Extending options in popular Blackrock cul de sac for €1.6m

Househunters looking for a larger family home with good bedrooms, reception rooms and, crucially, a good back garden will find little wanting at Corbally, 14 Glenvar Park in Blackrock.

Now a cul-de-sac, Glenvar Park, a quiet residential road off Cross Avenue, was developed in the 1940s when the houses were built on particularly large plots.

To the front, gardens and driveways are standard, but their enclosed back gardens are vast. They don’t come on the market too often and when they do, buyers are usually particularly attracted by the walking proximity to several schools and Blackrock village.

Number 14 comes to the market as an executors’ sale, the owners having lived here for more than 60 years. A major upgrade was done on the four-bed house five years ago: the conversion of the garage into a room and adjacent showerroom was just one of the improvements which also included knocking through the kitchen and breakfast room to create one large space, updating the family bathroom, installing new windows, heating and electrics and generally decorating throughout.

Extension

Buyers can move in and do nothing while they consider the potential offered by the 35m-long southwest-facing garden. As a large extension to the rear isn’t going to take up very much of the garden, that’s just what many of the neighbours have done. Others on the road have gone up into the attic – the landings in these houses are good sized so installing a proper staircase is not a problem.

The house extends to 168sq m (1,808sq ft) and the downstairs layout offers flexibility to buyers – that garage conversion accessed off the kitchen could be a playroom or accommodation for an older person. There are two reception rooms downstairs, a small sunroom and an eat-in kitchen. Upstairs the four bedrooms are three doubles and a single.

The front garden has been gravelled for easy maintenance – but it’s the shrub-lined long and wide back garden that buyers will be drawn to.

Agent Janet Carroll is selling 14 Glenvar Park for €1.595 million.