A detached Victorian house near the centre of Dún Laoghaire, refurbished and extended in the past five years, is a bright house, with tall original windows and lots of Veluxes. The 177sq m (1,905sq ft) three-bedroom house built around 1869 is for sale by private treaty through Sherry FitzGerald for €895,000.
Number one is the first house on Tivoli Terrace near the junction with Tivoli Road: its front gate – facing the side of Petersons car dealership – opens into a small paved front garden. Inside, the drawingroom is on the left of the front hall: it has a handsome fireplace with a tiled inset and a large box bay window with stained glass panels at the top.
A few steps at the end of the hall lead down through a door with a large original stained glass panel into the living area.
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The diningroom on the left of the hall also opens down into this space, which was extended to create a very smart new kitchen.
A quirky feature of the family room/living area is the tall original wood stove, inset into a chimneybreast that divides the open-plan living area/kitchen.
The Andrew Ryan fitted kitchen, painted in Farrow & Ball shades of pinky beige, has a stone-topped island unit and countertops, a walnut floor and another stained glass window. A utility room has lots of fitted storage.
The kitchen opens into a medium-sized back garden with a good-sized patio at one side and an artificial lawn at the other. Sheltered by granite walls, it’s overlooked by the tall houses on Tivoli Road.
Upstairs, a double bedroom on the first return has a very smart tiled en suite with a bath and shower – this is the family bathroom. A wide box bay window with working shutters looks down into the lane beside the house.
There are two more bedrooms on the top floor: one at the back is fitted out with bunk beds and a desk.
The wide main bedroom at the front of the house has two tall sash windows at the front and a slightly smaller one at the side, and a wall of fitted wardrobes.
Handwritten in pencil underneath the mantel of a marble fireplace with colourful inset tiles in the bedroom, is the date April 20th, 1873.
There is residential on-street parking on Tivoli Terrace, as well as rear access off a lane beside the house to park in the garden.
