An unusual and charming period house with four bedrooms and an eagle's eye view over the town of Bray is for sale through Douglas Newman Good with an asking price of £150,000-plus. Steps up, steps down, deep window sills and secluded gardens chock-a-block with flowers add to the cottage atmosphere of Brayview, which is located on the Upper Dargle Road in Bray, Co Wicklow.
Brayview is semi-detached, although well-screened from the cottage next door by a fence covered with climbers. A small laneway off the road provides parking and there are steps to the porched front door.
Now that the N11 bypasses the town, this part of Bray has become relatively free of traffic. The town centre is around the corner, the DART a few minutes walk and the N11 is at the end of the road. Both the sea and the mountains are on the doorstep and there is a good selection of private and public schools in the immediate area. Buyers may decide to replace Brayview's aluminium windows with timber sash, although the current owner has allowed them to stay because they are maintenance-free and relatively unobtrusive. The "sitting-in" garden is at the front of the house and is sheltered from the road below by a row of evergreen trees.
A porched entrance with space for boots and umbrellas leads through to a wide sittingroom/diningroom with a black-painted marble fireplace and deep windows looking over to Bray Head, the two Sugarloaf mountains and the rooftops of the town. Steps lead up and down to a compact kitchen/breakfastroom with painted units, a broom cupboard and china store. There are open shelves and doors out to a sunny dining terrace.
The four bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs are at different levels and the rooms at the front have sloping ceilings and views of the Wicklow hills. The two front rooms are both doubles and have built-in wardrobes. One of the smaller bedrooms has a built-in platform bed with a desk unit underneath and the other, which looks out on a narrow rear pathway, is painted a deep terracotta. The bathroom has a very high glassed ceiling which has been given a slatted pine false ceiling to allow light to filter through from above. The very secluded rear garden will be a challenge to all but the very fit. Steep stone steps climb to a small walled garden with an old apple tree and even higher views. There is also a walled patio outside one of the bedrooms and a whitewashed store.
Two gardens at the front are planted with geraniums, fuschia and a variety of cottage flowers. A path curves down to Upper Dargle Road through the lower garden.
