SANDYMOUNT: €1.15m:This elegant four-bedroom Victorian house has generous reception rooms, high ceilings and plenty of windows to give a feeling of airiness
WITH ITS HIGH ceilings, long sash-style windows and any number of Velux windows in an amiably elegant, two-storey rear addition, 144 Tritonville Road, Sandymount, Dublin 4, is light-filled and has a gracious feeling. The last house in a quintessentially late-Victorian redbrick terrace at the Ballsbridge end of Tritonville Road, it has the distinction of having reception rooms that are wider than usual.
The addition of a second storey to the return has created almost 186sq m (2,000sq ft) of floor space with four bedrooms, three reception rooms (two adjoining) and a large kitchen cum breakfastroom.
The 35ft-long rear garden, given atmosphere by high trees in the surrounding gardens, opens into a laneway with vehicular access.
The vendors paid €400,000 for this property in 1998; this time the asking price is €1.15m, with Sherry FitzGerald looking after the private treaty sale.
The vendors have put a lot of thought and work into creating a comfortable family home while holding on to original, elegant period proportions and features.
The ground floor return, in particular, catches a mood of comfortably stylish living in a kitchen cum breakfastroom lit by a row of skylights in a partially pitched ceiling. Creamy colours predominate, even in the porcelain tiles, and an eye-catching stippled marble is used in the worktops and in a niche housing the range.
A circular window gives a porthole view of the family room, which itself looks out on to the garden through a wall of glass.
A bay window at the front and a tall, glass-panelled door at the rear work with the width and height of the adjoining drawing and dining rooms to give a fine sense of light and space. Centre roses in both rooms are original and intact. Cornicing has been effectively reworked from the original and a pair of period-style marble fireplaces give symmetry. The dining room has a series of built-in cabinets and drawers painted the same sandy colour as the walls.
The main en suite bedroom is on the first floor and faces the front. It has a bank of built-in wardrobes with niftily convenient drawers and a TV perch in between. A second bedroom has steps to a mezzanine sleeping area. A third has pleasant rear garden views while the fourth is on the return, next to the family bathroom. There is an eyrie-like linen room atop a short flight of stairs and storage in a floored attic.
144 Tritonville Road, Sandymount, Dublin 4. Bright, spacious family home with many period features. Agent: Sherry FitzGerald
