12 Burlington Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

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Description

A beautifully maintained family home, this Victorian period residence is a hidden gem in a city centre location.

Number 12 Burlington Road is located within walking distance of Upper Baggot Street, Leeson Street, St Stephens Green, Ballsbridge, Donnybrook and excellent transport links.

This property has been carefully maintained by the present owners with great attention paid to its period features, including fine examples of cornicing and plaster work, original fire places and mantel pieces, picture rails, windows and overall general repair.

What makes number 12 unique is its large footprint, generous garage to the side, off street parking for up to 5 cars, a wide sunny rear garden, vehicular access to Waterloo Lane and a single storey granite mews, which is plumbed and wired to be additional accommodation/home office. Also, the garden level of this property has full permission for Commercial use.

Features

• Original features throughout make a very good impression.
• Gas Central Heating
• Large Garage to the side
• 22 metre private rear garden
• Single storey mews building to the rear with mains water, drainage and electricity.
• Vehicular access to Waterloo Lane
• Working shutters throughout
• Commercial use at garden level.
• Plot size 688 sq metres
• 276 sq metres of accommodation, not including garage and mews.

Accommodation

Entrance hall: 2.79m x 4.135m
An elegant hall with a fine period ceiling, beautifully decorated with acanthus leaf ceiling rose and frieze work.

Internal hall:
Accessed by french doors from the Entrance hall, and leads to the guest bathroom, Drawing room, Dining room, kitchen and stairs to rear garden.

Bathroom:
Fully tiled with WC, framed hip bath and WHB.

Dining Room: 6.373m x 4.763m
A bright room overlooking the front garden with sash windows complete with working shutters. The focal point of this space is the marble mantelpiece and original adjustable brass grate levered canopy and over mantel mirror.

Drawing room: 4.263m x 5.95m
Through double doors and to the rear of the property, with a matching marble fireplace and fine cornice and ceiling rose, a view over the private and leafy rear garden completes a delightful formal reception room.

Kitchen: 3.693m x 5.76m
To the rear and two steps down from the rear hall floor, with windows overlooking the side and the rear of the house, a green AGA has pride of place in this well-loved kitchen, with white high and low level units, plumbed for dishwasher, washing machine and with a serving hatch to the main hall.

First Return:
A pleasant landing with arched window looking over the rear garden.

Bedroom Four: 3.694m x 2.9m
With vaulted ceiling, window overlooking rear garden and polished floorboards. Presently used as a study/home office.

First Floor landing:

Master Bedroom: 4.248m x 5.943m
With marble mantelpiece, polished floorboards and large sash window, with working shutters overlooking the rear garden.

Bedroom Two: 6.372m x 4.747m
To the front of the house this is a very large bedroom with marble mantelpiece, polished floorboards and two large sash windows with working shutters.

Bedroom Three: 3.693m x 2.778m
Off the First Floor landing is a smaller landing with steps down to a single bedroom. This single bedroom has a window overlooking the side of the house.

Second Return:

Family Bathroom: 1.945m x 3.021m
Fully tiled with windows on three sides, a framed bath, WHB and WC.

Garden Level:

The garden level is accessed from the main inner hall through a door at the top of the stairs. The hall at garden level has an original large limestone slate floor and currently shelved for a large library of books. The hall leads to Bedroom Five, Bedroom Six, Family room, garden level hall, Guest Bathroom and garage.

Bedroom Five: 3.401m x 3.545m
To the rear of the property and with a window to the rear garden. Polished floorboards.

Bedroom Six: 4.248m x 5.943
Under the Drawing room, large sash window built in storage on either side of fireplace.

Family room: 5.907m x 4.747m
A large and pleasant room at the front of the house, with original granite fireplace, gas stove insert, original tiled floor, two sash windows and doors leading internally to the garden level stairs and a further door to the garden level entry way.

Guest Bathroom: 1.922m x 1.762m
Recently modernised, with modern tiling and fixtures, including full bath with shower fitting, WC and WHB.

Garden Level Entry Way: 2.794m x 4.135m
With matching windows, tiled floor and leading to the Family room and internal hall.

Garage: 3.706m x 12.246m
A very generous and fully functioning garage with room for two cars, workbench and good storage. A door to the rear of the garage leads to the rear garden.

Mews: 8.011m x 5.394m

Outside:
To the front cast iron gates, railings and mature rose bushes bound a gravelled drive, with parking for several cars.

The rear garden is a very private, large and leafy space, with path to the side, well tended lawn and planted beds on all sides. In addition, there are also mature plum, pear and apple trees. Towards the back of the garden, the site increases in width and the back wall is split - to the left is a vehicular gate to Waterloo Lane. To the right is a single storey modern granite mews building. This is presently used as a garage, and includes a full mechanics pit, but is also plumbed, wired, access to mains water and foul drainage and has full PP to be used as additional accommodation for the main house.

Directions

From Leeson Street, turn left after the Burlington Hotel, into Burlington Road. The subject property is the last house on the right hand side, before the road splits towards Mespil Road and Waterloo Road.