Residential

Space and elegance in a quiet Dún Laoghaire enclave for €1.4m

Sunny kitchen at front and bright interconnecting reception rooms add to this property’s appeal

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Alanna Gallagher
Thu Mar 17 2016 - 01:00

Crosthwaite Park is a leafy cul de sac just off Silchester Road on the Glenageary side of Dún Laoghaire.

It is situated just around the corner from the East and West sides of the Park, which frame a lovely green space.

The street has a mix of housing stock from 1930s-style semis to period two-storey over basement homes.

In August last year Savills sold Daytona for €1.05 million, a four-bed 1930s property that had come to market asking €1.1 milllion and in September 2013 Kish View, 14 Crosthwaite Park South, came to market asking €995,000.

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It sold in February 2014 for €1.225million, according to the Property Price Register.

Roomy hall

Number 16 is a two-storey over basement period property that feels much roomier inside than its exterior suggests.

The owners bought it in 1989, attracted by its sense of scale. The property opens into a roomy hall, now floored in a classic checkerboard of black and white tiles.

Ceiling heights of 12ft in the fine reception rooms and large windows pooling light into the interconnecting rooms were other selling points.

These rooms have polished floorboards and decorative ceiling roses balanced by simple coving.

The house has been upgraded over the owners’ 26 years in residence. Works include new Ventrolla sash windows and fitted wardrobes, installed 10 years ago.

Reconfigured

The biggest job was gutting the garden level to reconfigure it, moving the kitchen from the darker of the two rooms to the rear of the house at the sunny front. A new Siematic kitchen and a window seat make a compelling spot to while away a weekend afternoon.

The garden can be accessed from both this level and the hall return, where French doors open from a study out to a paved and gravelled private north-facing space.

A private lane runs to the rear of the house. The first of the property’s four double bedrooms is on the first floor return.

The family bathroom is also at this level. The master bedroom, to the sunny south-facing front of the property, spans the width of the house.

A section of the bedroom was hived off to add an en suite bathroom. The other large double to its rear has been similarly reconfigured.

The property, which measures 315sq m (3,390sq ft) and has off-street parking for several cars, is asking €1.395 million through agent SherryFitzGerald.