Inver, on Marlborough Road, Glenageary, Co Dublin, is a large six-bedroom Victorian redbrick that has been totally refurbished since it was last on the market in 1997. The three-storey house has over 4,000 sq ft of living space and a garden of just over 100 ft.
Houses of this size don't come on the market very often in this quiet, convenient road that has a DART station at one end. However, the real attraction of Inver is that every inch of it has been redecorated to a very high standard, with no expense spared. Lisney will auction it on March 25th and expects to achieve over £750,000. To the front of the house is a landscaped garden with off-street parking. The original garage opens through to the back garden. Granite steps lead up to the front door, which opens into an outer hallway floored in marble and painted a rich yellow.
On one side, a door with glazed panels leads to a guest cloakroom and lavatory.
On the other side, double doors with the same glazed panels and a fanlight overhead leads to an inner hall with the original timber floor and an arched niche fitted with glass shelves and lighting. There are two reception rooms at hall level - a spectacular 500 sq ft drawingroom with beautiful plasterwork, soft aqua walls, original floorboards and a white marble fireplace. Next door, the diningroom is painted a deep pink and the marble fireplace is in toning shades of terracotta. A high, arched alcove offers decorating scope and a pair of long windows overlook the rear garden.
The kitchen is on the lower return level. It is a sunny room with simple cream units topped in Corian, a cream and black Amtico floor and a redbrick arch housing a Belling range-style cooker. The family bathroom, on the first floor return, is both big and luxuriously fitted with antique-style sanitary ware. It has a stylish Amtico floor with a mosaic centrepiece.
There is a large hot-press, built-in medicine cabinet and a heated towel rail.
There are three bedrooms on the first floor, including the main room which has a bay window and a fully fitted en suite bathroom.
A short flight of steps leads to the second floor return where there is an attic bedroom. There are two further bedrooms at garden level, as well as a big family room, a second kitchen, a bathroom and a large wine cellar tucked into the space under the front steps. Most of the rooms at this level have new polished maple floors.
The back garden is bounded by high granite walls and has a healthy lawn, fruit trees, bushes and climbing plants. A gravelled pathway leads to an end rockery, a bank of high old trees and a potting shed.
