Twice as nice and now twice the price in Monkstown for €1.75m

Mid-19th century three-bedroom Victorian home completely renovated and modernised

74 Monkstown Road, Co Dublin
74 Monkstown Road, Co Dublin
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Address: 74 Monkstown Road, Co Dublin
Price: €1,750,000
Agent: Vincent Finnegan

The owner of 74 Monkstown Road has some startling “before” pictures of his now beautifully renovated Victorian home.

Dark, damp and missing many original features, the mid-19th century house was in very poor condition when he bought it in 2010 for €815,000. It’s unrecognisable now – renovated and modernised to the last detail and stylishly decorated so that new owners will have nothing to do.

74 Monkstown Road, Co Dublin
74 Monkstown Road, Co Dublin

It’s a protected structure so the work was protracted and detailed – but the owner got what he wanted including replacing the uPVC windows with historically sympathetic double glazed sashes.

Work included commissioning the Dublin Mould Company to replace missing decorative ceiling plasterwork  in the hall and rear reception room and  sourcing cast iron radiators.

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74 Monkstown Road, Co Dublin
74 Monkstown Road, Co Dublin

Victorian two-storey over garden level houses tend to follow the same layout but this is slightly different – the grandly proportioned front reception room has two windows facing onto Monkstown Road and another tall sash to the side looking out to Monkstown Parish Church.

View from roof of 74 Monkstown Road, Co Dublin
View from roof of 74 Monkstown Road, Co Dublin

There’s another gable window upstairs with that same church view in a lovely open space at the top of the stairs. Also upstairs are two double bedrooms, an en suite and bathroom. A dramatically tall-round headed window throws light onto the staircase and in the hall level return there’s an office space looking out over the back garden.

74 Monkstown Road, Co Dublin
74 Monkstown Road, Co Dublin

Major work took place down at garden level where the floor was dug down for insulation but also  to increase the ceiling height. The third bedroom is down here – a large double adjacent to a bathroom, with both located to the front of the house.

74 Monkstown Road, Co Dublin
74 Monkstown Road, Co Dublin

A small extension at the rear – with an exposed granite stone feature wall – makes for a large, well-designed open-plan kitchen, dining, living space, floored with marble tiling with a wall of glazed doors opening out to the newly landscaped rear, north facing garden.

74 Monkstown Road, Co Dublin
74 Monkstown Road, Co Dublin

The custom built timber kitchen with its Lacanche stove and large stone-topped island is designed for serious cooking and relaxed entertaining. There’s a utility room in the return on this level.

74 Monkstown Road, Co Dublin
74 Monkstown Road, Co Dublin

When the house changed hands in 2010 the garden was intact but it has now been sectioned off and a contemporary style mews, which is not part of the sale, has been built. To the front there is parking for two cars.

74 Monkstown Road, Co Dublin
74 Monkstown Road, Co Dublin

No 74 Monkstown Road is for sale through agent Vincent Finnegan for €1.75 million.

Bernice Harrison

Bernice Harrison

Bernice Harrison is an Irish Times journalist and cohost of In the News podcast