Rathmines/€2.5m: Number 43 Cowper Road is going to be a much sought-after house, particularly by familes trading up from slightly smaller houses within the Dublin 6 area.
The €2.5 million pre-auction price tag and the fact that the house needs some modernising won't be a deterrent because it has the sort of features that are hard to find so close to the city centre.
It's detached, has one-third of an acre of garden and 326 sq m (3,518 sq ft) of living space. Lisney will be putting it to auction on March 25th. Cowper Road is intersected by Palmerston Road and number 43 is at the quieter, far end of the road, facing the Mageough Home and close to the new Luas line.
The current owner has lived here for 40 years, bringing up her children in what is a suburban family home.
It has five double bedrooms although there is another good-sized room off the first floor return, currently used as a livingroom, that could be used as a sixth bedroom. Beside the main bedroom is a separate dressingroom.
The reception rooms are all good-sized and attractive. The drawingroom is to the left and has a deep bay as well as a marble chimney piece and feels quite grand with its tall sash windows and high ceilings.
On the other side of the hall is a formal diningroom to the front and a smaller livingroom to the back. These rooms are most interesting in that they have a deep decorative frieze over the picture rail.
The back room opens out into a charming wooden verandah and from it there is access down to the garden.
It also opens into the kitchen which presumably was once a butler's pantry, so it is relatively small and old fashioned.
Off the hall, down a couple of steps in the lower return is another livingroom, a cloakroom and a utility room and it's likely that this area will be looked at by the new owners as the possible location for a new family kitchen.
There is access to the garden and the side garage from here. Aside from the kitchen, new owners will also want to put in a new bathroom - there are two now but both could do with some updating.
The back garden is beautiful - apparently a previous owner was a keen gardener so it has a well-stocked deep border around a large, well-kept lawn. To the front, the imposing looking redbrick is well back from the road.
