Homes open for viewing this weekend include period gems from the city to the sea, and apartments fitted out with Ikea furniture, writes EMMA CULLINAN
AN EDWARDIAN house, known as Roslyn, at 13 Ailesbury Park, Dublin 4, is in a cul-de-sac that runs between Sydney Parade Dart station and Merrion Road. The large semi has around 250sq m (2,690sq ft) of living space including drawing and diningrooms, livingroom, kitchen/breakfast room and four bedrooms (one en suite). The garden faces south. The house is selling for €1.95m through Sherry Fitz-Gerald.
On view Saturday noon-1pm
THE LAST SEVEN apartments in the 86-home block of the New Bancroft scheme in old Tallaght village have had their price cut and been kitted out with Ikea furniture. Designed by architects O’Mahony Pike, the homes have large windows and balconies. One-beds cost €125,000; two-beds are from €169,000; and three-beds cost from €199,000, through Savills.
On view Saturday, 11am-1pm
A TWO-BEDROOM redbrick house at 17 Reuben Street, Dublin 8, has been extended and renovated, and includes a new kitchen and an attic conversion with Velux windows. One of the two reception rooms in the 92sq m (990sq ft) house has an original cast-iron fireplace. The house has a west-facing patio garden and is selling for €350,000 through Douglas Newman Good.
On view Saturday 11am-noon
THE PRICE of a large Victorian house at 3 Marlborough Road, Glenageary, Co Dublin has just been dropped by €300,000 to €2.45 million. For sale through Lisney, the 320sq m (3,450sq ft) house is in good condition and has kept many of its original features. Both the drawingroom and diningroom on the ground floor have bay windows to the front while a family room has a picture window overlooking the garden, where there is a wood shed and garage. The five-bedroom house costs €2.45 million through Lisney.
On view Saturday, noon-1pm
ON THE market through Sherry Fitz-Gerald at €2.5 million is Balram, a five-bedroom detached house on over three quarters of an acre at 62 Fortfield Road, in Terenure, The house has a generous 407sq m (4,390sq ft) of living space that includes a ballroom with six windows to the front and side, a diningroom, a games room and a tv room.
Period features include decorative plasterwork, and a hand-painted ceiling. The five bedrooms are all doubles and two of them have en suites. There is planning permission for two detached homes in the garden.
On view Saturday, noon-1pm
