Dublin 8: €980,000 The house at 22 Lennox Street, Dublin 8, is just a stoneground loaf's throw from the Bretzel Bakery.
The ability to get squishy buns across the road is just one of the comforting features about this Victorian terraced four-bedroom house. It's for sale by auction on June 16th, through Gunne estate agents, with a guide price of €980,000.
The house was bought by the current owner six years ago and has been loosely divided into two separate homes, hence the kitchen in one of the upstairs rooms.
All interventions have been light and have respected the integrity of this period home. It's essentially been stripped back to the basics, which includes a slate flagstone floor in the kitchen to the front of the house.
You enter the house up front steps to the middle floor. The hallway has dark timber floorboards as does the front room overlooking Lennox Street to the south and the room which overlooks the garden to the rear, currently used as a kitchen/diner.
The stairs are lit by a tall window, as is the large room to the front of the house on the top floor, a space which has original shutters, floorboards, and tiled fireplace flanked by alcoves. The room to the rear also has original floorboards, a cast-iron fireplace and generous window overlooking the garden.
In the basement the stone-floor kitchen/diningroom has been insulated. To the rear is another bedroom, overlooking the garden and, en-route to the garden is an understairs toilet and small shower.
The garden has raised beds in brick, a stone patio, neat lawn, gravelled area and a greenhouse. The house, which has recently been decorated, has cream walls throughout and a good level of light.