DUBLIN 2/€1.6 MILLION:TUCKED OFF Upper Leeson Street where it merges with Morehampton Road is a landmark terrace of just six houses. Number 65 is a late Regency house, second-last on the terrace as you're heading towards town.
The well maintained four-bedroom home is a grande dame property that wears its original features with pride. Measuring 225sq m (2,416sq ft) the property has an asking price of €1.6 million through agents Colliers.
Granite steps lead up to a fanlight door where the lead panels have been carefully restored. The hall has broad plank floorboards, decorative cornicing and ceiling rose and a fold-down butler’s table, all original features. The interconnecting reception rooms have the same decorative flourishes. Stripped pine fold-back doors connect the drawing room in the front to the rear dining room. Both rooms have period fireplaces, one with a coal-effect gas fire.
The sash windows are extra wide filling the rooms with light. The busy thoroughfare outside is slightly audible helped by the property’s position set back from the road.
The fourth bedroom is on the garden floor return. Downstairs at garden level there is a cosy study or family room to the rear that overlooks the garden.
The country-style kitchen to the front has a Chinese slate floor, and original cast iron range. The wood units include a floor to ceiling corner pantry and a sizeable Belfast sink.
The family bathroom is on the first floor return and contains a period claw foot bath and fireplace.
The bedrooms on the first floor all have wonderful coved ceilings. There are two sizeable doubles; one overlooking the front, the other the garden, both big enough to contain large free-standing wardrobes and tallboys. By comparison the third room feels small and less grand in its decor. All three have period fireplaces and shutters. From the rear bedroom you can spot the Dublin Mountains, across the hedges of neighbours’ tidy gardens.
The house is decorated in strong period colours throughout, and some stronger shades won’t be to everyone’s taste, particularly followers of the church of Farrow and Ball.
The property was re-roofed in 2008. There is a lovely landscaped granite walled back garden. It is south by southwest facing.
65 Upper Leeson Street
Description: Late Regency four-bed, original features
Agent: Colliers
