A refurbished three-bedroom terraced house on Sandymount Road, Dublin 4, is likely to fetch up to £400,000 when it is auctioned by Hamilton Osborne King on June 8th.
The Regency style cottage, number 45, is at the town end of Sandymount Road - a brisk 15minute walk from the city centre. It is in very good decorative order and has a sunny 100-ft-long back garden.
The house last came on the market in 1995 and fetched a strong price at the time - £231,000. That seems a relative bargain today, and with demand for smaller period homes close to the city at an all-time high, the property is likely to attract keen interest in the run-up to auction. The house has been extensively refurbished and is in walk-in condition. It has around 1,300 sq ft of living space and an interesting layout, with an extended kitchen at the back of the house opening directly into a sun room. The drawing room and interconnecting dining room are to the right of the airy entrance hall. Each of these rooms has a long, double-glazed window, picture rail and a cast-iron fireplace with marble hearth and tiled insets. The rooms are divided by double-folding doors.
To the left of the hallway there is a good-sized bedroom with two lots of built-in wardrobes, and a shuttered window. Further along the hall is the second bedroom, this one with a smallish rear window, built-in desk and shelving and another picture rail.
The main bedroom is at the top of a short flight of stairs. It is a pretty room with dark timber beams across the white slanting ceiling. A window with a sill made from old wood overlooks the rear garden. The en suite is brightened by a large, Velux window and walls which are partly panelled in white-painted tongue-and-groove, and partly in white tiles.
The kitchen/breakfast room is a long room with a warm terracotta tiled floor. The units are cream-painted timber with fashionable stainless steel handles and drawer pulls. The fitted appliances will be included in the sale.
A step up, through a brick-built arch, brings you into a sun room with wood-panelled ceiling and sliding doors to the rear patio and garden. The family bathroom is directly off the kitchen/ breakfast room. It is a long narrow room with cream-painted wainscoting, a cobalt-blue tiled shelf and a large, fitted wall mirror. Light comes in through an overhead skylight.
The long back garden is enclosed by low stone walls topped with timber fencing covered in dense creepers. There is off-street parking in front of the house.
