Many of the mews houses in the nicely private Pembroke Gardens, to the rear of Northumberland Road in Ballsbridge, were built in the early 1980s.
Number 29, built by RKD Architects in 1983, has been revamped and redesigned in the years since. The vendors, who have lived in number 29 for 14 years, did a big job 10 years ago, opening up the first floor and adding a two-storey extension to the rear. They have also put time and care into a delightful rear town garden, which has giant ferns and evergreens, a paved raised patio and spot lighting for nighttime effect.
With a growing family, they are moving to a bigger home. The extension makes for a total 176sq m (1,895sq ft) floor area, with three bedrooms (the main en suite and with walk-in dressingroom), open-plan kitchen/living/dining area, conservatory, study/playroom and shower room. There are gates and off-street parking to the front.
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Lisney is looking after the private treaty sale and is asking €950,000.
An upside-down house, in the sense that the bedrooms are on the ground floor and the living spaces are overhead, the extension created a ground floor, main bedroom suite and first floor study/playroom.
The large, white-painted open-plan kitchen/dining/living space has a high-pitched ceiling with a couple of Velux windows, a pale, ceramic tiled floor and a kitchen centre island with Silestone top, lit by a row of hanging tulip-shaped light fittings.
The living area leads to a wood framed, much-enjoyed conservatory and has an open fireplace, while the dining/kitchen area leads to a timber- floored study/playroom overlooking the rear garden.
All three ground-floor bedrooms have solid oak limed flooring. The main bedroom has a wood-framed patio door to the rear gardens, a walk-in dressing room and an en-suite bathroom with mosaic tiling. A second front-facing bedroom has a built-in wardrobe and the third overlooks the rear garden.
There is a shower room on this level, a utility area behind a folding screen and storage presses in the hallway.
