Arbores, a five-bedroom detached house at Stillorgan Road, Foxrock, with a glorious garden, is a property that definitely lives up to its name. Arbores is Latin for trees and the lushly-planted garden has room for at least 50 fruit trees and several rare species of plants.
Sherry FitzGerald is quoting £1.2 million (€1.52 million) for the house and almost three-quarters of an acre of gardens, including a tennis court and a flower-covered loggia. The 2,400 sq ft house is a comfortable, well-kept home.
Because the 80 ft front garden of Arbores is set well back from the road, traffic noise is unexpectedly muted and there is parking on the gravelled drive for several cars.
The exterior walls are smothered with clematis and well-grown planting surrounds the front entrance. Solid teak windows have been installed throughout the house, which was built in the 1930s and extended in the 1980s.
Inside, the entrance hall is large enough to take a piano and a cocktail bar. A bay-windowed drawingroom spans the depth of the house with two sets of French doors to side and rear terraces.
The pumpkin-coloured diningroom has a marble mantlepiece. Across the hall is the kitchen-breakfastroom and utility room, with French doors to a flagged terrace. There is also a sittingroom.
The five bedrooms are all a good size and have fitted wardrobes and dressing units. The main bedroom suite has an en suite bathroom.
The 212 ft back garden of Arbores is exceptional. There is a flagged terrace with a lily pond, two fountains and a built-in barbecue.
Half-way down the lawn is an enclosed tennis court, surrounded by fruit trees. Clematis and climbing roses cover the perimeter fence. Permission has been obtained to extend the house and the wide side entrance suggests further development potential, subject to planning approval.
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