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Irish Times
08-07-2025
- Lifestyle
- Irish Times
Modernised Edwardian four-bed across from the park in Harold's Cross for €950,000
Address : 76 Harold's Cross Road, Harold's Cross, Dublin 6W Price : €950,000 Agent : Mullery O'Gara View this property on The owners of this handsome, modernised Edwardian home had been renting in the area before they got the opportunity to buy number 76 on Harold's Cross Road. Moving in straight away, the couple enlisted the help of an architect to update it for family life. The owner laughs, saying she felt like one of the homeowners featured on Grand Designs as she became pregnant during the renovation process – a common trope on the TV show – and her and her husband had to spend some nights in a hotel when they had no water. The sacrifices they made to accommodate those initial works have paid dividends, resulting in a spacious period home in turnkey condition. As well as its convenient location on the south side of the city, the home comes with a big back garden with mature trees to the rear, providing a sense of bucolic peace while being walking distance from amenities. Extending to 190sq m (2,045sq ft) with four bedrooms and three bathrooms, 76 Harold's Cross Road is on the market through Mullery O'Gara, seeking €950,000. It has a D1 Ber. Past the front yard, bordered by low railings, the redbrick terraced property is accessed up two stone steps. Inside, the high ceilings are immediately impressive, as are the ornate archway and ceiling roses in the hallway. The spacious livingroom sits to the front of the ground floor, benefiting from the box-bay window space; it features the original marble fireplace and wooden floors. A second reception room sits behind that with a window to the rear of the property. It is set up as a TV room but could potentially be a study or playroom. The kitchen/living/diningroom is down a short flight of stairs to the rear, in an extension that was added before the owners moved in. They had bespoke white handleless units installed in the kitchen, as well as an island. There is also underfloor heating beneath non-slip tiles. The bright dining area features a pitched roof with Velux windows, and a built-in bench for seating and storage. There is also a utility room and a WC off the kitchen. READ MORE Front livingroom Kitchen Dining area Garden The room opens up to the 33m-long (107ft) west-facing back garden through glazed sliding doors. A raised patio sits directly outside the doors and leads down to the substantial lawn, with mature trees providing privacy. [ I have noticed blistering on my interior walls. What should I do? Opens in new window ] Back inside, a double bedroom and a modern bathroom as well as a shower room are located on the first-floor return, to the rear of the property. The shower room is painted a clean grey with white wall tiles and grey Moroccan-style patterned tiles underfoot, while the bathroom has a full-size bath – handy for young children – and built-in storage and shelving. Up another half-flight of stairs, the main bedroom suite sits to the front of the property; the owners connected a double room to a single room to create an adjoining dressingroom with floor-to-ceiling built-in wardrobes. There is another double bedroom to the rear and an attic room converted into a double bedroom. The owners have decided to move to be closer to work, but say they will miss the community in the area. When they first lived there, around 2013, there was far less going on in the area, the owner says, but they now have summer and Christmas festivals in Harold's Cross Park, which is just across the road. Parents from the local school often meet for coffee at the cafe in the park, the owners say, and assure me it's nothing like the hilarious sitcom Motherland . With young children, they are also able to walk to several activities in the area, including tennis, football and gym classes. There are also plenty of bus routes to the city centre, with journeys taking about 30 minutes.
