This stylish, modern house on a private lane in Blackrock sold in March 2017 for €1.025 million, to a buyer who hasn’t lived in it full-time, and it’s now back on the market seeking €1.25 million, an 18 per cent price hike.
37B Granville Park is the middle house of three large, detached houses built in 2005 at the top of a private driveway off Granville Park, a road off Newtownpark Avenue in Blackrock, Co Dublin. The 255sq m (2,745sq ft) four-bed is for sale through Sherry FitzGerald.
There are a number of Celtic Tiger flourishes, from modern fully-tiled bathrooms – three of the bedrooms have en suites – to speakers in the ceilings of the bedrooms. This is a “smart” home, with centrally-controlled lighting and home entertainment system.
It’s bright, with many of the rooms dual aspect. The front hall flooring is shiny pale tiles and its walls are painted white, in keeping with most of the house. The good-sized livingroom on the right has a box bay window overlooking the front, and another window to the rear, a sandstone fireplace with a coal-effect gas fire and underfloor heating. A small study on the left of the front hall has fitted shelves and a desk.
The diningroom, family room and kitchen/breakfastroom are off the hall near the back of the house. The separate diningroom has glazed doors and windows on both sides, and three small Velux windows in the ceiling. Double doors open on to a side patio. A timber-floored family room behind it is just as bright, with double doors opening out to the back garden.
Window seat
The kitchen/breakfastroom is long, with a window seat in the box bay window at the breakfastroom end overlooking the back garden. There’s a decent-sized utility room off it.
Upstairs, there are two bedrooms at the front of the house and two at the back, off a hall with another three Velux windows. The three en suite bathrooms and the family bathroom are all fully-tiled, each in a different style but equally smart.
The wide rear garden has a large sandstone patio, two raised lawns and a small gazebo. A traditional-style stone wall surrounds the front of the house and there’s plenty of room for parking to the side. It’s all very private: the three detached houses – 37C, which sold in 2010 for €1.25 million, 37B and 37A – aren’t visible from the tall electronically-controlled gates at the top of the lane.
