RATHGAR: €1.35M:A THREE-STOREY house at 5 Frankfort Avenue in Rathgar,Dublin 6, is an excellent example of its type: it has generous proportions, has been carefully refurbished and the period details are intact.
The 248sq m (2,665sq ft) house is for sale at €1.35 million through Felicity Fox.
The first family who owned it, from when it was built in 1884, liked it so much that they stayed for over 100 years.
The four-bedroom house, which was refurbished in 1994 by the current owners, is entered via a large light-filled entrance hall with timber flooring and ornate plasterwork.
To the left of this are interconnecting reception rooms with matching marble fireplaces, timber floors and sash windows with shutters.
There is stained glass in the door to the toilet on the hall level return. There is also a bedroom/study with cast-iron fireplace here.
The garden level has its own entrance and houses the quarry-tiled eat-in country-style kitchen with painted units, Stanley range and appliances by Bosch, Zanussi and De Dietrich.
An archway leads from the kitchen to a livingroom with an open granite fireplace big enough to hold the range that used to live here. There are French doors to the garden.
The three bedrooms are at the top of the house, two to the back and one to the front. One of the back bedrooms has a maid’s bell, which could be useful if you can persuade someone in your household to wait on you (perhaps you could train the dog – Pavlov style).
The bathroom on the first floor return is home to cast-iron elements, including the fireplace surround and the clawfoot antique bath.
The garden is about 97ft long and has a lawn, several fruit trees, plenty of shrubs and a shed. There are two patios paved in quarry tiles which were salvaged from the house. At the end of the garden there is a covered carport accessed through electric gates onto Maxwell Road.
- 5 Frankfort Avenue, Rathgar, Dublin 6
- Two-storey over basement redbrick Victorian house with three/four bedrooms
- Agent:Felicity Fox
