Decorated in warm hues with a separate living room and kitchen, this 95 square metre, two-bedroom house offers a lot of space in a much-coveted Dublin 3 location.
With a great pub, neighbourhood restaurant and café all at the end of the street, this corner of Dublin 3 is one of the capital’s most coveted inner suburbs.
North Strand’s main street used to abut Dublin’s shoreline.
The city’s original sea wall still forms part of the street where you can enjoy first-class pizza and pasta at family-run Da Mimmo, pop into Cloud Café for a Cloud Picker flat white in the morning and in the evenings from Thursday to Sunday, there’s a personality switch to the Night Shift, which serves a menu of cheese, terrine and other nibbles, served alongside Italian wines.
Address: 14 Northbrook Avenue Lower, North Strand, Dublin 3, D03 KW63
Asking price: €475,000
Agent: DNG Fairview
Cusack’s is a kind of jewel of an old-school ale house that is filled with seafaring ephemera and clippings from the Nazi bombings of the quarter in 1941.
It is said to have been the place Blessed Matt Talbot took his last drink before he embarked on a life of sobriety, according to Dublin by Pub.
It has live music on the weekends.
With Mud Island, the community garden that grows fruit and veg and the recent addition of German supermarket chain Lidl to nearby Ballybough, you have almost everything you need on the doorstep.
The Dart at Connolly is about a 10-minute walk while the Dart at Clontarf is about a similar distance in the opposite direction.
Number 14 Northbrook Avenue Lower is a Victorian split-level terraced house with some period features, including a decorative hall arch that sets the tone for the look and feel of the property.
The front reception room is well balanced and feels spacious thanks to its 3.4 metre ceiling height.
In other examples of this style of house, some homeowners have dropped the ceiling height to give additional space at the upstairs level – some have even hived in a bathroom.
It’s a clever reworking of space, but it does detract from the current volume.
The room is painted a restful shade of fudge that is soft and serene with the coving and ceiling picked out in a warm white.
This room has a stove set into the fireplace.
Down a set of steps is the broken plan dining room cum kitchen.
Here, the walls are painted a cameo pink painted with bookshelves in the alcoves on either side of the chimney breast.
It leads through to a contemporary-looking kitchen.
This has a black and white tiled floor and the same soft shell pink colour used in the splashback tiles.
The family bathroom is to the rear of it and is lit by a large overhead rooflight.
From the kitchen, glass doors open out to a private garden that includes a garden shed and barbecue area.
The garden has a northerly aspect, but the houses in this neighbourhood are low-rise enough to allow the sun to shine over the roof and into the back. Nothing is overshadowing it.
Upstairs, there are two double bedrooms. One has the yellow brick of its chimney breast exposed, which brings in colour and texture.
The front facade has been repointed and the sash windows upgraded.
There is residents' disc parking on the street.
Agents DNG Fairview is seeking €475,000 for the two-bedroom, one-bathroom house, which has a D BER-rating and extends to 95 square metres.
The house last sold in 2021 for €385,000, according to the property price register.
