St Lawrence Road in Clontarf is a leafy street that connects the seafront with the Howth Road. It features handsome Victorian redbricks. Number 58 is a finely proportioned house that is in need of some modernisation. This is an executor sale.
The bay-fronted semi-detached house has lots of fine features starting with a encaustic tiled path and porch, and coloured-glass panelled front door.
The hall and reception rooms are almost 11ft (3.3m) high making the interconnecting rooms feel even bigger than they are.
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The proportions are very liveable. It is very easy to imagine installing yourself in the rooms although the tiled insert in the sitting is quite heavy-looking compounded by a highly decorative mahogany mantle. Originally this room had a white marble fireplace, like the one in the master bedroom above but it was so badly damaged the family removed it.
Folding doors lead through to the dining room, where there is a 1940s style tiled fireplace. It would be tempting to move the black slate fireplace in the back double bedroom into this room and to move the white marble fireplace in the master bedroom into the front room but this would need to be done by a specialist.
On the return there are three rooms, a small sitting room, originally the breakfast room and there is a door out to the back garden from here.
Tiny kitchen
Behind it is a small kitchen, which is positively tiny by modern standards. To its rear is another door outside and a room with an en suite bathroom that has sliding glass doors leading out to the west-facing garden, which is 75 feet long from the back of the house.
There is scope here to do a really contemporary kitchen living cum family room even extending out to the side as the house is set on a really wide plot.
Upstairs on the first floor return there are two bedrooms, both large singles, and the family bathroom with a further three rooms on the first floor that boast similar ceiling heights to the rooms downstairs.
It makes these slumber spaces feel very spacious. The master bedroom to the front has a bay window. The single bedroom next door could be used as gorgeous, light-filled home office or the next owner might be tempted to make it a grand ensuite bathroom.
This is a gorgeously proportioned family home that isn’t too big. You will live in all its rooms.
There’s off-street parking to the front and a really simple garden to the rear.
The house, which measures 180sq m (1,938sq ft) is asking €975,000 through DNG.
