Solid prospect in Donnybrook for €1 million

A Crampton-built house at 90 Morehampton Road is for sale through Sherry FitzGerald for €1 million. The four bedroom house on Donnybrook’s main street has been in the same family since it was bought from the builders in the 1930s. It has been passed down through the family since then and the current owners took over just three years ago.

These semi-detached houses – there are eight in the same style – have many features typical of Crampton, one of the busiest developers in Dublin in the 1930s, known for building solid, well laid out family homes.

The curved oak front door is an unusual and attractive feature that opens into an inner porch with original red tiled floor. There’s a cloakroom and a guest toilet.

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This redbrick, bay-window house has two interconnecting reception rooms, with a breakfast room and kitchen at the back. Upstairs the four bedrooms are three doubles and a small single, with a family bathroom.

Well maintained

A lovely and unexpected feature of the hall are two tall stained glass windows in a gable wall.

The front garden sets the house back from the road and is lined with tall hedging. Off-street parking is at the rear at the end of the 28-metre garden, where there is a garage – that’s an important feature on this main road.

While the house has been well maintained and decorated it’s likely new owners will embark on a renovation programme, extending at the back to create an eat-in kitchen. Some of the neighbours have added two-storey extensions at the back and new owners may also update the bathrooms and carve out an en suite.

Three very different houses on this same busy stretch of Morehampton Road are for sale at the same time giving buyers an interesting choice.

There’s a modern infill, a detached three-bed with 90sq m (969sq ft), at 4A Herbert Park, Donnybrook, Dublin 4 for €800,000 through DNG. Despite the address this house is on Morehampton Road.

On the other side of number 90, another Sherry FitzGerald sale, this time a four-bed terraced 218sq m (2,350sq ft) Edwardian redbrick at 104 Morehampton Road, for €1,295,000, that has been smartly extended and renovated.