Number 84 is a restored 1930s three-bedroom house just off the Phibsboro end of the Cabra Road.
The mid-terrace, bow-windowed property was in what the owner describes as a “horrible state” when he bought it 10 years ago. The house was in bedsits and there had been a fire in one. He had to rip out the ceilings, insulate and rebuild them and replaster the walls, and he waxed and polished the doors, architraves and picture rails using traditional beeswax. The property was also rewired and replumbed.
The owner, whose father was a builder, was “in training” from a young age and honed his block and masonry skills on building sites before showing them off in the refurbishment of number 84. The house has two fine interconnecting reception rooms. The sittingroom to the front has a bow window and has a multi-fuel burning stove. The diningroom-cum-kitchen is to the rear.
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It has an Italian reproduction style fireplace and the oak kitchen has granite countertops. Double doors lead out to the small west-facing yard which is laid with 19th- century clay-fired tiles.
Four years after the initial renovation, the owner extended the property to fit the needs of his growing brood, adding a family room to the rear that also opens out to the yard and a separate utility room.
A painted staircase, also lovingly restored, leads to the first floor where there are three bedrooms, all doubles.
The house has uPVC windows to the front while the original windows to the back have been restored. The owner also converted the attic, installing a stained glass panel he salvaged from a period door on the stairs leading up to it to let in more light. It has good ceiling heights and plenty of under-the eaves- storage.
The house is now 102sq m (1,098sq ft) in size and is asking €350,000 through agents SherryFitzGerald. The house is within shouting distance of Dalymount Park, the historic home of Irish football and the address of Bohemian FC, Dublin's oldest soccer club.
It is also near the new DIT campus due to be developed at Grangegorman and the Luas development linking the Luas Red Line with the northern commuter lines at Broombridge.
