Space to spare in the heart of Dalkey for €1.15m

A detached house within walking distance of Dalkey centre faces the busy main road into the village, but it is designed so that most of the living space is to the rear. Built in 1975, it was extended in 2000: now a wide bright kitchen/breakfastroom stretches across the back of the house, opening into a glazed sunroom and down into a sizeable garden.

Number 19 Ulverton Road, a 199sq m (2,142sq ft) four-bed with a separate self-contained apartment and an attic conversion, is for sale through Sherry FitzGerald for €1.15 million.

The front door of number 19 – five doors down from the Topaz garage at the edge of Dalkey – opens into a white tiled hallway. A timber-floored livingroom with a cast-iron gas fireplace opens off the left; behind it it is a good-sized utility room where there’s also a sauna and a shower. A door from here opens into a covered side passage. A floor-to-ceiling mirror on the right of the hall conceals a door into a very tiny guest toilet.

Family room

Towards the back of the house, a wide family room with a solid fuel stove and white painted wooden floor opens directly into the even wider kitchen/breakfastroom:  there are lots of Velux roof windows over this space, which has white-tiled floors and a white tongue-and-groove timber ceiling. A breakfast bar separates the somewhat dated kitchen from the breakfastroom.

There’s a step up into the sunroom and doors from here and the kitchen open onto a large raised and railed deck. Steps lead down past half-walls painted a shade of terracotta to a neat lawned area. There are three garden sheds at the bottom of the 80ft garden, plumbed and with electricity.

Upstairs, there are four bedrooms, three of them doubles, and a family bathroom; the main bedroom, overlooking the back garden, has an en suite with a very high Jacuzzi bath. Up a steep flight of stairs is a converted attic: at one end, doors lead into a bedroom with a porthole window, with a bathroom at the opposite end and a livingroom in the middle.

The self-contained apartment opens to the right off the front porch: it’s effectively a very long mostly open-plan room running from the front to the back of the house, with the living space at the front, kitchen and bedroom to the rear, with a bathroom at the very end.

There is room to park in the cobblelocked front garden.