The cluster of streets around Casimir Road is one of Harold’s Cross’s most desirable locations. Number 25 is a fine-sized Edwardian house with all the good looks and generous proportions of its era.
The owners bought it in 1999, when it was still in bedsits, and converted it back into a family home. It was the hall and box bay window in the main reception room that sold the property to them, and with good reason.
The front door has leaded glass that beams warm light into the hall. The main reception room to the front is a good square space with a beautiful box bay window that has original leaded glass panels that match those in the front door. While they replaced all the other windows in the house with triple-glazed sash designs in keeping with the house, they couldn’t bear to remove this original one, and the house is all the finer for it. They added a heavy interlined curtain to keep out any winter draughts.
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The room has an arts-and-crafts-influenced fireplace with a decorative art-nouveau brass hood and painted tiles.
Fold-back doors lead to the interconnecting formal diningroom, where there is another fireplace original to the house.
Sliding doors and some steps lead into an open-plan kitchen/livingroom, designed by the man of the house, a chef. This makes great use of the walls for added storage, while managing not to make the kitchen feel too cluttered. The room is glazed throughout with a bank of roof lights adding further illumination.
The house has three bedrooms, one on the hall return, where the family bathroom is also located.
The master bedroom is to the front and has a bright en suite bathroom and a walk-in wardrobe where there used to be a box room. This set-up doesn’t detract from the room’s original size.
Steep flight to the attic
There is a good attic room, accessed by a set of steep stairs. The attic passes the headroom criteria, but the gradient of the stairs doesn’t. This is probably the house’s only small flaw.
Thanks to all the renovations, the zoned heating systems and the underfloor heating in the kitchen, the property has a C1 Ber.
The back garden is good and wide and, although it is east-facing, gets sun in a decked area to the rear.
There is pedestrian rear access and parking out front is on-street.
The house, which measures 166sq m (1,792sq ft), has an asking price of €710,000 through agents DNG.
