Ravenswood is a pretty 1940s cottage-style bungalow on half an acre opposite the entrance to Malahide Castle, on Dublin Road, Malahide. It is expected to make in the region of £550,000 at auction through Lisney on June 29th. The four-bedroom house is reached via a gravelled driveway and given privacy by high old trees. It has a pair of feature bay windows, which have the original, multi-paned glass, and an ornate front porch on wooden supports.
There are two reception rooms, a small conservatory, large kitchen/ breakfast room, two en suite bedrooms and many original, steel-framed windows. The floor area is just over 1,600 sq. ft but there is planning permission for a very large extension to the side which, if taken up by new owners, would add five more bedrooms. The deep front porch has terracotta tiles and leads to the glass-panelled front door. The entrance hallway, like other rooms in the house, has very high ceilings, dado and picture rails and a polished timber floor. Off this first part of the hallway there is a drawing room with walls of deep Prussian blue and one of those front bay windows. The fireplace has a mahogany surround and tiled inset. The sitting room is at the end of the hallway. Yellows predominate in this room, which has another bay window as well as a fireplace with decorative pine surround and tiled inset. Shelving has been built into the wall beside it. A door with coloured glass panels leads into the conservatory. Running along the side of the house, this has a polished, timber floor, more coloured glass in the windows.
The kitchen is to the right off the inner hallway. A large room - it measures almost 20 ft by 16 ft - the working part has the sink by the window, fitted units in wood, a large linen/hot press and a door to the side of the house.
The first of the bedrooms, on the opposite side of the hallway, has a window overlooking the gardens and a door into the family bathroom - which is also reached via a door from the hallway. The walls here are partly tiled in white, the floor is of polished timber and there is a wash-hand basin, toilet and bath. A second, smaller bedroom has a wash-hand basin and a window looking out on the garden; a third, larger bedroom has an en suite shower room. A door at the end of the hallway leads to the main bedroom with its en suite bathroom.
The south facing gardens are to the side and rear of the house and are separated from the gravelled front area by trellis and high hedging. Mostly lawned, there are also high evergreens, fruit trees and bushes of all sorts. Just outside the conservatory there is a small patio area and at the end of the garden, in the shade of the old trees, a garden shed.
