Glenageary: €700,000: Most of the Jennings-built houses on Silchester Park, Glenageary have been modernised and extended, their new porches and uPVC windows diluting their classic post-war identity.
Not so number 97, which is visually as it was in the 1950s, apart from the converted garage. Large private front and back gardens are among this house's best assets. Lisney is expecting this 122sq m (1,325sq ft) three-bed semi to fetch at least €700,000 at auction on June 29th.
A four-bedroom semi in quite good condition on the same avenue sold late last year for around €800,000. Families target Silchester Park for its substantial mature gardens and leafy suburban character, a short walk from the buzz of Dún Laoghaire. Any amount of good primary and secondary schools are within cycling distance and the Dart takes you to town in 35 minutes.
The downstairs accommodation includes a sittingroom with an original cream-tiled fireplace and sliding doors to the diningroom. This also sports a tiled fireplace and French doors to the back garden. A fourth bedroom in the recently-converted garage will probably end up as a family sittingroom.
There is also a downstairs shower room which is wheelchair accessible and has a heated towel rail. New owners are likely to revamp the kitchen / breakfastroom area, installing new units and upgrading the fittings. A door opens from here to the back garden.
Upstairs, all three bedrooms are a fair size, two fitting a double bed with ease and the third a good single room. Wardrobes are fitted in the two larger rooms. The family bathroom has a bath and over-bath shower attachment.
The walled front garden is sheltered, with lawns, flower beds and a driveway. A side gate leads around to the back, where the private walled garden of 88ft is a lovely sylvan space, with shrubs, trees, lawns, a shed and a stand of firs at the bottom end.
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