A late Victorian terraced redbrick in Ranelagh has a small, very neat square of gravelled front garden behind a tall clipped hedge that hints at a meticulously presented house beyond the grey front door. Number 24 Beechwood Avenue Lower has been revamped over the past two decades while keeping many of its period details. Decorated in a smart, minimal style with a mix of modern and period furniture, it looks ready to walk into. The 153sq m (1,647sq ft) three-bed is for sale through Sherry FitzGerald for €1,195,000.
Previous owners had refurbished and extended the house when the current owners bought it in 2011 for €760,000; the kitchen and bathrooms have been upgraded since then. The Ber is D1. Rooms are painted in neutral shades of white and grey, with colour provided by artwork, rugs and cushions.
The front hall has a parquet floor and decorative centre arch: it opens on the left into the interconnecting drawingroom and diningroom, also parquet-floored, which have matching grey marble fireplaces with coal-effect gas fires. A wide sash window in the drawingroom overlooks Beechwood Avenue; glazed French doors in the diningroom open to steps down to the back garden.
Three steps at the end of the hall, past a small downstairs toilet, lead to the long kitchen/breakfastroom/sittingroom at the back of the house: it’s a bright space with two floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors opening out to the garden at the side. Kitchen units are white, there’s an integrated fridge freezer and washing machine and a breakfast bar with seating for two divides the space. At the far end is a small sittingroom with a raised fireplace.
Upstairs, there are three double bedrooms. One on the return has two windows overlooking the back garden and has fitted wardrobes. It’s next to the family bathroom which has a grey/white-tiled floor, a clawfoot bath and a smart shower with a black frame.
The main bedroom and another double are up a few more steps on the top floor. The main bedroom has two sash windows looking over the front garden and a small, smart en suite with a black-framed shower similar to that in the main bathroom.
The back garden is completely paved with sandstone tiles and bordered by high-raised beds with manicured hedges; there are two block-built sheds for storage. A door opens to a pedestrian lane accessed from a gap in the terrace several houses away. There’s a sculpted tree in the small front garden behind a high box hedging.
There is on-street residents’ permit parking on this busy road. The house is close to the junction with Beechwood Road and a short walk to a Luas stop.
