Linking Harold’s Cross to Mount Argus, Kenilworth Park is a thoroughfare that has seen a lot of houses change hands in the past five years, many of them needing complete refurbishment. In that time, property prices have almost doubled.
In February 2012, number 93, a three-bedroom property, sold for €310,000. In June 2013, number 95, a house with the same number of bedrooms, sold for €390,000. In July 2014, the four-bedroom number 39 sold for €597,000. Now number 58, a fine four-bedroom Edwardian house, comes to market at an asking price of €750,000, through agent SherryFitzGerald.
Stepping through the front door is like stepping back in time, as this house has retained almost all of its original features, from the leaded side panels in the front door to the coving and dado and picture rails.
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Original polished wood floors lead through to fine interconnecting reception rooms with good ceiling heights and a lovely pair of leaded, glass-panelled sliding doors between them. The livingroom to the front has a deep box bay window and a marble fireplace. The fireplace in the diningroom was originally in one of the bedrooms. Off this room is a small sun room.
Terracotta tiles
The layout of the breakfast room and scullery kitchen remains as it would have been when the first owners moved in in 1905. Terracotta tiles floor the rooms. The radiators from the central heating system, installed in the 1930s, are still in use and the pipework is visible throughout the property.
The next owners will be tempted to knock the two rooms into one but should factor in the sheds to the rear of the scullery, easterly in aspect, that could make a useful place to install a family room should they want to extend the property’s 185sq m (1,991sq ft) size. A toilet under the stairs would increase the number of bathrooms from one to two.
The garden, while small, is filled with foliage. A potted-plant bay tree, gifted 25 years ago to the owner, a retired teacher, by a student, has become a feature and is surrounded by geraniums, nasturtiums, camellias, clematis, Michaelmas daisies, winter-flowering jasmine, snowdrops in spring, and bluebells in early summer. It looks gorgeous, yes, though it leaves little room for children to play. However, Mount Argus Park is just at the end of the street.
The house has four bedrooms: two doubles and a single on the first floor and another double on the hall return, along with the separate bathroom and toilet.
All these rooms have good ceiling heights. Only the double on the return has built-in wardrobes.
There is also an attic room, where more roof lighting could completely transform the space.
Parking is on street.
