Edwardian for enhancing

The Edwardian redbrick semis on Willbrook Road are fine houses with period features aplenty. Number nine retains its distinctive white painted porch save for the fact that a previous owner moved the front doors out into the porch and added a set of glass inner doors to buffer the beautiful hall from the elements. The front door has lovely leaded glass panels. The side panels remain in their original position.

The property has a gorgeous wide hall with a double arch dividing the public and private areas of the house, with one leading to the kitchen, the other upstairs to the bedrooms. The house has two good sized interconnecting reception rooms with lovely cornicing and timber floors.

The sittingroom enjoys the bay window to the front and has a mahogany fireplace. The one in the dining room to the rear also has its original brass hood. Both have tiled inserts and the doors on each have brass fingerplates and doorknobs.

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Set on a wide plot the house has a sizeable and under-utilised side passage that can be directly accessed from the diningroom.

The kitchen to the rear has wood countertops and an impressive ceramic Belfast-style Franke sink, which the owners say was crucial to keeping the rest of the counters tidy.

They added glass panels to the side and French windows out to the garden that greatly increase the amount of light the room gets. The next owner might like to extend the house out to the side rear to expand this space to wrap around into the side passage and create a large living-dining-kitchen area, subject to planning.

The garden has a southerly aspect and is about 65ft long and 40ft wide – but it’s not fully exploited.

A detached building housing a vaulted garage, utility room and separate toilet offers great scope to convert into a fine granny flat or apartment for a grown-up child, again subject to planning.

The house sprawls over three levels, so much so that when the children were young one of them constructed a bell system to announce mealtimes to his sister who lived at the top of the house in the fifth bedroom, located under the eaves on the second floor.

There are three bedrooms on the first floor, a double, a single and the master with another, currently a study, on the hall return. The family bathroom and separate toilet are also on this level.

The property measures about 179sq m (1930sq ft) in size. It has a G Ber rating and is asking €875,000 through agents DNG.