DUBLIN 18: €4.1MA SEVEN-BEDROOM detached house near Foxrock church is for sale by private treaty through Daphne L Kaye for €4.1 million. The house, called Ballytrain, is set back from the N11 in a private avenue of three houses, each with large gardens.
Built in the late 1970s, Ballytrain was extended some years later in a seamless expansion which carries on the square white façade by joining it to another smaller block by means of a recessed bay with a tall arched window.
The driveway is to the side of the house, leaving most of the front space free for a private enclosed garden.
A portico entrance leads into a spacious marble-tiled hall with a very large reception room to the right. This room has pale carpet throughout and opens into a diningroom at the back of the house, giving one long space from front to back for parties. The space contains a good fireplace and Waterford chandeliers and more than enough room for a grand piano.
The hand-painted kitchen by John Daly is well thought out both in terms of layout and storage. There is an airy sunroom behind it looking out onto the back garden.
There is a door to the diningroom and another at the other end which leads into the extension with a new hallway that has a beautiful mosaic floor in white and blue.
This part of the house can be separated from the main house and has its own large sittingroom to the back with fine carved timber period fireplace. Another room here is used as a home office.
The bedrooms upstairs connect to the main upstairs rooms by a corridor leading to the staircase and landing of the main house.
The big main bedroom is at this end of the house and the sunny space has double doors in a curved bay onto an iron railed balcony, as well as a large en suite.
All of the other bedrooms are good doubles with plenty of room for a growing family.
At the back of the house several sets of double doors open onto a terrace and the private back garden. This is beautifully maintained with a round pool with fountain, manicured lawn and trickling water through a prettily planted rockery.
Ballytrain is near good schools and transport links.
Ballytrain, Foxrock, Dublin 18
Seven-bedroom house with an extension that can be self-contained. Gardens front and back
Agent: Daphne L Kaye
