Houses devoid of furniture can feel cold and unwelcoming, and rooms can appear smaller than they are when furnished. Number 34 Dartry Road would have benefitted from some staging to help viewers visualise living there.
However, due to the great internal proportions, this blank canvas offers huge potential when one sees beyond the out-of-character fireplaces, humble kitchen and walls crying out for new overcoats.
It is the great sense of space, and room to extend, that will attract buyers to this 218sq m (2,350sq ft) property.
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The two reception rooms have a multitude of period features, including leaded bay windows, high ceilings with cornicing and picture rails, and original pine flooring waiting to be re-sanded.
Two of the five bedrooms are of impressive proportions and have had shower rooms – albeit in need of facelifts – sympathetically installed which do not detract from the symmetry of the rooms. They are the only rooms to retain original fireplaces.
The small kitchen, outdated but with an old Aga, needs to be modernised and there is ample room to knock into an old scullery and utility room for extra space. The generous rear garden could easily accommodate an extension to the kitchen area (as next door have done), subject to planning.
The house has a garage – which from the handsome exterior appears to be an internal room – to the left of the front door. New owners can simply knock through the wall in the wide hallway to incorporate this space into the house.
While the windows need replacing, the internal and front doors are in good condition.
Houses on Dartry Road tend to become homes for life and only four have appeared on the market in the last five years, all selling for well over the million mark.
Number 34 lies close to the junction of Orwell Park, and is for sale through DNG with an asking price of €1.45 million. While in need of some updating this spacious house could be transformed into a very fine family home.
