RAHENY: €695,000:A stylish art deco home has plenty of space for a big family, including granny, and a small business. It is all clean lines and low maintenance – even the garden, writes ALANNA GALLAGHER
NUMBER 640 HOWTH Road is a very smart five-bedroom art deco house that is light-filled and completely modernised. Its new cool clean lines are perfectly in keeping with the original personality of the house. Set well back from the busy thoroughfare it is only minutes from the village of Raheny.
The detached property measures 265 sq metres (2,853sq ft) and has an asking price of €695,000 through agent Lisney.
The house opens onto a large double height square hall. To the left, there is a family room, accessed via glass sliding doors. The room has a contemporary gas-lit feature fire and the windows are veiled in custom-made silhouette blinds, which have been made for all the house’s front windows.
The main living area of the house consists of an L-shaped open-plan space with an aluminium Siematic kitchen and stainless steel breakfast bar that looks towards the garden. An adjacent dining area also overlooks the garden and the sitting room, while part of the open plan feels cosy, thanks to the installation of another, larger-format feature gas fire.
Two floor-to-ceiling picture windows frame the very private and architectural back garden. The outdoor space is wider than it is long and has low maintenance planting by landscaper Barry Lupton.
Its grass areas have white borders that echo the shape of the zen-style water pools and surrounding decking areas. The garden is north facing but is big enough to chase the sun around and there’s a patio area that is an evening sun trap. A snake bark maple tree is the only large-format foliage. The rest of the low-maintenance planting is in raised beds.
What makes this house interesting is the marriage of open plan with more traditional layouts. Even fans of open plan spaces know that you need to be able to escape the communal living and this house is bookended by two sizable areas to hide away.
Off the kitchen there is a utility room and toilet, as well as two good-sized rooms that have their own separate front entrance. These could be used as a doctor or other such medical practitioner or even as a small flat. These rooms haven’t been modernised to the same level as the rest of the house.
At the other end, there is a great granny flat that connects with the main part of the house, but can also be closed to create a self-contained two-storey space. Downstairs there is a dining area and a room that is used as a home office but could be another sitting room.
Climbing the main open-thread staircase to the gantry landing, there are four double bedrooms, two of which are en suite.
One of these is being used as a dressing room for the master bedroom and it connects with the master ensuite bathroom, which is huge and has a free-standing bath with ample room.
The fifth double forms part of the granny flat and there is a family bathroom in this part of the house. It also has its own separate staircase.
There is underfloor heating throughout the maple-clad ground floor. Upstairs there is gas-fired central heating.
Out front there is ample off-street parking for up to four cars.
640 Howth Road, Raheny, Dublin 5
Spacious art deco home with office and granny flat
Agent: Lisney
