Distinctive detached Foxrock home asking €975,000

Former hunting lodge with three bedrooms offers €156sq m in good condition

Gleneagle Lodge, Brighton Road, Foxrock, Dublin 18
Gleneagle Lodge, Brighton Road, Foxrock, Dublin 18

A detached bungalow in Foxrock, built in 1905, was once a hunting lodge according to the agent. With arched windows, a steeply pitched roof and wide eaves overhanging white exterior walls, Gleneagle Lodge has a distinctive look, different from the many Edwardian redbricks in the area.

Gleneagle Lodge, Brighton Road, Foxrock, Dublin 18, a 156sq m (1,680sq ft) three-bedroom house, is now for sale through Lisney for €975,000. It is an executor sale.

Lisney believes that someone downsizing from the area – one of south Co Dublin’s poshest neighbourhoods – could be attracted by Gleneagle Lodge, in spite of its nearly €1million price tag. Gleneagle Lodge is a comfortable house in good condition, but new owners are likely to want to modernise parts of it.

The property stands sideways to busy Brighton Road behind high stone walls, a short walk from Tullow Church and the junction with Glenamuck Road North. It’s a wide house, with the livingroom and diningroom at one end of the house and the kitchen at the opposite end.

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Large livingroom

The front door, to the centre, opens into a square, high-ceilinged front hall. The livingroom on the left is quite large and bright, with three windows, one a good-sized bay. It has a vaulted ceiling and a handsome ornate white timber fireplace. The diningroom, with a matching fireplace,opens off the back of the front hall and looks onto the narrow garden behind the house.

A long corridor at the right of the house leads to three bedrooms, all doubles. The main bedroom has floor-to-ceiling wardrobes and a recently-installed fully-tiled en suite shower room. There’s also a small toilet, a utility room and a newish fully-tiled family bathroom with a bath off the corridor.

The kitchen at the end of the house is long, and with five windows, bright: it has a tiled floor, smart fitted units and timber countertops. Former owners had laid a concrete base just outside the arched door that opens from the kitchen into the garden, and had plans to build a conservatory on it, says the agent. New owners could upgrade the kitchen and extend here. A sheltered and raised sandstone patio is up a few steps.

There’s room to park a few cars in the cobblelocked front garden.