“Number 8 Grove Avenue is so secreted away that we have never been able to successfully order a takeaway as the delivery boy can never find the address,” says the house’s owner, Helen Kane, a stylist working in film and commercials.
Grove Avenue is an L-shaped cul-de-sac that has one-storey cottages visible from the road and a terrace of eight two-storey brick houses hidden from view in the bottom part of the L. This is where number 8 is located.
The terrace was built in 1901 when, according to Kane, planning permission for five houses was granted, though the developer built six.
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Her three-bedroom house is located just off Grove Road, the busy section of the Grand Canal that connects Latouche Bridge in Rathmines with Robert Emmet Bridge in Harold’s Cross. While it is a stone’s throw from canal traffic, it is blissfully quiet.
The house has no rear garden, save for a small north-facing yard, but it has a lovely south-facing patioed front garden with a high Virginia creeper-clad wall separating it from Clancy Barracks next door.
The house, which belonged to Kane’s grandfather, has two interconnecting rooms that feature original panelled ceilings. An opening takes you through to the vanilla gloss kitchen, well lit by roof lights and a set of double doors out to the small yard.
The house has one bathroom, a lovely bright room situated on the hall return where light streams in through a round window and a glass block wall.
On the first floor there are three bedrooms. The master is to the rear and the smallest of the three rooms is set up as a home office.
The house, which measures 103sq m(1115sq ft), is asking €475,000 through agents DNG. Felicity Fox is selling one of the one-bedroom cottages on Grove Avenue for €250,000.
Parking may be an issue for car owners in that there are no designated parking spaces for these houses.
