Heartwarming Greystones home for €715,000

A house in a small suburban estate a five to 10-minute drive from Greystones village is likely to appeal to a family with young children: it’s near the local tennis, GAA and rugby clubs and leisure centre and directly opposite the estate’s green space – and has loads of room after being extended and refurbished in the mid-noughties.

Now number 28 Burnaby Mill is a 193sq m (2,078sq ft) five-bedroom house with an extra 27sq m (286sq ft) of space in an attic conversion. It is for sale by private treaty through Sherry FitzGerald for € 715,000. Burnaby Mill is an estate of 45 houses built in the late 1990s and is not part of the original, mostly Edwardian, Burnaby estate nearer the centre of Greystones.

Traditional feel

Number 28 is a bright modern home with a comfortable, traditional feel to it, and its heart is definitely the large kitchen/breakfast room in the extended area that spans the width of the back of the house. It’s very bright, with four Velux windows in the timber ceiling and a large bay window with a built-in window seat.

On the left of the open-plan space is the kitchen, with a Rangemaster oven, polished granite island and plenty of cream-painted kitchen units. On the opposite side of the space is a cosy seating area where a cast-iron stove is fitted into a brick wall. Double doors open from here onto a deck and small lawn. There’s a good-sized utility room off the kitchen.

The decor throughout the house is a mix of traditional and modern, with solid oak floors downstairs (except in the kitchen, with its cream-tiled floor) and beige carpets upstairs; there are floral touches in cushions, curtains and rugs and modest chandeliers everywhere, even in the upstairs family bathroom – the owner found a waterproof chandelier online.

Granite fireplace

The livingroom – with a granite-surround fireplace and fitted cream bookshelves – and diningroom off the front hall are connected by fold-back double doors; there’s also a small family room and a guest toilet downstairs.

Upstairs, the extension has resulted in a good, wide landing off which open five bedrooms, four doubles and a single. All have fitted wardrobes and the main bedroom has a fully tiled en suite shower room. The family bathroom has cream wood tongue- and-groove panelling halfway up the walls, a clawfoot bath and a good-sized corner shower.

The spacious roof/attic space is bright, comfortable and carpeted, with Velux windows and five doors opening into under-eaves storage.