Adjacent to baked goods mecca, Russell Street Bakery, Gaelic games fans will go gaga for this perfectly presented two-bedroom cottage in the shadow of Croke Park, Drumcondra.
Russell Avenue is a quiet residential street of redbricks that, via side streets, links Lower Drumcondra to Jones Road, one of the main entrance points to the theatre of dreams that is Croke Park, GAA HQ and a venue for some of the most memorable concerts in the city centre.
This very residential part of redbrick Dublin 3, favoured for its proximity to Drumcondra, the city centre also has one of the best bakeries in the city in the neighbourhood.
Purveyors of fine baked goods, Russell Street Bakery, make and bake sourdough, brioche and focaccia that is so good that there’s a line in place before it opens at 7.30 am on weekends.
It sometimes stretches almost all the way to the Jones Road entrance.
Address: 3 Russell Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 3, D03 EW40
Asking price: €545,000 (€8,516 per m²)
Agent: Sherry FitzGerald Drumcondra
Run by Thibault Peigne, who started organic bakery Tartine, now stocked in some of the city's top restaurants and supermarkets, this neighbourhood bakery is the Brittany native’s showcase of his baking skills with no commercial constraints.
And the good burghers of this part of Dublin 3 are all the richer for its existence.
Such is its popularity that a sister bakery has opened on Parnell Street.
Number three is a well-balanced single-storey cottage at the Croaker end of the street and within warm bread distance of the bakery.
This style of very late 19th-century artisanal cottage is far more voluminous inside than its single bay exterior would have you believe.
They also have good ceiling heights and large windows for the size of the rooms.
The home is a smartly appointed, two-bedroom, one-bathroom terraced cottage.
It opens into a roomy hall, and the first of its two bedrooms is at the front, in what would have originally been one of its two reception rooms.
This is a large and lofty space, luxuriously big when you consider the overall footprint for the house is 64 square metres. This is the principal bedroom.
The room to its rear is the sitting room.
It is smaller in size, but the aspect is gorgeous with French doors leading out to the small but south-west facing yard that abounds the Croke Park Hotel, scene of lively celebrations on All-Ireland Sundays.
From here, a glass balustraded staircase leads up to an attic room, a light-filled space thanks to the bank of rooflights on the southern side.
This is a gorgeous space that could become a really nice office, should you work from home.
Under building regulations, the attic space can’t be called a bedroom, but this doesn’t detract from the value it adds to this property.
It includes under-eaves storage and extends to almost 13 square metres of additional space.
At the back is the eat-in kitchen. Its cabinetry is set in an L-shape, and large sliding glass doors open from here out to the yard.
This is the place where the successful buyer will devour proper butter croissants and other pastries.
There is a shower room to the rear of the kitchen.
The property has been staged for sale by Vanya McCarthy of Stage My Home.
Parking is on street.
Agents Sherry FitzGerald is seeking €545,000 for the D1 BER-rated residence.
