DUBLIN 6: €1.25M: A well-proportioned three-bedroom house comes with its own coach house in the back garden
A HOUSE for sale on any of Dublin’s Georgian squares is always of interest and Mountpleasant Square in Ranelagh, Dublin 6, is particularly interesting because unlike many of the others, it’s entirely residential.
The railinged square – which isn’t square-shaped at all – in the middle is home to a tennis club and the roads are lined with trees. Terraces are made up of a variety of houses, from large three-storey double fronted homes to smaller two-storey versions.
Number 19 is particularly interesting and unusual. Tucked away in the corner of the square, it is a wide house with two tall sash windows to the left of the fanlight-topped front door and three upstairs. The big bonus in this three-bedroom property is that at the end of the long back garden is the original coach house – a rare find in a square where most of the coach houses have long been demolished and sold off to make way for modern mews.
Sherry FitzGerald is selling 19 Mountpleasant Square for €1.25 million.
The proportions in this house are lovely. Off the wide hall is the airy formal livingroom to the front which opens into a diningroom. At the back of this is a small study.
Upstairs the three bedrooms are all doubles; the largest bedroom has a full-sized en suite with clawfoot bath. It’s another indication of how keen the owners were to maintain the period feel of the house. On up again is a floored attic with Velux windows. The good-sized return is home to the main bathroom, concealed behind a mural-covered door. There’s a utility room in the hall return.
At basement level there are two main rooms, the kitchen, which is country style, with pine units and an AGA, and a livingroom at the back. There’s also a shower room and good storage.
The old fashioned garden, bordered by the original brick wall, is a treat; there is a view from the back of the house of the pretty double-fronted, two-storey brick coach-house which opens out to Prices Place, now an established mews lane. Parking is on street.
19 Mountpleasant Square, Ranelagh, Dublin 6
Two-storey over basement with formal livingroom, country-style kitchen, long back garden and orignal coach house for €1.25 million
Agent:Sherry FitzGerald
