Large Victorian redbrick in Clontarf for €1.2m

In a quiet, leafy road running to the seafront, 142 Seafield Road is a gracious house in a terrace of four similar Victorian redbricks with bay windows and imposing, porched-in front doors.

Agent Savills, quoting €1.2 million, says the price is a “composite of three to four recent sales” in the area.

An internal courtyard between the front reception rooms and a rear reception room is a nice touch and makes for an interesting and pleasant feature in what is a quite formal, light-filled house.

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The vendors have carefully nurtured and preserved the original design alongside its decorative features, including staircases, ceiling plasterwork, original fireplaces and doors.

At 219sq m (2,357sq ft), number 142 has five bedrooms, three reception rooms, kitchen/dining room, two bathrooms, attic room and 55ft rear garden with vehicular access. Windows were replaced in 2012.

The original features are intact and unchanged in the main reception rooms, distinguished by a couple of typical and impressive dark marble fireplaces with decorative tile insets. A wide bay window to the front has working shutters and the cornicing in both rooms matches wall panels. A door from the formal diningroom leads to the inner courtyard. In the hallway a high, wide arch marks the dividing point between the front and rear of the house.

Light fills the kitchen/dining/family area through lots of Velux and side windows. The extensively fitted kitchen has a marble floor while the family area has a wall of windows with door overlooking the garden’s raised decking and high sheltering foliage.

A long and winding stairs climbs to No 142’s three storeys, or four floors counting the attic. The first return, signalled by an arch similar to that on the ground floor, has a bathroom from where a short stairs leads to a bedroom from where a second door leads back to the landing and more stairs to a couple of front-facing bedrooms with build-in wardrobes and long sash windows.

A further turn in the stairs leads to a second return and fifth bedroom (in use as a leisure room) overlooking the rear garden. Yet another turn in the stairs leads to the attic room where two large Velux windows give views across the river to the ESB chimneys and distant mountains.