Big thinking and bright ideas in Dalkey for €2.2m

St Margaret's, a two-storey villa-style house in Dalkey, Co Dublin, was reportedly one of the first built on Castlepark Road in 1840, when the property was a farmhouse.

It has been extended a number of times in the past 175 years and thoroughly modernised in the last 20. Now the four/five bedroom 405sq m (4,365sq ft) house is for sale by private treaty through Sherry FitzGerald for €2.2 million.

Stained glass has been used to great effect throughout the house, a trend that started when the house was extended around 1917; lovely stained glass panels in the bay windows of the diningroom and drawingroom show scenes of a rural landscape.

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The current owners put stained glass panels into the large front door as well as in a number of internal doors and windows as they modernised, just one of the ways they have created a bright, modern, airy home without sacrificing its period appeal.

The house is on Castlepark Road at the corner of St Margaret’s Close, a small estate built in the early 1990s in the grounds of this house.

A tiled entrance porch opens into a large square hall, where a new staircase at its centre bisects a short flight of stairs down to the back of the house.

Accommodation now includes a diningroom on the left of the large front hall and a drawingroom on the right, both handsomely decorated.

Double doors from the drawingroom lead down a few stairs into a very bright conservatory, with a terracotta-tiled floor and brick fireplace.

This opens into the kitchen/ breakfastroom, which has polished granite countertops, breakfast bar and splashbacks, oak units and a Waterford range with a six-ring gas hob.

Stained-glass panelled doors open from the kitchen into a long side hall; there’s a cosy family room off this at one side and, at the other, a larger den/playroom.

A corridor at the side of the house is completely covered and there’s a very large laundry room off this and a guest toilet.

Upstairs, there are four bright double bedrooms, two en suite, and a family bathroom.

Clawfoot bath

The main bedroom, once a sittingroom, has a dressingroom off it that was once a fifth bedroom. The bedrooms’s en suite, like the main family bathroom, has a clawfoot bath as well as a shower.

Stone walls shelter the 29m by 10m (96ft by 32ft) landscaped garden at the back which is, like the house, wide rather than long, with patio areas at both ends.

Original iron entrance gates at the front open into a large private gravelled front garden where there’s room to park five to six cars.