Irish Times
29-05-2025
- Business
- Irish Times
Harold's Cross four-bed with south-facing garden for €1.4m
Address : 21 Clareville Road, Harold's Cross, Dublin 6W Price : €1,400,000 Agent : Owen Reilly View this property on The owners of 21 Clareville Road could see the potential in the 1930s house from the first viewing. At the time it had a garage to the side and a single-storey extension, but looking at similar houses in the area, they knew the space was available to go double-fronted and double-height at the back. They moved in 2008 and did the minor jobs to allow them to live comfortably and get a feel for the house. In 2018, under the care of architect Mark Kennedy of K-Design Studio, they did the full renovation, which effectively doubled the original footprint of the house and took the Ber rating up to an A3. Number 21, which is on the market through Owen Reilly with a guide price of €1.4 million, has a floor area of 172sq m (1,851sq ft). The garage has been replaced with two storeys of extra living space and, at the back, the old extension has been replaced with a new improved version with a bespoke zinc-clad elevation. [ Meticulously restored Marino midterrace for €635,000 Opens in new window ] Kitchen Open-plan living space Doors out to garden The front driveway is paved and could fit two cars comfortably, which will be appreciated by new owners, as disc parking has been introduced on the road. The front door opens into the hallway with a polished concrete floor that continues through to the back of the house. To the left of the hall is a livingroom with a cast-iron fireplace and carpeted floors. To the right is a study that would also work as a fifth bedroom as it is beside the downstairs shower room, making it ideal for guests or elderly relatives. READ MORE [ Refreshed Modernist-style terraced home in Dundrum for €900,000 Opens in new window ] The open-plan living space at the back is the full width of the house and is bright with a lightwell in the roof over the dining area and floor-to-ceiling concertina doors out to the garden. The kitchen units are designed by Leicht and at the centre is a large island. Nice features in the room include a prep sink with Quooker tap, a Neff halogen hob and a Caple wine cooler. There is a utility room off the kitchen with extra storage. The transition from inside to outside is seamless, with a polished concrete patio on the same level as the kitchen floor. The south-facing garden has a lawn set in artificial grass that is bordered by mature plants and trees. The house backs on to the playing fields at Harold's Cross Football Club, so it's not overlooked at the back, which is always a bonus in Dublin city. Garden Main bedroom En-suite bathroom Upstairs, the main bedroom has a walk-in wardrobe and en-suite bathroom with a bath and double sinks. There are three more bedrooms on this level and a shower room. The converted attic has a feature dormer window that looks out to the pitches behind and has easy access to the eaves for storage. The A3 rating was something the owners always had in their sights. They say the bills are small and the house is always warm, which is down to the insulation that was fitted, the underfloor heating on the ground floor and the efficiency of the air-to-water heat pump. The house, just off Kenilworth Road, is a 10-minute walk to Rathmines, Rathgar and Terenure villages.
Irish Times
16-05-2025
- Business
- Irish Times
Final BusConnects corridor secures planning permission
The final BusConnects corridor has been approved by An Bord Pleanála almost two years after the application was made and more than 10 years on from the project being announced. The Kimmage to Dublin city centre route is the last of 12 corridors to receive permission under the €4 billion scheme to transform the capital's bus services. However, six routes remain the subject of judicial review proceedings. The BusConnects programme has two strands: a network redesign and the 12 bus corridors. Unlike the redesign project, which involves the reorganisation of services on existing road infrastructure, the corridors require construction to achieve segregation of bus and cycle lanes from traffic. READ MORE This, in some instances, necessitates road widening, the acquisition of property, including parts of front gardens, and the felling of trees. The route from Kimmage in southwest Dublin to the city centre, via Harold's Cross and Clanbrassil Street, is one of the shorter corridors at just 3.7km, but it has been the longest in the planning system. A complex route, it involved the design of four 'bus gates', two of which ban private traffic on a 24-hour basis, while the others are to be in force during morning and evening peak times. [ BusConnects corridor construction to begin in autumn Opens in new window ] The bus-only sections of road, which will involve diversions for private traffic, were introduced to the designs following local protests over the original scheme, which involved significant annexing of parts of front gardens and the felling of a large number of trees. The scheme, which now involves reduced property acquisition and tree removal, includes two new footbridges over the Grand Canal in Portobello and a pedestrian/cyclist boardwalk over the river Poddle in Kimmage. The route was the subject of three rounds of public consultation before the application was made by the National Transport Authority (NTA) in July 2023. More than 80 submissions were made to the board after the application was lodged, and while several were supportive, many residents objected to the traffic diversions that would be imposed through the use of bus gates. Of the 12 corridors, five now have 'full' planning permission and can no longer be challenged in the courts. These are the routes from Ballymun/Finglas, Liffey Valley, Ringsend, Tallaght/Clondalkin and Lucan. Judicial review proceedings are ongoing in relation to six schemes, these are the corridors from Clongriffin, Belfield/Blackrock, Blanchardstown, Templeogue/Rathfarnham Swords and Bray. It remains to be seen if legal action will be taken against the Kimmage scheme. Construction of the first two corridors had been due to start this autumn, but the NTA now says it expects to be in a position to move forward at an earlier stage. Work is due to start on the Ballymun/Finglas and Liffey Valley routes by the middle of the year. Each route is expected to take about two years to complete. 'Reaching this milestone on the BusConnects infrastructure programme is a very positive development,' a NTA spokesman said. 'It's good news for bus customers, good news for communities and good news for the city. It is also welcome from the cyclists point of view, with 200km of cycle tracks to be delivered across the 12 schemes.' Plans for a system of segregated, continuous bus lanes for Dublin were first announced in 2014. In 2017, the NTA published the potential routes for these core bus corridors – which it hoped to have completed by the end of 2019. The government gave the NTA sanction to seek planning approval for the routes in March 2022 and the first applications were made from mid-2022. The Liffey Valley corridor was the first route to secure planning permission in December 2023.
