Detached dormer for €995,000

Number 10 Hyde Park is a dormer bungalow that dates from the mid 1950s when it was built by hotelier PV Doyle. The detached property has been super-sized by its current owners who doubled the square metreage of the original property and completely altered the layout when they refurbished the house in 2003. They bought it from its original owners in 1988.

“All that remains of the original building is the outside side wall,” says the owner.

The brick exterior has granite steps and red brick pillars and there are glass brick windows in the hall. The house measures 185sq m (2,000sq ft) and has another 59 sq m of attic space, currently divided into two rooms and a shower room.

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In the formal sittingroom to the front they added a bay window and moved the fireplace, installing a sizeable sandstone design with a large brick grate.

In the kitchen they added height by vaulting the ceiling and introducing light into this middle room via a central pane of six roof lights and another two on the gable wall. The ceiling height is 14 feet and features tongue and groove pitch pine. The painted cream units have a breakfast bar, granite worktops and a gas hob.

Off the kitchen is a cosy TV room with French doors leading out to a small deck that enjoys a southerly aspect to the front of the house where there is a mature garden with specimen trees. There are no houses on the other side of this cul-de- sac, so the front is very private.

There is a study that could be used as a bedroom but the house has five other bedrooms.

To the rear of the property there is a garden room that overlooks a well-tended and planted space that includes several Indian sandstone patios designed to catch the sun at different times of the day and a frog pond, all that remains of the outdoor swimming pool installed by the previous owners.

Above the garden room is a bedroom. The current owners use it as a home gym. The master bedroom has garden views and a smart shower en suite that was upgraded five years ago.

There is a second double at this level and two more attic bedrooms upstairs. These share a shower room.

The couple are the second family to live in number 10. The property is asking €995,000 through SherryFitzGerald.