Mount Prospect Avenue is one of Clontarf's longest roads curving up from the seafront right through the heart of the Dublin 3 suburb. It is a tree-lined road with many different house styles of assorted vintage. Number 83 is one of 18 houses built in 1930. It is a bay-fronted semi-detached home with sloping roofs and a large garden. It has a guide price of £550,000 (698,500) and is due to be auctioned by Sherry FitzGerald on October 17th.
The four-bedroom house has a great deal of charm and character but is in need of modernisation and new owners are likely to extend. An arched entrance porch leads into a spacious hallway, which has understairs storage as well as a guest toilet.
Off the hall are the main reception rooms. The livingroom to the front has a bay window, a lead fireplace with a wooden surround and high ceilings with coving. Sliding doors lead into the diningroom, which has a similar fireplace and wrought-iron doors leading out to a sunroom.
Also off the main hallway is the breakfastroom, leading into the kitchen. This is a spacious room with a large window overlooking the rear garden but the fitted units are in need of updating.
Upstairs, two of the four bedrooms are doubles with original tiled fireplaces. The bedroom on the return is a single with a distinctive slanting ceiling. The fourth bedroom is also a single and off the landing is a small boxroom. The bathroom is a good size and there is access to an attic from one of the bedrooms.
To the front is a large driveway with a garage and side access. The garden has been well-maintained with well-planted borders. The 170-ft long garden to the rear, however, is particularly impressive. A raised patio area gives way to a lawn bordered by mature trees and shrubs, leading down to a separate kitchen garden. The garden attracts a great deal of light and has a series of nooks earmarked to attract the sun.
The house has aluminium double-glazed windows and is close to shops, schools, a bus route to the city centre and recreational facilities including St Anne's Park and rose garden.
