SANDYMOUNT : €1.2MAN EARLY Victorian four-bedroom terraced house in Sandymount is for sale by private treaty through Felicity Fox for €1.2 million. At the top end of Bath Avenue near Haddington Road and Shelbourne Road, number 23 is on the right-hand side as you go towards Sandymount.
Its pleasing façade with traditional Georgian door, fanlight and three sash windows set in sand-coloured brick does not prepare you for the large proportions of the interior reception rooms. The total floor area is 156.5sq m (1,685sq ft) but the high ceilings make it seem much bigger and the house has been restored using its original features to best advantage.
The drawingroom, with fine original Victorian fireplace and polished floorboards, is connected to a correspondingly large diningroom by nearly floor-to-ceiling mahogany folding doors. The fireplace in the diningroom has been removed. There are ceiling cornices and picture rails in both of these rooms. French doors at the back lead into a high vaulted sunroom extension built into the yard beside the return which in turn leads into the kitchen, thus ensuring a flow throughout the downstairs and making it perfect for both family living and entertaining. The kitchen is very bright, being lit both from the sunroom and the south-facing garden.
It shares the same pale floor tiles as the sunroom and has fitted units with gas hob, electric oven and dishwasher. Also on this level are a cloakroom and large shelved hot press.
On the first floor return there is a bedroom/study and the family bathroom with painted timber floor and panelling, bath and shower.
The first floor landing is lit from above and also by an ocular stained glass window in the return. There are three bedrooms off it, all with polished timber floors. The main bedroom is a large square room at the back and there are two in front; one double and a smaller single over the hall door, both with six-pane sash windows.
Outside, the house has a railed front garden with gate and off-street car-parking. The back garden is on two levels, with paved patio outside the sunroom. The high walls surrounding it are pale rendered or old cut-stone with pretty maturing trees giving complete seclusion.
23 Bath Avenue, Dublin 4
Three-bedroom Victorian house with original features
Agent: Felicity Fox
