Large home in the foothills of Dublin mountains

Sandyford: €1.5m: Hillcrest Road winds leafily through Sandyford's Dublin mountain foothills, a location which Hillcrest House, on a sloping 0.75-acre off that road and just before Lamb's Cross, makes the most of.

A large 446 sq m (4,800 sq ft) comfortable house, it was built 21 years ago as a guesthouse and has enough bedrooms (13) to make for income potential as well as enough land to allow for development.

Hillcrest House is for sale by private treaty through Sherry FitzGerald which is quoting a guide price of €1.5 million.

The present owners, who have made a family home of Hillcrest House for the last five years, have made it work for them by converting and making self-contained the entire garden level. This now has six en suite rentable bedrooms as well as a lobby and entrance hallway of its own giving it complete autonomy from the main part of the house.

The ground and first floors are taken up by spacious family accommodation with seven bedrooms (four of them en suite), study, three reception rooms and kitchen/ breakfastroom. The rear garden is bounded by high trees and is large enough, pending planning permission for a portion adjoining a laneway, to have a second dwelling developed there.

The main entrance, at garden level, has the oak flooring found in many parts of the house and a wide staircase leading to the ground floor and main living areas. Interconnecting living and diningrooms take up the width of the house, with wide windows at either end giving garden views and, to the rear, views too of Three Rock Mountain.

The livingroom has a high, vaulted and dark beamed ceiling. The beams have recessed lighting. There is a functioning, open fire in the brick fireplace and exposed brick walls. A balcony runs outside the front window.

The bright diningroom has another vaulted ceiling and timber panelled walls. A glass door opens to a sun deck from where steps lead down to the garden.

The Hillcrest kitchen is a homey affair, fully equipped and with more Three Rock Mountain views, a red tiled floor, a wide range of fittings in teak and a wood panelled ceiling. A playroom, to the front and with an oak floor and feature fireplace, was the original livingroom.

The main en suite bedroom has mountain views through windows which wrap around a corner. The white tiled en suite shower has a bidet and basin. On this level, too, there is a second bedroom and a study.

The other five bedrooms are on the first floor. Most have large, Velux windows and the fully equipped family bathroom has green fittings.

The airy, creamy coloured garden level is accessed either through vaulted doors from the main entrance hallway or through its own doorway at the rear of Hillcrest. All of the bedroom doors are of beech, the lobby floor is of light oak and the bedrooms all overlook the gardens.

One of the bedrooms opens to its own, private patio area. All have built-in wardrobes with integrated fridges and tea/coffee making facilities. The en suites are fully tiled.

A tarmac area to the front allows car-parking for a large number of cars with the landscaped gardens all around healthy with bush and shrub. Flowers are coming into bloom in a rockery.