MALAHIDE €8MNo expense has been spared making this modern Malahide house into a spacious and stylish home

SET ON two-and-a-half acres just outside the walls of Malahide Castle Demesne, an eight-bedroom house extending to 780sq m (8,400sq ft) - is for sale by private treaty through O'Farrell Cleere Auctioneers, with an asking price of €8 million.

Newlands, on Back Road, was built three years ago and every detail in the house is finished with generous proportions and a period manner. Tripartite sash windows, a graceful curving staircase with turned banisters, and simple marble fireplaces set the tone.

The South African owner has given her taste for colour expression throughout the interior decoration with a resulting faintly exotic sophistication.

The main block of the house has a free-flowing feeling with reception rooms off the roomy hall which is lit from the U-shaped landing above. Double doors on either side lead into a gracious drawingroom and a large family sittingroom, the former decorated in shades of copper and moss green with touches of rose, and the latter in teal and blue against muted walls and solid wood flooring.

A magnificent sunroom leads off the drawingroom and carries the green theme through linking it in turn to the formal gardens.

Behind the familyroom facing the back garden is a wonderful kitchen/breakfastroom with marble tiled floor, bespoke units by Dovetail, and Neff integrated appliances.

An island unit with oval fruitwood inset and space for three chairs makes an informal dining arrangement while there is plenty of room for a dining table set towards the bay windows and French doors at the other end.

There is also a study, utility and guest cloakroom at this level and a link to a separate wing which houses a smart office suite, a lovely self-contained one-bedroom flat, two further bedrooms and a laundry room. Upstairs, five bedrooms open off the main landing, the main bedroom with dressingroom and en suite bathroom to one side and four more on the other side, two with en suite and two sharing a large bathroom.

The main bedroom and the second bedroom both have double doors opening on to a decked terrace, but all the bedrooms are beautifully situated and flooded with light from large sash windows.

A door links to the wing and the landing has French doors at either end leading to a balcony in front and the decked terrace behind.

Outside the surrounding gardens, while still young, have been designed in a formal way to suit the house style, with parterre patios of box and gravel, a walled paved garden outside the kitchen and two areas of formal trelliswork in a large lawn.

Many trees have been planted which in years to come will give this great house the look of an old estate. Malahide is near the airport and link road to Belfast as well as the Dart and schools.

Newlands, Back Road, Malahide, Co Dublin
Spacious house in a period style with many extras Agent:O'Farrell Cleere Auctioneers