Extended Rathfarnham home comes with even more room to improve

Asking price: €1.195m

Agent: Sherry FitzGerald (01) 495 1111

​The elaborate chapel at St Columba’s College in Rathfarnham was designed in 1880 by the renowned British architect William Butterfield.

A few miles down the road, his name lives on in street signs for Butterfield Drive, Grove, Park, Crescent and Avenue.

Number 13 Butterfield Avenue is not quite what you might expect of a 1930s-built home.

Following a recent renovation, the detached house now spans 2,120 sq ft, including a rear extension and an attic conversion.

If new owners want yet more space, it comes with full planning permission to further extend the property.

Even with the recent rear extension, there’s still a 135 ft-long back garden that winds all the way down to the River Dodder.

To the front, off a gravelled driveway, a porch leads through an original stained-glass 1930s front door into the entrance hall.

From here, the property takes a leap in time to the 21st century in some style.

To the right off the hallway is a bedroom and bathroom, and to the left are two reception rooms.

The rear extension is given over to an open-plan kitchen/dining/living space with dual aspect windows and floor-to-ceiling sliding doors, a central island, American-style fridge-freezer and tiled flooring.

Upstairs are two double bedrooms (one en suite) and a single bedroom. Above that, the converted attic is currently in use as a home office.

Following recent upgrades, which brought the BER up to B2, the house has underfloor heating downstairs, a new gas boiler and a smartphone CCTV system.