Superbly-maintained bright, spacious five-bed in leafy Foxrock

A house that backs on to the ninth hole of Foxrock Golf Club is for sale for the third time in 16 years. The owners, who have lived in the house since 1993,  withdrew the house from the market twice, extending and modernising it afterwards. Nendrum is a bright, open-plan house with a large modern kitchen, huge conservatory, lots of glazed double doors leading from one room to the next and five bedrooms, four of them with smart tiled en suites.

The couple who own Nendrum say they are fussy about keeping things well, and it shows. Although it’s been a second home to their six grandchildren, the house, decorated in shades of cream and ivory, with cream carpets and polished oak floors, is in virtually walk-in condition. The garden has been just as carefully tended, with colourful hydrangeas blooming everywhere.

Nendrum,  a 465sq m (5,000sq ft) five-bed on 0.35 acre is for sale by private treaty through Savills for €2.45 million. It was withdrawn after auction in 2000 at €1.6 million, and put up for sale just before the property crash for €4.6 million in 2007/2008.

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The owners believe it was the first house built on Knocksinna, a short cul-de-sac of mostly striking art deco houses off the busy N11. The more traditional Nendrum was built in 1935 at the very bottom of the cul-de-sac as a retreat for Benedictine monks, and is named after a monastery in Co Down.

Even on a grey, rainy morning, Nendrum is bright. The front door opens into a wide, bright hall with glazed doors into the drawingroom, which has picture windows looking into the garden. Two sets of French doors open from here to the marble-floored conservatory, which has lots of room for sofas, a dining table and a striking modern gas fireplace.

The smart Danish Design kitchen has a long arched skylight, a  timber and polished granite-topped island unit, a dishwasher at convenient waist height, and a utility room. There’s an interconnecting diningroom and sittingroom off the kitchen; downstairs accommodation also includes a large study and fully-tiled shower room by the front door.

The five bedrooms open off a wide landing upstairs: all but one are en suite, and there’s  a shower room outside that one. The main bedroom has mirrored Sliderobes and an en suite  with a Jacuzzi bath, separate shower and twin wash-hand basins.

The carefully-tended lawned back garden has high hedges and lots of mature plants and bushes. There’s a large patio beside the house, a pergola designed around a willow tree and a secret garden at the end with a suntrap patio and a separate building that could be a study, gym or playroom. A gate near the back opens on to the golf course.

There’s lots of room in the gravelled front garden to park inside electronic gates and good security, as well as CCTV cameras, Nendrum is on the same road as the Indian and Portuguese embassies.