Spacious home by embassy has room to grow

A five-bedroom family home at 11 Merlyn Park, off Merrion Road in Ballsbridge, is expected to make over £900,000 (€1.14m) at a Sherry FitzGerald auction on March 28th. The solid pre-war semi detached house has been recently redecorated throughout and over the years, has been extended to provide a fifth bedroom, a fourth reception room and a utility room.

Downstairs there are two interconnecting reception rooms, the front of which has a bay window. The back room has wall-to-wall glazed sliding doors for access to the back garden. The other reception room to the front is currently used as a home office.

The kitchen is its original size and has built-in units and an Aga. A large utility room is off the kitchen to the side and there is a large family room at the back.

As is typical of houses of this vintage, the hall stairs and landing area is spacious and bright. There is a guest toilet off the hall.

Upstairs the five bedrooms are all doubles. The main bedroom is the most attractive, with its deep rounded bay window. The other bedroom to the front is also a very large double.

There are two more bedrooms to the back of the house and the fifth is to the side in the extension over the carport. While all the bedrooms have wash-hand basins, there is only one modest-sized bathroom, so the new owners will probably want to carve out some space for an en suite.

The 85 ft-long back garden is very private and quiet, with mature hedging lining the back wall. The garden backs on to the grounds of the Spanish Embassy.

With off-street parking for two or more cars in the front drive, there is obvious potential to convert the carport area, to add another reception room to what is already very spacious house.