Dublin 6w: The handy location of 33 Kenilworth Park, a mid-terraced Victorian house in Harold's Cross, Dublin 6W, won't be the only attraction of this property, which has a guide price of €670,000.
Fully renovated, it has also benefited from competent and tasteful styling by its interior designer owner, Kate Fogarty. The house will be auctioned through agent HOK Residential on October 16th.
Built in 1903, the house had not been sold until by Fogarty and her partner bought it four years ago. They brought it up to date with new plumbing and gas heating, but despite the mod cons and streamlining, many of the original fittings - fireplaces, floorboards, windows - have remained intact. The spare elegance, in subtle colour and natural material, harmonises excellently with the older features.
A door to the left opens from the hall into a livingroom illuminated by sash bay windows. A generous square arch opens into the connecting diningroom; both feature their original marble fireplaces, flanked by in-built shelves and the original floorboards.
French doors at the end of the diningroom signal the way to the wooden deck of the garden. With inset lights and squares for plants studded into the border, the deck extends down the side of the house to the flagstone-covered garden, in which further squares for flowers and shrubs have been cut. The kitchen was redesigned by John Downs of Beyond the Hall Door. Spacious, with room for table and chairs, the kitchen has cream cabinets with stainless steel fixtures and a teak worktop, as well as a double Belfast sink and an Ariston cooker fitted into a brick arch that once harboured the boiler.
With a guest toilet recently installed underneath, the stairs up to the first floor lead to the back bedroom and bathroom, with power shower and heritage fittings. Another set of stairs goes to the next level, with two large bedrooms and a smaller room currently used as a baby's room which could be converted into an en suite bathroom. A final staircase ascends to the converted attic, with a large, hall currently housing a desk and computer, and a cosy room with a painted panelled ceiling and Velux windows.
