Glenageary: Ros Bandearg, on Silchester Road, Glenageary, Co Dublin, is a new house in an old garden. The large, detached home with four reception rooms and five bedrooms is set way back from the road in the centre of a well-established garden defined by large mature trees and bound on one side by an original granite wall.
Sherry Fitzgerald expects bids over €1.35 million at auction on October 9th.
First impressions are good. Built in 2000, the exterior is painted a pale pink and nestles well in its leafy setting. Inside, rooms flow into each other, and the imaginative use of light - in interestingly shaped and Velux windows and glass-panelled doors - give a great sense of space. With polished hardwood floors throughout, the house has been finished to a very high standard and is immaculately presented.
A panelled oak hall door opens into a bright hall floored in large polished marble tiles. Two steps lead down to the drawingroom with a white marble fireplace, unusual long narrow windows with deep sills, interior window to the rear hall and glazed folding doors to a family room which in turn has double French doors to rear garden and door to hall.
The rear hall opens first to a well-fitted utility room and on to a large kitchen. Floored in terracotta tile, with Shaker- style cupboards in light maple, the kitchen is fully fitted with integrated equipment including a dishwasher, fridge freezer and a Baumatic stainless steel gas range. The breakfast bar has large roof windows and steps lead from it to the diningroom, which has a marble fireplace and double doors back to the hall.
A ground floor toilet is completely tiled. The main bedroom has fitted wardrobes with mirrored door panel, a small railed balcony, and a high quality en suite shower room. Two further bedrooms are extremely well fitted variously in antique pine wardrobes, chest of drawers and bookshelves. A fourth bedroom is a small double size with fitted wardrobes.
A fifth hexagonal-shaped room separate from the others could be a fifth bedroom or is suited in size and location for a home office. The family bathroom, dramatically tiled in deep blue, has a white suite including Jacuzzi bath.
The front gates are electronically controlled. The front garden has romantic appeal with original stone walls, century old trees, and spacious parking. There is dual side access to the rear garden with a patio running the width of the house and a garden of lawn fringed with flowers, shrubs and a corner water feature.
