Number 4 Fairfield Park is likely to appeal to families trading up looking for more space â bedrooms and living accommodation â in Rathgar, an enduringly-popular suburb thatâs always been well served by transport and close to several schools. Recent years have seen the village become livelier with new shops and restaurants.
The current owners of this four-bed mid-terrace redbrick dating from 1900 have lived here for 35 years, buying in 1986 for the equivalent of about â¬85,000, not an insignificant price for a house at the time. With a small park just opposite and little traffic it is, says the owner, a particularly family-friendly road with good neighbours.
The kitchen
Many other improvements had been made to the semi-detached property by the current owner before that, not least restoring ceilings and other period details, and most strikingly building a two-car garage to the side, detached and finished in cut-stone granite, with a slated, pitched roof reminiscent of an old coach house. As it seems wasted on cars â and there is ample parking for several to the front of the house â new owners might consider converting this lovely little building for other uses, a home office maybe, studio or guest accommodation, subject to planning.
Upstairs there are three very large bedrooms â the fourth bedroom is down at garden level â as well as a shower room and a separate bathroom. While new owners might consider the addition of an en suite, the proportions of the rooms with their period features are lovely left intact. High ceilings are a feature of this house on all three levels.
Top DNG agents depart to set up rival in Dublin 6W Pat Mullery and Deirdre O’Gara’s departure a blow to DNG’s flagship agency in Terenure
Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 06:00
The latest lockdown may have put a dampener on the residential market’s new year, but one ambitious duo are not allowing it deter them as they take the plunge and venture forth with a brand new Dublin estate agency.
Pat Mullery and Deirdre O’Gara, two DNG stalwarts with more than 50 years in the trade between them, have departed the mothership to set up shop in the heart of their Dublin 6W stomping ground. The new agency, Mullery O’Gara will operate from a premises housed in the former Age Action shop in Terenure. It’s a dramatic departure. Mullery has a reputation as the undisputed King of Resi in the area, and the low-key Galway man has expertly steered countless buyers and sellers through hundreds of sales down the years.