Run the rule over Terenure

No 42 Terenure Park is a relative newcomer to the street. Comprising a mixed stock, mainly of period redbricks and 1940s’ semis, no 42 was built in the early 1990s in what must have been a substantial side garden.

The house has been very well laid out for family life. It opens into a large square hall, something you don’t find in most contemporary builds – and often an undervalued asset. This one is big enough to house a desk and chair and to accommodate a substantial weekly shop/buggies/sports gear and still allow easy access to the rear of the house.

Double doors lead through to a carpeted, formal sitting room where a gas fire in a marble fireplace warms the hearth.

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The second sitting room has doors leading out to the back garden.

To the rear there is a second sitting room – ideal in any family with growing kids. This one has wood flooring, an open fireplace and doors that lead out to the small, east-facing, back garden.

Next to it is a decent-sized eat-in kitchen where the owners installed new Siematic wall and floor units and fresh-looking composite stone countertops about three years ago. Adjoining it is a utility room and a door to the rear garden.

Deceptively large

Decent understairs storage can accommodate every member of the family and at about 185sq m ( 2,000 sq ft) this house is deceptively large, something you don’t really feel until you go upstairs to the spacious landing, a mirror of the hall below. Five bedrooms radiate off it, including the roomy light-filled master bedroom . As well as dual-aspect windows flooding the room with light, the owners have cleverly made the most of the bay window, building in a window seat and under-sill drawer storage. It’s a lovely oasis to escape to, thanks in part to the built-in wardrobes not dominating the space as they sometimes do. It has a small shower ensuite bathroom with a large window.

Two of the five bedrooms are good-sized singles while the other two are decent doubles.

For those who might feel the garden is too small for a gang of kids, it’s worth noting that Eaton Park, a large green space, is at the end of the street and Bushy Park and its acres of playing fields, tennis courts, river walk and skateboard facilities, is little more than a five-minute walk.

The house, which has a D1 Ber rating and off-street parking, is very well located. Just minutes from Terenure village, there is an entrance to Presentation primary school for girls across the street, and a boys’ primary school just through the crossroads.

The property is asking €980,000 through agent Quillsen.