Period living with a modern touch for €1.4 million

Family portraits fill the walls of the salon of 74 Moyne Road, a fabulous first-floor room that spans the width of the house. The salon features a damask wallpaper by Cole and Son that was hung with great precision using a plumbob by the owners, retired architect John K’Eogh and his wife, opera singer Rita Harpur.

The baronial hall style pictures hark back to a time when the K’Eoghs resided at Kilbride House, Co Carlow, a circa 1720 Georgian farmhouse that was extended by the family in the 1840s but sadly burned down in 1927.

K’Eogh’s well-connected relatives have become a fine decorative trope in the Ranelagh room. Admiral Richards, the pope of the admiralty, as K’Eogh describes him, in full dress uniform, by AS Cope, is the standout piece.

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He was the brother of Frances de Rinzy Richards who married Col John Henry K’Eogh, the architect’s great-grandfather.

Facing the admiral is General Sir Thomas Molyneux who in 1715 became the first state physician in Ireland.

Three bedrooms

The three-bedroom, three- storey house has two more reception rooms, a fine square space to the front and what was originally the diningroom, now a den, on the ground floor return, accessed via some steps. Both have fireplaces with original mantles and inserts.

Classically decorated to make the most of its Victorian features, flourishes of modernity are evident in the kitchen diningroom extension where double doors open out to the southwest facing garden.

The Siematic kitchen has a checker plate steel floor and is now an architecturally interesting opening that links the chef with guests.

The first of the three bedrooms is on the hall return where the family bathroom, complete with Jacuzzi bath cum shower and separate WC are also located.

The property’s other two bedrooms, a single and a gorgeous double that overlooks the low-maintenance garden are on the second floor. They share a spacious shower room.

While accommodation set over two levels may not suit families with young babies, those with older children will love the arrangement.

The property, which measures 244 sq m (2626sq ft), is on a popular Dublin 6 road and is asking bullish €1.4 million through agents SherryFitzGerald.

Recently sale agreed through agents Owen Reilly for in excess of its asking price of €795,000, number 44 is a four-bedroom period house on the same side of the street.

Parking is on street.