194sq m (2088sq ft) in need of refurbishment.
