Number 18 Clontarf Road is a sizeable semi-detached house that first came on the market last April in an executor’s sale. It is now for sale again - at €640,000 through Savills, with an option to buy the last 30ft of the 110ft rear garden.
The 1930s bay-fronted semi measures 130sq m (1,400sq ft) and has some nice original features including internal doors, wooden mantelpieces and lots of natural light. Because of its position on the busy Clontarf Road just beyond the Dart bridge, the noise of traffic is audible, even with the doors shut, but improved double or triple glazing would effectively deal with this.
The house has interconnecting reception rooms to the left of its decent-sized hall. The sitting-room feels bright even on a dark February day.
You can also glimpse the sea from it’s bay window. Sliding interconnecting doors lead through to what would have originally been the formal dining-room. Glass doors lead out from it into the rear garden.
The kitchen is a wide room with a low-set arch, about six feet in height, dividing the breakfast area from the kitchen. A supporting rolled steel joist will be needed here to raise its level flush with the ceiling height.
A side door leads out to the back garden where there is a shed and outside wc, and a north-facing lawn that is bisected by a wooden fence. The full length of the garden is about 110 feet, but here’s the catch. The last 30 feet, the portion of the garden that is behind the fence, isn’t included in the asking price. To buy this will cost an additional €19,000, making €659,000 the full asking price of this property.
The traffic noise from Clontarf Road is also audible in the back garden, and the Dart line runs adjacent, so you can hear its rattle too, something that won’t appeal to noise-phobes.
But if you can get over that blip this is a house with a lot of potential that is already relatively well laid out.
There is also a garage to convert, but all is not what it seems here. A large wc off the hall eats into the original garage space, but again this could be reconfigured. While north-facing, the garden is big enough to catch the afternoon sun in parts. The location, within a five-minute walk of Fairview, St Anne’s Park, Westwood gym and Clontarf Dart station, is excellent.
Upstairs there are four bedrooms, three doubles and a box room. The bathroom is separate to the wc, as was standard in these houses. There are gorgeous sea views from the bay window in the master bedroom.
There is off-street parking for one car.
