An Edwardian terraced house a short walk from the seafront in Bray has been owned by one family for about 70 years. It has many intact period details but needs a major makeover to turn it into a comfortable modern home. Number 14 Galtrim Road, a 187sq m (2,012sq ft), five-bedroom house, is now for sale through DNG for €670,000.
The front door has stained-glass panels, as does the deep box bay window in the livingroom off the right of the entrance hall. There’s deep coving in the high ceiling and the fireplace has a timber surround.
Three steps lead down from the hall to the kitchen, which has what appears to be the original terracotta-tiled floor and white brick chimneybreast. Over the door is a bell panel, often seen in homes of this period – although it’s hard to see where servants lived in this relatively small house. There’s an old-fashioned utility space off the kitchen, and a large diningroom with an ornate white timber fireplace at the very back of the house: a narrow door in the bay window here opens into the back garden.
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It’s likely that new owners will want to revamp the back of the house completely, opening up the space, creating a whole new kitchen/utility area.
Upstairs, there's a view from the landing on the return of the neat green lawn of Bray Bowling Club, just around the corner on Adelaide Road. There are five bedrooms upstairs: the main bedroom has the same deep square box bay window as the livingroom below it. A bedroom at the back of the house has an unusual triangular window overlooking the back garden. There's a family bathroom and separate toilet on this floor too.
Steep steps lead up to a floored attic, which has potential for conversion into a study or bedroom.
The 24m-long narrow back garden is sheltered by high walls and has plenty of mature trees and shrubs. There is access from here to a pedestrian lane off Wyndham Park and residents’ parking outside on Galtrim Road.
