A house at 4 Beechwood Road is for sale through Sherry FitzGerald for €1.1 million. It’s a typical Victorian Ranelagh redbrick, with 2,088 sq ft and five bedrooms.
The same family has lived here for 23 years, and when they moved in, the house was in good condition but in need of some updating. Soon after, they extended at the back, opening up the small scullery kitchen, and adding a large room with a pitched ceiling, so now the back of the house is a family-friendly, open-plan, eat-in kitchen that opens out onto the patio garden.
Off the bright wide hall, with its chequerboard black and white tile flooring, are two good-sized interconnecting reception rooms. The front has a bay window and so with their high ceilings and period features they are comfortable attractive rooms.
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Deep return
It is difficult to know from these classic front- door-three-window redbricks how much space they have inside. This is one of the larger ones and, mostly because of the deep return, has five bedrooms. The room in the first return was originally a bedroom but it was converted by the previous owner into a large bathroom and there’s a freestanding roll-top bath.
Home office
In the second floor return there are two rooms – one is a bedroom, the other is used as a home office, and listed by the estate agents as the fifth bedroom. Further up the house are three more bedrooms, all doubles. There is scope to rework the layout – perhaps moving the bathroom, creating a shower room in a large cloakroom off the hall, and rethinking the two bedrooms in the return – you walk through one to get to the other. Reinstating sash windows might also be on the to-do list.
There is off-street parking to the front – a major plus on these roads; new permission for off-street parking on these roads is difficult if not impossible. Although, as the house is a few minutes walk from the Beechwood Luas stop and Ranelagh is in walking distance of the city centre, buyers may not consider a car a necessity. The north-facing back garden has pedestrian access to a rear lane.
