Light-filled five-bedroom home on Garville Avenue for €1.6m

“I love the light in this house,” says the owner of 82 Garville Avenue Upper in Rathgar , Dublin 6, who has lived here since 1978. Located at the end of a redbrick terrace, named Connaught Terrace on the Ordnance Survey, it benefits from windows on the west side, including two on the stairs, and a rooflight over the top flight. And from each of the four levels you can see through windows on another.

The garden, with a long lawn to buffer the house from the road, is defined at the front by the end of an unbroken run of Victorian railings and at the side by an old wall along a grassy lane, which has a metal gate that renders it accessible only to about 20 keyholders.The pretty facade has a double brick arch over the door, and four darker string courses. The baby-blue front door with its original bell opens to reveal the soaring hall and the light defying the pouring rain.

The hand-built solid wood kitchen units are painted off-white and topped with black granite. There is a sink and dishwasher in the island, and the original fireplace houses a vast four-oven Aga. The fifth bedroom is at the top of the house, full of well-considered storage and with a shower en suite. From here you can see across treetops, rooftops and local church spires to the city. “You’re living in town but it’s like being in the country,” says the owner, contrasting the abundance of local amenities and her average four-minute wait for a bus with her grandchildren’s joy at picking blackberries down the lane.

Mullery-Ogara Rathgar Dublin-6

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