Dublin 16: €3.5m: Ballintyre Hall, a listed 1820s house at the front of a large upmarket development in D16, needs renovation but has many fine period details says Fiona Tyrrell.
Four years after the first launch of its hugely popular Ballintyre scheme, Glenkerrin Homes is selling the period home at the heart of the upmarket Dublin 16 scheme.
The sale of the imposing period home is one of the final pieces in the jigsaw of the Ballintyre story.
The 24-acre site off Ballinteer Avenue was purchased in 2003 by Ray Grehan for around €51 million from the Cantrell family.
In total 505 apartments, duplexes and houses have been built to date with the final 14 apartments and penthouses due to come on the market in the new year. The total development revenue is now at the €250 million mark.
Now the developer is selling the listed 609sq m (6,555sq ft) house at the centre of the development.
Catherine O'Connor from Savills HOK has set an AMV of €3.5 million in advance of auction some time in the new year, unless sold previously.
Although the developer secured planning permission to turn the house into an apartment scheme, Ballintyre House is being pitched at buyers looking for an upmarket family home.
Glenkerrin had sought planning permission to transform the house into 12 apartments but eventually only secured permission for four.
The house is set on around an acre of land; mature trees to the front and one side of the house provide a screen of sorts from nearby apartment blocks.
An adjoining annex comprising kitchen, stores, wine cellars and servants' quarters, has been developed into an attractive courtyard development of nine mews-style homes, which went on the market earlier this year.
Ballintyre House as it stands now dates from around 1820. It was extensively remodelled in the 1870s and remains substantially unaltered since then.
Having been used as a site office for some time, the house comes to the market in a rather neglected condition.
Buyers will need at least €1 million to restore it to its former glory.
Happily, lots of gorgeous period details remain intact including sash windows and shutters, all the original fireplaces and a striking rear hall complete with carved mahogany panels depicting mythical Celtic creatures.
The house itself has grand proportions. There are three impressively large formal reception rooms. The diningroom still has a serving hatch. A small kitchen, livingroom and stores complete the ground floor layout.
A staircase with a beautifully ornate bannister leads upstairs where there are five massive bedrooms (one en suite) and a bathroom the size of a large livingroom in a modern home.
A private gravel driveway from within the Ballintyre development leads to the front of the house, which looks onto landscaped communal areas.
There is a bank of mature trees to the left hand side of the house and it's likely that buyers would undertake extensive planting to the rear of the property to increase seclusion.
