Old style values with modern comforts in Killiney for €1.7m

A period-style house with all modern comforts – including a family cinema room – built about two years ago is for sale for €1.7 million through DNG. The large rooms, high ceilings and generous space are what attracted the vendor.

Number 1, Balure, a detached 362sq m (3,900sq ft) five/six-bed house, is one of seven in a small development built in the grounds of Balure House, a period house on 1.9 acres on Church Road in Killiney that sold for €3.25 million in 2015. The houses were launched in 2016 with prices from €1.5 million to €1.65 million.

Like the other houses in the development, number 1 is double-fronted with large bay windows. Rooms have period-style features, such as sash windows, ceiling cornicing and timber panelling in the hall and on the upstairs landing.

A parquet-floored livingroom has glazed double doors into the diningroom which opens into the large L-shaped kitchen/breakfastroom/lounge. This area, like the hall, is tiled. The kitchen has a stone-topped island unit and countertops, a five-ring gas hob, and a utility room off it. There is also a separate sittingroom off the hall. All downstairs has underfloor heating and there are log-burning stoves in two of the downstairs rooms. The house has an A2 energy rating.

Upstairs there are five bedrooms, all doubles with en suites. The main bedroom has a walk-in dressingroom. All the bedrooms have built-in wardrobes and there’s lots of storage throughout the house, says the vendor. There are two more rooms (one en suite) on the top attic floor, one used as a family cinema, the other as a study.

The garden is relatively small but has room for an astroturf area, a shed and a patio. There’s room for parking in the gravelled front garden behind electric gates.

Balure is in a cul-de-sac off Balure Lane, a long narrow road off Church Road which leads up to a pedestrian entrance to Killiney Golf Club.