MOUNT AUBURN is a beautifully proportioned six-bedroom Victorian house on Killiney Hill Road, back on the market with a price cut of nearly 10 per cent.
Set on approximately one-third of an acre of walled grounds, it’s for sale for €1.9 million through agent Colliers, reduced from €2.1 million.
The 424sq m (4,570sq ft) house sits on a secluded site punctuated by mature pine trees. Automatic security gates open onto a gravelled drive that leads up to granite steps and the front door. A pillared portico opens into a polished timber hall.
To the left is a dual aspect drawing room which has a marbled mantel with a tiled inset and a decorative centre rose.
It is a delightful room, boasting peekaboo sea views from above the property’s beech hedge.
A door leads from it into the duck-egg blue kitchen that has an Aga and a Belfast-style sink, as well as a decorative splashback featuring some Delft-style tiles.
An arch leads from the kitchen into a congenial dining room that is lit from above by an oval lantern-style roof light.
A bowed rear window with French doors lead directly into the west-facing garden and rockery. This part of the house was added in 2002.
On the other side of the ground floor, there’s a family room or den with ample study or office shelving. To the front is another dual aspect room used as a formal dining room. It does not have the same wealth of decorative period features.
The original rooms all have shuttered windows, a period feature that dispenses with the need for curtains, especially at ground floor level.
A set of open tread stairs takes you down into the semi-basement where there is a large family room with wood-burning stove.
Off it is an unused second kitchen, the site of the original kitchen in the house. It too has a wood-burning stove, and double doors lead to a small west-facing garden and patio.
There are two bedrooms at this level, one of which has an en suite shower room. There is also a utility room and a guest toilet.
Upstairs on the first floor, there are four bedrooms, two of which are en suite. The front bedrooms have sea views and three of the four rooms are doubles.
The main bedroom has views across Dublin Bay to Howth Head. A large en suite with a separate bath and shower is off the bedroom, along with a walk-in wardrobe.
A second double to the front, also with sea views, could be transformed into a self-contained suite with very little structural work.
It has an adjacent bathroom and an interconnecting door leading into a large single that could become a spacious dressing room. The house is within walking distance of Dalkey and easy reach of the village’s Dart station.
