More than just a good location, number 18 Farney Park is also a much-cared for family home with space, light and inviting comforts. It’s location, about as central to Sandymount’s community and village life as you’re likely to get, simply adds lustre.
Farney Park itself is a winding, open-ended road of 1930s houses, most of them with bay windows in pebble-dash/redbrick facades and generous gardens front and back. Number 18’s 100ft long rear garden is a thriving pleasure with daffodils and pansies in bloom, an apple tree, climbers and wooden garden shed.
The vendor, who has lived in and reared her family in Number 18 since 1987, is leaving with many a backward glance.
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“It’s a fabulous place to live,” she says, “whoever gets this house will be lucky.” The 138sq m (1485sq ft) floor area has three bedrooms (a fourth in the converted garage could be a study), two reception rooms, open kitchen/ dining area, ground floor shower with WC and family bathroom. Agent DNG is asking €995,000 for the private treaty sale.
Many 1930s features are intact, including internal doors whose high doorknobs make you wonder why such were ever abandoned. The original front door, in a sheltering porch, has coloured leaded glass and the hallway’s dado rail continues up the stairs. Cornicing, picture rails, floorboards and some windows are all original.
The interconnecting reception rooms have sliding doors between, period-style fireplaces, polished wood floors, a wide box window to the front and French doors to the rear.
The open kitchen/dining is brightly lit by a double velux and rear, wood-framed French door and window.
An isle/worktop is of polished granite and a stained glass window set deeply into a wall makes a nice feature.
The two-way shower room is accessed both from an inner lobby and the fourth, converted bedroom. The family bathroom and three bedrooms are off the first floor landing, the main one to the front with another box window.
There is off-street parking to the front.
