Number 29 Frankfort Avenue has been a rental for some years so seasoned househunters will know to expect a property that might need updating.
However, this three-bedroom redbrick could just as easily be given a lick of paint and moved into because when it was last renovated – by the looks of it over 10 years ago – it was modernised to include an extended eat-in kitchen, with maple flooring, which opens out to the rear garden, a good-sized family bathroom (enlarged by taking a slice of the bedroom on the return) and the general updating a Victorian house needs to make it a comfortable family home.
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For many househunters looking for a period house on a popular Dublin 6 road, it will tick a lot of boxes: 134sq m (1,442sq ft), two interconnecting reception rooms with high ceilings and period features, a very large bedroom to the front with two sash windows, a second double to the rear and a single in the return. Though in this price bracket – Sherry FitzGerald is asking €995,000 – it’s likely that new owners will want to do more than freshen up the paintwork.
The kitchen layout is galley-style which could be changed in an enlargement of the ground-floor return, and the upstairs bedrooms are missing some period features such as their chimneypieces.
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Also, the BER rating of D2 suggests that other improvements leading to greater energy efficiency could be worked on. Any work will be greatly facilitated by the access to the rear – there is a vehicular lane running behind the property and owners could drive in to the 24m (80ft) back garden if they wished. Otherwise parking is on street.