Fine family home in Glenageary with room to grow for €975,000

Arkendale Road is a gorgeous leafy cul-de-sac on the sea side of the rail line about a three-minute walk from Glenageary Dart station.

It’s a much sought-after street with mixed housing stock from Victorian villas to solid, early 20th-century semis, the latter built on large plots of the kind that are no longer offered by the new home developers of today.

Number 17 is one of these. It is set well back from the road and is south-facing to the front, where there is plenty of off-street parking but also green space for the sun-worshipper to set up his or her lounger.

The property has been extended by its owners so that the three-bedroom property now has a fourth ensuite bedroom downstairs that could also double as a playroom.

This is off the kitchen, which now has its own separate side entrance and extends almost nine metres across. It’s a good eat-in room with lots of light and a small breakfast bar within its L-shape.

Its original reception rooms have interconnecting pocket sliding doors that, when open, turn this into a dual-aspect space. When closed each is a good square-shaped room with a ceiling height of over 2.5m (8.2ft).

Double doors from the TV room to the rear open out to an enormous timber deck that is raised with steps leading down to the lawned garden below. It’s a proper family set-up with a full-size trampoline at lawn level, where there is also plenty of room to kick a ball around.

The deck is impressive and there is room here to store all manner of garden paraphernalia beneath it as it has been raised to sit flush with the floor in the house.

While north-facing the garden stretches to over 19.8m (65ft) and the plot is almost 13m (42.65ft) across so big enough to get the sun all day as it isn’t overlooked or overshadowed.

The house, which has an E1 BER rating and extends to 142sq m (1,528 sq ft), is seeking €975,000 through agents SherryFitzGerald.

Opportunity

A fine family home,it is ready to move into. There is a great opportunity however, subject to having extensive additional funds, to enlarge the house to the side, and to install a larger kitchen, dining/living room, and add another bedroom upstairs. It could be gorgeous either now or in the future when the costs of construction aren’t as bullish as they are currently.

The setting of 17 Arkendale Road is mature and peaceful yet only a short walk or cycle to local shops, restaurants and the sea. The Metals, an off-road cycle and walking path that was used to bring stone from Dalkey quarry for the construction of Dún Laoghaire pier in the early 19th century, provides a handy short cut to the seafront.