Rathenree, a four-bedroom detached house on Gordon Avenue, Foxrock, combines a wonderful garden, a recent extension and refurbishment and a prime location to make it a property to note. It will be auctioned on November 8th, with Daphne Kaye & Associates guiding in excess of £900,000, which includes fitted carpets, curtains, kitchen equipment and light fittings.
The detached house, built in 1927, has 2,200 sq ft of accommodation and stands on one third of an acre. There is a drawingroom, family room, remodelled kitchen and breakfastroom - all with back garden views - as well as a diningroom and new home office.
The refurbishment included the creation of a first-floor bathroom and a new en suite shower room, plus rewiring, replumbing, installation of gas-fired central heating, timber framed double glazing and garden landscaping.
The entrance hall has period pine flooring and a warm, bright colour scheme. The drawingroom to the left is pale and pretty. Running the length of the house, light pours into it from the front-facing, square bay window and a rear window. Across the hall, the diningroom is darker and richer with bronze-coloured wallpaper, cream ceiling and curtains. Both rooms have York stone fireplaces with coal-effect gas fires.
The family room is part of the extension. A large room currently furnished with easy chairs, it has a pine floor, glazed doors to the garden and a roof atrium. The garage has been converted into a home office with pitch pine flooring. Fitted bookcases and cupboards include shelves and filing drawers. The Shaker-style kitchen cabinets have been handcrafted in poplar, and painted a Wellington green. They are topped in black granite and trimmed with large mahogany knobs. A fashionable Lacanche electric and gas range, with its stainless-steel extractor, will be included in the price, along with a fridge, freezer and a free-standing butcher's block. Steps from the kitchen lead down to a new breakfastroom with a polished timber floor and glazed double doors to the back garden.
A plumbed utility room nearby offers more storage space and another sink unit. There is a ground floor cloakroom with lavatory and under-stairs storage. Upstairs, the main bedroom has hand-made double fitted wardrobes painted white. The en suite shower room has an ivory suite with double power shower and smart black and white diamond ceramic floor tiling.
There are three more bedrooms, each with a feature cast-iron fireplace. All share a spacious family bathroom with bath and separate shower.
The front of the house has a granite gravel driveway, mature hedging and flower-beds. The landscaped back garden, which has featured in Image Interiors, has a sunken patio in sandstone which leads via terraces to a raised formal garden with a wonderful variety of herbaceous perennials, shrubs, trees and roses providing year-round colour. At the end of the lawn is a summer house with deck flooring.
