Castleknock €2.4m:At a time when fewer and fewer houses are coming under the hammer, the owner of a large home in the Georgian Village, Castleknock, has decided to take the auction route.
Number 139 Georgian Village was one of the first houses to be built in what is an early 1970s enclave of over 100 detached homes near the Phoenix Park.
The house, at the lower end of the Georgian Village, has been one family's home for the last 35 years. Elegantly comfortable, it has lots of light and lovingly cared for gardens back and front.
An extension at the end of the 1970s added a livingroom-sunroom with a wide bay window curving into the rear garden, making the most of its south-west facing orientation.
Accommodation in the 186sq m (2,000sq ft) house includes four bedrooms, four reception rooms and a kitchen/breakfastroom.
There's development potential in a double garage to the side and the gardens, back and front, have tree and shrub life varied enough to gladden any gardening heart.
Sherry FitzGerald Lewis Beirne has put an AMV of €2.4 million on the property prior to auction on March 5th.
The curved bay window in the livingroom has deep and comfortable built-in seating. There are generous bookshelves to either side of the wood-surround open fireplace and cleverly inserted display cabinets on either side of the double doors leading to the diningroom.
The drawingroom has tones of green and honey-yellow and a pleasant old-style family feel about it. A small study to the front has two windows and a wealth of shelving. The main en suite bedroom is at the front of the house; a back bedroom has views of the garden and of the not-too-distant Farmleigh estate.
Snowdrops and daffodils are already in bloom in the back garden, which wraps around the house. There is plenty off-street parking in a gravel driveway to the front.
