With a modern mews, an apartment at garden level and a beautifully restored four-bed family home, number 10 Mount Street Crescent offers an interesting proposition for buyers looking for a well-located period property with serious income potential.
The work was carried out in 2006 when the fine Georgian house, a protected structure, was extensively renovated and brought back from division into several units. It has been a rental since then.
The two-bed, two-storey contemporary mews makes best use of its site with the entrance door set into a curved wall inset with glass blocks and opening into a double height hall. There are two double bedrooms, one with en suite, a utility, kitchen and living area which opens out to a good-sized patio. A wall divides the 113sq m (1,216sq ft) mews from the main house so it is entirely separate.
The basement, now a two-bed apartment with 94sq m (1,000sq ft), is accessed from the front of the house and from the side. Its front door opens into a small hall and then into a livingroom with an open fireplace and a feature exposed stone wall. The small kitchen is through an arch in the livingroom. Two double bedrooms – one with en suite – and tiny shower-room are off the inner hallway.
Stunning
The main house from hall level up is stunning, though unfurnished and recently vacated by tenants, it is perhaps, not looking its best. In its scale and room volumes it is a grand Georgian townhouse, three stories to the front, four to the rear and with 286sq m (3,078sq ft). The tall sash windows look out to the side of the landmark Pepper Canister Church.
The 2006 renovation restored the original features and added quality interior elements such as a stone floor in the hallway, cast iron radiators and a contemporary bathroom in the first floor return. At hall level there are two principal interconnecting rooms – a living room to the front, kitchen to the rear. There is a large utility room in the hall floor return.
Double doors
On the first floor there are two more rooms – the grandest in the house and originally used for large-scale entertaining. They should ideally interconnect but the double doors have been removed and the opening blocked up to make the rear room a bedroom. New owners, if they don’t need four bedrooms, might reinstate that opening.
On up again and the master bedroom, with two tall sash windows, has been cleverly designed to incorporate an en suite without impacting too much on the shape of the room. At the top of the house are two more bedrooms with windows facing the rear and sharing a mosaic-tiled shower-room.
Number 10 Mount Street is for sale through Knight Frank for €3 million.
