Number 3 Thornhill Road is a house in almost original condition. With 1930s styling, good ceiling heights and original doors and architraving, it opens into a decent-sized hall with a small, windowed cloakroom to the front left. The reception rooms interconnect, having been opened up fully in the 1970s or 1980s to create a large dual-aspect space with a door opening directly out to the garden from the diningroom. There is an open fire in the sittingroom to the front.

The house has a small scullery-style kitchen with a beautifully simple painted cast-iron fireplace that would look lovely in the livingroom. The house measures 104sq m (1,119sq ft) but there is scope to extend into the 13.5sq m detached garage. It would benefit from glazing to the front and rear because morning light washes the front of the house. Space to the side of the house extends to 4m.

The house’s best feature is its garden, a gorgeously old-fashioned north-facing design, 26m in length, filled with mature trees. It slopes upwards and is lawned over split levels, and a meandering path leads up to an old summer house.

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Beguiling space

Extending to the side of the house would avoid the loss of any of this beguiling space. There is scope too to convert the attic.

Upstairs there are three bedrooms, two good-sized doubles and a single with a separate toilet and family bathroom in which the bath has been replaced by a sizeable shower.

The house needs an insulation upgrade throughout. The house next door has a big double-storey extension almost doubling its size, and there is likely potential to do the same here, subject to planning. A two-phase renovation – a simple one to refresh now and a substantial extension in a few years’ time when funds might allow it – could be the smartest way to go.

The property is for sale for €795,000 through DNG.