A large Georgian terraced house at 113 Baggot Street, Dublin 2, that sold for around £350,000 four years ago is back on the market with a guide price of £1.5 million. The double-fronted redbrick house, which is close to the corner with Upper Fitzwilliam Street, has been lavishly refurbished since it was last for sale. Now in walk-in condition, and with three parking spaces to the rear, it should appeal to the growing number of wealthy buyers looking for city centre homes. In 1996, it was sold by a Dublin doctor who had lived there with her family since the 1950s. A charming but idiosyncratic house, it had the kitchen on the second floor and many of its original features intact.
Selling agent Tom Day of Lisney describes the house, now being sold by an international businessman, as "stunning" and it will certainly stun anyone who viewed it the last time around. Built in the 1790s, the redbrick house has been given a new lease of life with its bedrooms and bathrooms decorated to five-star hotel standards and its basement cellars converted to a series of useful rooms. The main rooms, as well as the staircase, hall and landings, are decorated with exquisite plasterwork. There is a a magnificent double drawingroom at first floor level that is almost 40 ft long and has matching marble chimney-pieces at either end.
First impressions, from the doorstep, are of a very large house, but most of the building is only one room deep. There is a diningroom and custom-built kitchen at hall level, an impressive library off the first landing, the double drawingroom on the first floor and two bedrooms each on the second and third floors. The basement level now houses two studies, a large utility area, a wine cellar, shower room and kitchenette. The hall has an unusual vaulted ceiling and a Portland stone floor.
The diningroom, with its twin sash windows overlooking the street, has a simple black slate fireplace at one end and a deep arched niche, decorated with a riot of plasterwork flowers and garlands, at the other. The kitchen, rather a dark room, has a full range of fitted units. The drawingroom is decorated with muted sage green walls, thick pile carpet, and heavy damask curtains, which, along with those elsewhere in the house are to be included in the sale.
The second floor bedrooms share a large shower room, while those on the third floor have the use of a bathroom that also has a power shower.
Leading off the first landing is a lobby with a cloakroom and access to a small courtyard at the back of the house. There is access from here to the parking spaces.
