A four-bedroom house laid out over three levels near the centre of Dún Laoghaire was built in 2016 and rented for about a year – but has the feeling of a new home.
Currently unfurnished, it has a simple layout, very neutral decoration and good fittings – oak doors, triple-glazed Munster Joinery windows, smart bathrooms and an A3 energy rating.
The 180sq m (1,937sq ft) terraced house with cut-stone front is for sale for €695,000 through agent Vincent Finnegan, who says there is already a bid in at the asking price. Its location is a selling point: down a gated laneway off Corrig Avenue, opposite the Garda station, and close to the corner with George's Street, Dún Laoghaire's main street.
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The front hall, floored with cream porcelain tiles, opens on the right into the kitchen, fitted with cream units and a brown polished granite counter top. The kitchen/living/dining room is an open-plan L-shaped space, and the only room downstairs. The living/dining area, opening directly off the kitchen, runs the width of the house. It’s oak-floored and has a solid-fuel stove set into an alcove at one end. A door opens from the other end back into the hall; new owners might partition the space to create a smaller den/study.
Granite flagstone
French windows open to a wide rear garden, with a granite flagstone patio and steps up to a lawn surrounded by high stone walls.
There’s a smart downstairs toilet and an understairs storage space off the front hall which currently accommodates a washer and dryer.
Steep stairs lead to the first floor, off which are three bedrooms: one is a smallish double, the other two are decent-sized doubles, both with walk-in wardrobes and en-suite shower rooms. The family bathroom has a bath and shower and a porthole window.
More steep stairs lead to the second floor, and a large carpeted attic bedroom: it has four deep Veluxes and an en-suite shower room with smart white brick tiles. There is some under-eaves storage off the small top landing.
An electronic gate opens into Sydenham Mews, where there are quite a few houses built between the Victorian houses of Corrig Avenue and Northumberland Avenue. Number 22 comes with three – and at a pinch, four – parking spaces to the front. There’s a €500 annual service charge.
