Grosvenor Road in Rathgar is a wide, quiet road lined with many different styles of Victorian houses, mostly in pairs or short terraces. What the period redbricks all have in common is that they are very large imposing houses.
Number 50 looks as though it was built by a canny Victorian builder who noticed a strip of land leftover when a terrace of four houses was complete and added this one on to it. It’s quite different from its neighbours – with a feature box-bay window in the front livingroom that makes it stand out.
The owners bought the house in 2007 when it was an executor’s sale and in need of top-to-bottom renovation. They went further, adding a three-storey return which brought the floor area up to 269sq m (2900sq ft).
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The hall floor is the only one where the layout is as it was originally. There are two fine interconnecting reception rooms with marble mantelpieces and decorative cornices. In the new return is the first of the three double bedrooms and it has a large showerroom ensuite, Above it there’s another bedroom and en suite. At the top of the house the layout has been changed dramatically with the entire area transformed into a bedroom suite - with a very large double bedroom at the back, opening into a full bathroom at the front beside a walk-in wardrobe.
Major changes have also been made down at basement level where the extension made space for a very large, family-friendly open-plan eat- in kitchen and seating area. It’s a bright and airy space, thanks to the smart looking and very large pitched rooflight and the glazed doors out to the patio area. There’s an Aga and the handpainted units are finished with a marble worktop. A family room to the front completes the living accommodation. Also down at this well-planned level is a toilet and a utility room. Number 50 Grosvenor Road is for sale for €1.75 million through DNG.
The current owners divided the rear garden creating a mews site at 24 Spireview Lane and they got planning permission which they have since renewed.
It is for sale, separately but also through DNG, for €300,000. Number 50 – which unusually for a Dublin 6 period redbrick isn’t a protected structure, is in walk-in condition, decorated sympathetically to the style of the house. Parking is on the street although there is planning permission for off- street parking to the front.
