Victorian elegance in Blackrock for €1.35 million

Unusually ornate plasterwork in the centre of the diningroom ceiling is a distinctive and attractive feature of a house on Lower Prince Edward Terrace in Blackrock, Co Dublin. Number 15 is an elegant example of earlier Victorian houses with most of its original period details – high ceilings, decorative cornicing, marble fireplaces, working shutters – intact.

Built in 1843, it is one of the terrace of tall white houses set back from busy Carysfort Avenue, opposite Carysfort Park. Now number 15, a 259sq m (2,788sq ft) with two storeys over garden level, is for sale by private treaty through Savills for €1.35 million.

The tall grey-blue front door opens into a bright hall lined with the owners’ artwork; a fanlight over the front door is an attractive colourful stained glass feature. The drawingroom on the right of the hall has two very tall and gracious sash windows in the drawingroom and a white marble fireplace with black slate inset. Double doors open into the interconnecting diningroom, which has a black marble fireplace: the decorative plasterwork fanning out from the ceiling’s centre rose has a delicate design.

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At the end of the hall a door with stained-glass panels opens into a study with walls painted a vivid terracotta. Double doors open on to an outside deck from which steps lead down the back garden.

The rustic-style kitchen at garden level is also at the back of the house. Floored with large tiles, it has a Rayburn cooker set into the chimneybreast. A door opens into a sunroom where two walls are painted with countryside scenes. Double doors open into the back garden.

There’s a utility room and a shower room at garden level, and a large comfortable family room at the front of the house.

Upstairs there are three double bedrooms and a family bathroom. The large main bedroom spans most of the house’s width and has two tall sash windows looking over Carysfort Avenue.

The room described as the fourth bedroom is long and narrow, with a wall of built-in wardrobes and a ladder leading to a loft-style bed. New owners might be inclined to turn this into a walk-in dressingroom.

A sandstone patio in the back garden opens on to a neat lawn bordered by a flagstone path and flowerbeds, leading to a pergola with a seat at the back stone wall. There is room to park two or three cars in the gravelled front driveway.