Updated Victorian charmer with period pieces in Booterstown

A two-storey, two-bedroom house, built around 1890, is one of four semi-detached brown-brick houses in front of a group of Victorian cottages in Booterstown, Co Dublin.

Modernised by its owners, 75 Booterstown Avenue, Dublin has a smart new kitchen, recessed lighting, and an en suite with the main bedroom, but retains its distinctive original features.

Houses like these, built by landlords – in this case, the Earl of Pembroke – for their estate workers and labourers, have smaller versions of features seen in grander period homes of the era. Number 75 has sash windows with working shutters, stripped and polished timber floors, ceiling coving and picture rails.

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75 Booterstown Avenue, Dublin

The 73sq m (786sq ft) two-bedroom house is for sale for €595,000 through Sherry FitzGerald.

A brown PVC front door opens into a small front hall and through a glazed door into a slightly L-shaped living/diningroom, with the dining area in one corner. Two of the walls are painted a dramatic red; a fireplace has a brick surround and a stove inset.

Cream kitchen

A door from here opens into a high-gloss cream McNally kitchen with granite worktops, integrated appliances and a very deep skylight. There’s a small utility space next to a tiled bathroom with a bath off the back of the kitchen.

A patio door opens into the landscaped back garden, private behind stone walls. Paved with sandstone, it’s bordered with raised beds filled with shrubs. There’s pedestrian side access from the front garden.

The two dormer bedrooms are up steep stairs to the right of the front door. The main bedroom, like the livingroom, has dramatic red and white contrasting walls. It has built-in wardrobes, a sash window with working shutters looking over busy Booterstown Avenue and a tiled en suite shower room. A second small bedroom could be a study.

There is a railed front garden in front of the house and street parking. The house is almost opposite Gleesons pub.