BlACKROCK: €1.5M: 21 Mount Merrion Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin
€1.5m for house built in 1828. It comes with a big garden studio
Agent: Sherry FitzGerald
Dating from 1828, number 21 Mount Merrion Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin is a large three-storey house in a popular terraceclose to Blackrock village.
Over a floor area of 242sq m (2,605sq ft) there are four/five bedrooms, four reception rooms and a kitchen/breakfastroom.
Original features have survived the centuries to fit effortlessly with contemporary additions while a very lovely antique open fireplace, older than the house by about 30 years, fits so well it looks as if number 21 was its intended first home.
The sale also includes a separate 1970s-built studio/games room at the end of the 105ft long rear garden. This has 40sq m (427sq ft) of space, a mezzanine level, large open-plan ground floor and a workshop/utility area.
The €1.5 million asking price includes house and studio. Sherry FitzGerald is looking after the private treaty sale.
The 11-panel original front door opens to a hallway where the mood is established by decorative plasterwork, wide, darkly polished original floor timbers, a dado rail and an arch framing a staircase to a half-landing with a long-sash window.
Reception rooms on this floor have interconnecting double doors, high ceilings, polished timber floors and, in the front facing drawingroom, that hand-carved circa 1798 fireplace.
An ivory coloured, fully fitted kitchen/breakfastroom is on this level too and opens to decking where, any day now, an encircling clematis will come into bud.
Dark, solid wood Iroko worktops suit the pale colours of fittings and floor. An informal, front-facing diningroom is similar in style and colours.
At the garden level, which has a separate front entrance, a cosy TV/family room has a glass door to the rear patio/garden and a cast-iron fireplace. There is a bedroom at this level, plus a study which could make a fifth bedroom.
The main, first floor bedroom has a pair of long, front-facing sash windows. A rear, private laneway gives vehicular access and a sloping path gives wheelchair access through the front garden.
