Number 133 Templeogue Road is a very finely proportioned house in a great location, especially for parents of teenage boys.
Set back from the busy road, the house is roomy at 205sq m (2207sq ft) without feeling too big. Best of all is its 120ft private garden which overlooks the playing fields of Terenure College.
Situated about half-way up Templeogue Road, it is almost at the pedestrian crossing to the Bushy Park entrance where Terenure Village Market is held on Saturdays. The brick-fronted Edwardian has great ceiling heights, plenty of light and, with a little reconfiguring could also have a contemporary layout.
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The house opens into a smart hall off which there is a pair of interconnecting reception rooms. The sittingroom, to the front, gets afternoon sun through its twin windows. Pitch pine double doors lead through to what would once have been the formal diningroom.
To the front of the house is a study, another well-proportioned room that would work well as a den for teenagers.
About 15 years ago, when they put in new windows to the front, the owners installed a conservatory to the rear, accessed from the diningroom via a pair of doors. The new owners might like to update this or indeed incorporate this space into the eat-in kitchen where there is a Rayburn range in a lovely shade of Yves Klein blue.
The house is set on a wide plot of land and includes an old-fashioned garage that is too small to house modern vehicles – there is already plenty of off-street parking – but it does get glorious afternoon sun. By incorporating the garage, utility and large wet room into the kitchen area, southerly sun could stream into the space all day long.
The garden is gorgeously old-fashioned. Mature with tall hedging to shield it from the neighbours, the standout specimen tree is the mature eucalyptus. Once set out totally in lawn, as the garden next door still is, it is now equal parts patio, specimen plant and gravelled flower bed and lawn, which conspire to make it look a lot smaller than it actually is.
The property adjoins the playing fields of Terenure College – and one imagines schoolboys using it as a shortcut to school and indeed back into the house at weekends.
Upstairs there is a great sense of the physical size of the house. Set around a square landing, there are five bedrooms, one of which has a shower en suite.
The house is a five-minute walk from Terenure village and is book-ended by schools: for girls there is Our Lady’s School at one end of the road while Presentation is at the other end. For boys Terenure College is next door while Templeogue College is about a 10-minute walk away.
The property is asking €1.15 million through agents DNG.
