45 Sandymount Road
Sandymount
Dublin 4
Agent: Savills
Long, flourishing and distinctly other-worldly gardens are a feature of many of Sandymount’s period houses. Number 45 Sandymount Road is true to type. A mid-terrace, villa-style home on what is the main road through one of the capital’s most historically interesting suburbs, its 95ft (29m) long rear garden has lawns with granite steps, high shrubs, a blooming lilac tree and a great deal of privacy.
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The owners, who have lived in number 45 for more than a decade, have carefully created a modern, comfortable home that is everywhere faithful to the original 19th century concept and layout. There’s an immediate sense of a time and way of living in the high-ceilinged entrance hallway where a fanlight of plain glass illuminates the timber floor, dado and picture rails and, halfway along, an arch framing the rear part of the house and stairs to a half landing. The interior floor space measures some 1,468sq ft (136.36sq m) and Savills is quoting an asking price of €950,000.
The livingroom and diningroom open off the reception hallway and run from the front to the back of the house, connected by double doors. Windows to either end, with garden views from the rear window, ensure maximum light on timber floors, cornicing, ceiling roses, picture rails and a pair of pleasant, low-key cast-iron fireplaces with tiled insets. The windows have working shutters.
The kitchen is an agreeable space to the rear with off-white ceramic tiled floor, cream fittings and big windows. It has a nice, coolly unfussy style about it and is big enough to hold a good-sized table and chairs in the breakfast area. It extends into a sunroom where a patio door opens to the garden. There is a wetroom/family bathroom at this end of the house too.
The first of the three bedrooms, amiable and front facing, is on the ground floor and currently in use as a home office. A second bedroom, pleasantly monk-like at the end of the hallway, has a high window with a deep sill. The main bedroom, cottage-style and ensuite, is on the return. Garden views, sloped ceilings and decorative ceiling beams combine to give it appeal. The front garden, behind its high hedging, has been pebbled and paved to create parking spaces.
