Modern family home in Killiney with a quarter of an acre to play in

The owners of 5A Ash Hurst, a four-bedroom detached home on 0.25 of an acre within a five-minute walk of the Dart and Killiney beach, don’t want to leave but are relocating back to the UK and reluctantly putting it on the market. And there’s a lot to love here.

When they bought it as a new property in 2016 – for €1.395 million, according to the Property Price Register – the house was still being finished so they worked with contractors to put their own stamp on it.

This included designing the Noel Dempsey kitchen exactly how they wanted it and employing the craftsman to build bespoke joinery throughout the two-storey, A2-rated home.

Set low into the sloping hillside the house was built to a design by SBA Architects in the sizeable garden of number 5. Its redbrick-fronted exterior was designed to match the older 1980s-built dwellings

Set behind electronic gates with off-street parking for up to three cars, the house is well laid out for family life.

It opens into a roomy hall with a study to the right. Featuring more Noel Dempsey fitted bookshelves, desk and cupboards, it is painted in Railings, a dark anthracite grey and one of several Farrow & Ball colours used throughout the home.

Adjoining it is a cloakroom and shower room, handy if you have sporty kids coming in filthy from training.

To the back is a smart, square sittingroom with an inset wood-burning stove. It overlooks the garden, which is southeast facing, with doors opening to the outside.

The kitchen is also situated to the back of the house. Its cabinetry is painted Purbeck Stone with a contrasting colour, Oval Room Blue, on the base of the island. This is a spacious eat-in room with sliding doors opening to a southerly terrace.

There’s a utility room beside it and to the front is a second sittingroom. Smaller in size than the other, it opens on to a front terrace and will work well as a TV room or playroom.

Upstairs there are four good-size bedrooms, three of which have contemporary versions of the traditional dormer window. One of the children’s rooms features a painted mountain mural.The main bedroom overlooks the garden and has a well-appointed en suite bathroom and walk-in wardrobe.

Extending to 205sq m (2,206 sq ft), with a further 28sq m of loft space and a detached shed in the garden, the property is seeking €1.75million through Savills Country Homes.