New Homes: Malahide modernity by Bailey’s Bovale Developments

The final 15 houses in the first development by Michael Bailey’s Bovale Developments since the 2008 crash go on sale this weekend.

The completed Coill Dubh development, at Broomfield, Malahide, Co Dublin, will have 74 three-, four- and five-bedroom detached and semi-detached homes. Coill Dubh (Bovale favours Irish names) houses first went on sale in March of this year, when 59 were sold. Ten of those family buyers have since moved in. This weekend's final 15 houses are in a cul-de-sac towards the rear of the development which has been funded by Nama.

Opposite Malahide Community School and next door to St Sylvester's GAA club, Coill Dubh is well situated for family homes, with Malahide Village a 10-minute walk away. The traditional two-storey houses were designed by McCrossan O'Rourke Manning Architects with the redbrick facades preferred by Bovale. Laid out in a series of cul-de-sacs, all have gardens to front and rear and cobblelocked car parking to the front.

L-shaped

The four-bedroom houses have a livingroom to the front with a kitchen/diningroom in an L-shaped open plan to the rear. There are a toilet and a utility room on this floor too. The first-floor main bedroom is en suite and all the bedroom floors are timber.

The 159.5sq m (1,717sq ft) five-bedroom detached version costs €785,000 and the 128-137sq m (1,378-1475sq ft) four-bedroom detached costs €600,000. Semi-detached three-bed houses, measuring 109-112sq m (1,181-1,212sq ft), are priced from €445,000.

Bovale’s most recent developments, built between 2005 and 2007, were the several hundred houses and shopping centre at Boroimhe, in Swords, Co Dublin, and Torcaill, a group of large detached houses in Portmarnock, Co Dublin. Charlestown, in Finglas, a shopping centre and apartment scheme, was built at about the same time.

Coill Dubh is on view this weekend between 2pm and 5pm and on Monday between 5pm and 7pm.