CO DUBLIN €2.35M:Restored rather than renovated, a large period house with a top southside address just needs some furniture
IN A ROAD of handsome houses and well-stocked gardens, number 9 Waltham Terrace, Blackrock, Co Dublin doesn’t disappoint.
Built in 1836/7 to house civil servants rushing to live by the coast after the 1834 opening of the Dublin to Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire) railway line, it has all the grace and craftsmanship of the times that were in it.
The vendors, who bought in 1983 from a Ms Hand who had lived there since 1895, say it was in “1890s condition” at that time and that they subsequently “restored rather than renovated”.
This work included upgrading sash windows, adding internal doors, flooring and wall decoration where necessary, all of it with due diligence to the originals.
Newly painted and mostly emptied of furniture, the house presents a cream-coloured blank canvas to work dreams on, with high ceilinged rooms, timber floors, curving staircase with a deep, brightly lit stairwell and conservatory with black-and-white tiled floor to play with.
Everything from window shutters to original fireplaces and a suitably contemporary kitchen are in working order.
Over a floor area of 242sq m (2,600sq ft) there are four bedrooms, four reception rooms (including the conservatory) and a kitchen/breakfastroom.
Savills is looking after the private treaty sale and the asking price is €2.35 million.
The appeal of the house begins outside where you must pass a lavish wisteria and rambling banksia rose (first grown in Kew Gardens 200 years ago) to get to the front door.
The hallway has original wide pine floor planks, as do the front-facing reception rooms. In the drawingroom there is an original white, marble fireplace and, in the diningroom, an original fireplace of black marble.
The kitchen/breakfastroom has maple floors and so has the adjoining family room from where a nice bay window overlooks the rear garden.
Worktops in the kitchen are of thick, polished wood and there is an old range as well as more contemporary fittings.
The conservatory, originally an orangerie, is to the side and faces venerable, albeit healthy, mimosa and apple trees and, to the front, an ailanthus or tree of heaven.
The main bedroom has an original, slate fireplace, timber floor and windows to the side and front. The en suite bathroom is finished in Italian marble.
Two of the other bedrooms are to the rear while the fourth, front-facing bedroom has an en suite and built-in wardrobes.
There is off-street car-parking to the front.
9 Waltham Terrace, Blackrock, Co Dublin
Spacious period house with four bedrooms, four reception rooms and mature gardens
Agent: Savills
