Detached Foxrock dormer on offer for €775,000

A large well-landscaped back garden is probably the star attraction of a detached 1960s dormer bungalow in Foxrock. A four-bed owned by one family for the past 25 years, it is in very good condition – but with the décor and layout now dated, new owners are likely to want to revamp it.

Number 49 Joyce Avenue, a 132sq m (1,420sq ft) four-bedroom house with a lot of potential, is for sale through Lisney for €775,000. Some nearby houses have adapted and expanded their homes by converting garages or by building another dormer on the opposite side of the roof: unusually, the bungalows on Joyce Avenue  have dormers to the side, rather than the front of their roofs.

A good-sized entrance hall opens into a wide livingroom/diningroom at the back of the house, with a marble fireplace and a wood-panelled ceiling. It has a large picture window and sliding glass doors opening onto a sandstone patio that stretches across the back of the house.

The medium-sized kitchen has oak units; a door opens into a utility room created in what was originally a side passage. Other downstairs accommodation includes a toilet,  two bedrooms, one currently fitted out as a study, the other as a family room/TV room. Upstairs there are two bedrooms and a fully-tiled family bathroom.

The meticulously maintained 76ft back garden has a gravelled area at its centre, bordered by a profusion of bushes, mature shrubs, plants and trees. Wide paths lead around it, down to a small fenced-off area at the end with its own small patio. Tall trees here and in neighbouring gardens make the whole garden very private. The agent suggests that new owners could easily replace the gravelled centre with lawn. There’s good room for parking in the cobblelocked front garden.