Home on Heytesbury Street

73 HEYTESBURY STREET, DUBLIN 8 €750,000

RIGHT now, Dublin 8 is one of the city’s most desirable post-codes, and Portobello is where everyone wants to live. It’s easy to understand why. You’re within walking distance of the city centre and could get around on foot or by Dublin City Bike.

You’re 15 minutes’ walk from Grafton Street and St Stephen’s Green. But there’s no need even to venture that far, because Portobello pretty much has it all when it comes to shops and restaurants.

Camden Street is home to proper food shops such as Liston’s, and there are small butchers and vegetable shops too, the kind that everyone wants to live nearby.

When it comes to places to eat, the resi- dents of Portobello are spoilt for choice. As rents and key money have grown too expensive for independent restaurateurs in the area around South William Street, many of the city’s most exciting new restaurants have opened here. On Camden Street itself there’s Pickle, the best Indian restaurant in the city, bar none, Delahunt, and new arrival Hang Dai, while the tiny Assassination Custard at the junction of Heytesbury Street and Kevin Street is a budget-friendly lunchtime spot. There’s Bibi’s cafe, Bastible, Gaillot & Grey ... the list goes on. There’s even a cafe that caters for dogs: Pupp on Clanbrassil St.

And for the new owners of 73 Heytesbury Street, there’s the possibility of living on the doorstep of all these delights, in a substantial double-fronted period home with 193sqm of living space and off-street parking to the rear. No 73 is currently in four self-contained apartments, but there’s permission to turn it back into a family home. AGENT: O’Connor Shannon (01) 496 8111