Ballsbridge: €2.8mLisney is guiding €2.8 million prior to auction for 40 Wellington Road, Ballsbridge, a two-storey over garden level four-bedroom terraced house with 289 sq m (3,110 sq ft) of living space. Bought four years ago by the current owners for £1.5 million (€1.9 million), the house has been given a thorough makeover in a cool, contemporary style.
Off-street car-parking was sacrificed to create a tastefully designed front garden with an allee of magnolia trees and a variety of exotic grasses and bamboo with tall hedging giving subtle but effective privacy.
A flight of granite steps lead to a wide and expansive hallway with wonderful cornicing. The interconnecting reception rooms are typical of a house of this size and period, tall and elegant with fine ceilings and matching marble fireplaces.
Towards the lower ground level there is a return which consists of a well designed and functional utility space and guest lavatory. The lower ground level has a big eat-in kitchen and livingroom that runs from front-to-back of the house with French doors at either end. The limestone-floored kitchen has a range of integrated Neff appliances and a gleaming white Aga set in a brick chimneypiece.
Seamless Corian covers the worktops, while a large maple island unit with top-of-the-range ceramic hob and oven and double sink occupies the centre of the room. French doors lead to the front garden with a small patio and fragrant herbaceous border stocked with flowers and herbs. The French doors leading from the rear-facing dining area open into a conservatory which in turn leads on to the garden.
Back at hall level, an unusually wide mahogany staircase leads upstairs to the return with the first bedroom, currently used as a study, accessed through double frosted glass doors.
Further upstairs is the main landing with three bedrooms, all doubles. The main bedroom is finely proportioned with lots of detail, including cornicing, shuttered windows and period-style built-in wardrobes. The adjoining bathroom is spacious with an elegant Villeroy and Boch bathroom suite, fully tiled in subtle grey tones.
The second double bedroom, which is being used as an office, has a unconventional design with a vaulted ceiling and pitch pine floor. There are also two Velux windows, a window looking out to Wellington Road, contemporary light fixtures, ornate cast-iron fireplace and shelved alcoves on either side. The third bedroom has a walk-in closet and is decorated in muted tones with a large sash window.
