MOUNT MERRION: €975,000:ST THOMAS MEAD is a pleasant high-hedged, secluded cul-de-sac of just 12 bungalows in Mount Merrion, Co Dublin. Number 11 takes full advantage of its location and is restfully private behind beech hedges with a wooden gate leading to the pebbled pathways of a wrap-around garden.
Built in 1961, the vendor “took the place apart” in 2002 and has re-made it with cleverly designed living spaces that have lots of light and a touch of art deco about them.
It has a floor area of 155sq m (1,667sq ft) with three bedrooms, two reception rooms and a study.
On the market for the first time in 10 years, the price is €975,000, through agent Felicity Fox.
The art deco effect begins in the entrance hallway, which is an extension to the original and has windows on either side of the door, a grey tiled floor and, straight ahead as you come in, a statement staircase with brushed steel bannister rail.
The sitting and dining rooms have cherry wood floors and double interconnecting doors.
There are inventive touches in the subtly different reds of a pair of laminated wall presses in the diningroom, a white, dark-veined marble fireplace of great depth and nobility in the sittingroom and in windows that vary in style from high and narrow to long and wide to, in the diningroom, double glass doors to the garden.
The dining area in the kitchen/breakfastroom is sunroom-like with a sloping glass roof and a wall of windows. The colours here are wine and grey, and the ceramic tiled floor is grey with spatters of browny-red.
The vendor “sacrificed” a fourth bedroom to create a good-sized en suite for the main, ground floor bedroom and a bright, well-fitted utility room that opens to the rear garden.
Both first-floor bedrooms have large windows and generous amounts of built-in wardrobe.
One has a built-in desk and eaves storage, while the other has the delight of a couple of cherry trees outside the window.
The small study is on this floor too, as is a family bathroom where the bottom half of the window is made from glass bricks. The cabinet mirror, both here and in the downstairs guest toilet, is ingeniously double-sided.
There is a garage and off-street parking for several cars.
11 St Thomas Mead, Mount Merrion, Co Dublin
Refurbished 1960s bungalow of 155sq m (1,667sq ft) with three bedrooms, two reception rooms and a study. Agent: Felicity Fox
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