Monkstown/from €400,000: No two of the eight houses which make up the Windsor Place development at Lanesville, off Monkstown Avenue, Co Dublin, are the same.
Unique houses in what is an interestingly designed development, they have one, two and three bedrooms, range in size from 53-110 sq m (570-1,183 sq ft) and are priced between €400,000 and €730,000. They go on the market today with agent Eoin Deering looking after sales.
A development in which a lot of attention has been paid to detail, design features include the strategic use of glass bricks, vaulted ceilings, mezzanine areas, solid oak floors, Italian marble and tiling in bathrooms and fully fitted designer kitchens. The houses to the rear of the courtyard, numbers four to eight, are open-plan in design with south-west facing patio gardens. The three houses to the front of the development are more conventional in design.
Each Windsor Place house has an individual car-parking place. Those to the rear have gardens and there is access to a communal, sheltered green area where flower beds are bounded by old railway sleepers. Numbers seven and eight are the largest units and cost €710,000 and €730,000 respectively. They are also the most similar in design - their three bedrooms are on the ground floor and livingrooms and kitchen cum breakfastrooms on the bright, many windowed first floor. The kitchen cum breakfastroom has four Velux windows in a vaulted ceiling, flooring in charcoal tiles and creamy coloured kitchen fittings.
Double, frosted glass doors lead to the livingroom where there is another vaulted ceiling and a large picture window. A stone-surround gas fire fits snugly into a wall. Two of the bedrooms are carpeted, the third has an oak floor, all have built-in wardrobes and one has patio doors to the rear garden.
The main bedroom is en suite. The two-bedroom mid-terrace unit, number 6, has a floor area of 70 sq m (753 sq ft) and costs €480,000. With ceilings throughout notably high - those in the kitchen/living area are a vaulted 16ft - and with glass bricks in the entrance lobby, the sense of space and light is immediate. A spiral staircase leads to a mezzanine gallery over the living area. A remote controlled electric fireplace adds to the contemporary feel. The bedrooms are to the rear on the ground floor.
Numbers four and five are one-beds with 53 sq m (570 sq ft) of floor space and are selling for €410,000 and €400,000 respectively.
Number three at the front has two bedrooms, measures 67 sq m (721 sq ft) and is selling for €430,000. Number one has three bedrooms and a curved, glass brick wall around the galley-style Darren Langrell-designed kitchen common to all three houses. The family bathroom has a Velux light shaft and there is a guest toilet off the hallway. Upstairs there are two bedrooms to the front and a main en suite bedroom to the rear. With 84.5 sq m (910 sq ft) of space, it is selling for €500,000. Number two is slightly smaller at 81.4 sq m (877 sq ft) and is selling for €490,000.
