Monkstown: €2m A large Victorian house in Monkstown that has been in the same family for over 100 years is on the market through Lisney with a guide price of €2 million prior to auction on September 29th.
Number 5 Brighton Avenue is just 50 yards from the seafront, between Seapoint and Salthill Dart stations. It's a quiet avenue that runs up to the Monkstown Road, and number 5 is at the end of a terrace of elegant, if slightly faded, Victorian houses. This house has been loosely divided into three flats for many years, but in such a way that it can easily be converted back, since almost all of its glorious Victorian features are intact.
A self-contained two-bedroom flat in the basement could be incorporated back in the main house or could be left as it is, since it has a separate access to a laneway at the side of the house.
It's got a hallway like no other with a flight of wide limestone steps leading up to an inner hallway that's lit by a tall arched window with ruby glass surround. The drawingroom has more ornate plasterwork and its original fireplace.
There are four bedrooms on the upper levels, including the main bedroom with its tall sash windows, coved ceiling and original fireplace.
Overall, it is not a particularly large house with a manageable area 240sq m (2,600sq m) of living space and some lovely views towards the sea from the upper window. There are small, flower filled gardens to the front and the rear, but plenty of open space nearby in the park that has a pathway down to Salthill Dart station and the seafront itself.
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