DUBLIN 6 €1.4m:A Victorian house beside Leinster Cricket Grounds and a short distance from Rathmines, Ranelagh and Portobello, has many original features, writes Alanna Gallagher
THIS HANDSOME home at 7 Mountpleasant Avenue Upper is a two-storey over basement property overlooking the Leinster Cricket Grounds.
It's a Victorian house with many original period features including broad timber flooring, centre roses and matching black polished-stone fireplaces in the reception rooms.
The accommodation extends to 193sq m (2,080sq ft) and the property is for sale by private treaty for €1.4 million through agent Felicity Fox.
The location is superb with the villages of Ranelagh, Rathmines and Portobello all within walking distance of the house.
Presently, the hall floor is home to the drawingroom and kitchen where original interconnecting doors open up the space's dual aspects. The Siematic kitchen comes with granite worktops and is to the rear, overlooking the back garden.
A roomy hall leads down to the hall-level return where there is a den or office which could also function as a fourth bedroom.
At garden level there is a double bedroom, bathroom and large granite-stone-walled livingroom with gas fire that has oodles of potential as a self-contained flat, subject to planning permission, as there are separate front and back entrances to this floor.
Alternatively, the next owner could move the kitchen downstairs and open up the space as one big kitchen, dining, living room.
While the reception rooms feel quite grand it is the main bedroom that occupies the best room in the house.
It has a wonderful marble fireplace and large picture window overlooking the cricket grounds. There is an en suite bathroom that has dual access from the landing and the main bedroom. A second, smaller bedroom is to the rear of this floor. A guest toilet is at the very top of the house.
The rear garden is 53ft long, an adequate size for this part of the city. It has mature shrubbery and palm trees, some of which crowd out its potential. Parking is on-street.
7 Mountpleasant Avenue Upper, Dublin 6
Victorian house with many original period features measuring 193sq m (2,080sq ft), and separate living accommodation on lower floor
Agent: Felicity Fox
