A large detached house 1940s house at 126 Merrion Road is one of a row of similar houses built opposite the entrance to Shrewsbury Road on the way into Ballsbridge.
It is for sale through Billy O'Sullivan by private treaty with a guide price of £1.4million (1.78m). It was bought a couple of years ago and completely renovated and extended.
The double-fronted house has been extended over the original garage and at the back. These kind of houses do not have very large rooms but the addition of the extra space has increased it to a five bedroom family house with plenty of bathrooms.
Off the hall there is a long but quite narrow drawingroom on one side which has been fitted with a marble fireplace with new wooden flooring and doors out to the back garden.
Across the hall a smaller square room with wooden flooring would make a nice diningroom. There is a door from here to the kitchen beside it. This has a large window to the front of the house and darkish cherrywood units extending along both walls towards the back. It is fitted with integrated Neff appliances and has a quarry tiled floor.
Again this is a narrow room but the new extension out the back increases its length to give ample dining space and entrance to a new sunroom with windows on two sides, quarry tiled flooring, and doors both from the dining area and into the back garden. There is also a small utility room.
The staircase has been removed from the hall and a new one installed across the back behind the diningroom. The original landing window has been replaced by a light stained glass one.
Upstairs, four of the five bedrooms are doubles with . The fifth is very small but would make a child's room or a study.
The master bedroom has a well equipped bathroom with two wash hand basins, bidet, bath and stand-in shower. Two of the other bedrooms have en suite shower rooms and there is also a main family bathroom on this level. There is access to a floored attic by trapdoor and extending ladder in one of the bedrooms.
The whole house has been fitted with new Pvc windows, new beechwood flooring in the reception rooms and hall, and sand colour carpet throughout the bedrooms. All the rooms have been painted in a soft yellow.
Outside there are large gardens back and front with side access. There is an enormous wooden deck across the back of the house onto which the drawingroom and sunroom open. The back garden beyond this is well screened and private and is hedged on all sides. This offers opportunities for an enthusiastic gardener as it has been untouched for some time.
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