£2m for house at Sandycove Point

Having sold after auction last October for around £1.3 million, Mornington House, at Sandycove Point, in Co Dublin, is back on the market. The Victorian five-bedroom house, which has superb views of the sea to the south, has been refurbished and redecorated since and now carries a guide price of £2 million prior to auction through Lisney on September 29th.

Located at the end of a cul-de-sac, Mornington House is an attractive two-storey house with a wide gravel driveway in front and gardens on three sides.

A sunny entrance porch protects the front door from the elements. Inside is an elegant wide hallway with the two principal rooms straight ahead. The interconnecting drawingoom and diningroom both have high bay windows directly overlooking the sea.

There is an original marble fireplace in one room that has been copied using a marble-effect paint on the fireplace in the other room.

Leading off the diningroom is a sun room with a wall of windows facing Bulloch Harbour. This room in turn connects with a small sittingroom that opens off the hall.

The kitchen, which is one of the nicest rooms in the house, is bright and spacious with patio doors opening on to the garden and a door leading to a very large conservatory at the front of the house. Painted timber units in pale yellow look good with a cream-coloured Aga. The patio doors open on to a narrow run of gravel and paving stones that is too small to be useful.

There is a spacious utility room off the conservatory.

Also on the ground floor there is a large lavatory with Victorian-style fittings and a black and white chequered floor.

Upstairs, the main bedroom at the front of the house has a stunning view of the sea. It opens into what was formerly a large, square bedroom but is now a bathroom with an cast-iron bath in the middle of the floor allowing one to take a shower while watching the boats slip in and out of Bulloch Harbour.

There are two more bedrooms at this end of the house and they share a good-sized bathroom. A corridor leads to another two bedrooms. The larger of these two rooms has an en suite bathroom and dressingroom.

The house has been redecorated from top to bottom in a period style.