A one-bed artisan cottage has optimised every square centimeter to deliver multiple living options. Should your needs grow, there is still room to extend.
Dublin home buyers shopping at the under €400,000 price mark are in the bear pit where demand still vastly exceeds supply.
Trying to find something that you can afford and that you might be able to stay in as you move through life's various phases is an especially difficult nut to crack.
Address: 48A Eugene Street, The Coombe, Dublin 8, D08 X3T9
Asking price: €350,000
Agent: Moovingo
Which is what makes 48a Eugene Street in Dublin’s Liberties an interesting proposition.
Just off Cork Street and bounding the Coombe Hospital, the end-terrace is a smartly laid-out one-bedroom artisan cottage.
It opens directly into the open-plan living cum kitchen, which has a warm wood coloured kitchen featuring shaker-style doors.
There’s a contemporary-style raised hearth and room for a full-size dining table, so you have the physical space to have friends over.
Double doors lead out to a paved, triangular-shaped terrace. Double gates open onto the street. This may originally have been used as off-street parking, but the addition of the patio doors and raised deck will have reduced its width, no longer fitting a car.
The space is more valuable as a potential place to extend out into, in time. There may be the possibility to add a roof terrace above too, subject to planning permission.
The en suite bedroom is at the back of the house. Dual aspect, one of its windows overlooks the terrace.
Above it is a very smartly converted attic space that also has an en suite bathroom.
If you’re a solo buyer, you could take over the attic and use the rent-a-room scheme to help with the mortgage or towards saving to try to add an extension in a few years.
If you’re buying as a couple, the attic gives you a home office and a room to use on the nights that you’re not getting on or one part is snoring the house down. It's a place you can host friends when they come to stay.
Cork Street has been transformed over the last two decades. It now includes several apartment developments, and even the derelict Master Brewer’s house, the last grand house in the Liberties, at number 10 Ardee Street, has been rehabilitated with a contemporary extension added by conservation architects Sheehan & Barry.
You can shop for plants for your new digs at Urban Plant Life, one of the area's stalwarts.
Agents Moovingo is seeking €350,000 for the property, which extends to 63 square metres, including its attic space. There is residential disc parking on the street.
