Great garden - and a mews too

DUN LAOGHAIRE : €2.55M -A WINDING, tree-lined private laneway leads to the garden gates of Cullellen, a late 19th century house off Lower Glenageary Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin

From there the gardens, in a long sweep of charmingly laid out trees, plants, and hedges, lead to the front of the house to be overlooked by a wide bay-window on the first floor and long, floor-to-ceiling windows on the ground floor.

It's an approach that suits Cullellen, a three-storey semi-detached house built, along with its neighbours, in the mid-1880s. For sale by private treaty through Savills HOK, together with a separate mews, the asking price for mews and main house is €2.55 million.

Cullellen is a 194sq m (2,086sq ft) four/five-bedroom house with one reception room and a large open-plan kitchen/breakfastroom/dining area. The 51sq m (543sq ft) mews is alongside the main house but separate, and has a reception room, bedroom, kitchenette, shower room and garage.

Cullellen's original layout is much as it was and, together with original doors, cornicing, windows, fireplaces and floor tiling, gives the house a nice sense of its period. The open-plan kitchen/breakfastroom area, with a wall of windows onto a greenhouse-like planted area, is a light-filled surprise in all of this.

The garden is integral to Cullellen's appeal and, viewed from the French window of the ground floor reception room, is postcard pretty. But it is from the first floor bedroom, with its big bay window, that the garden has most impact, filling what was the original sittingroom with rolling views of not just the Cullellen garden but neighbouring ones too.

The first floor has a lot of period appeal, rambling a bit and with steps to a double glass-panelled door and second front-facing bedroom. A third bedroom, with large Velux, is to the rear. Two top floor bedrooms have high views.

The mews entrance leads directly into a slate-floored reception room from where steps lead to the first floor bedroom which has a vaulted glass ceiling and balcony overlooking the garden.

The garage is to the front at ground level.

Cullellen, Lower Glenageary Road, Dún Laoghaire

Four/five-bedroom 1880s house with large garden and a mews

Agent:Savills HOK