Situated within a stone’s throw of the campus at UCD, a minute’s walk to the N11 bus corridor, within a nine-iron’s swing of Elm Park Golf course and just a 10-minute walk to Donnybrook village, number 10 Greenfield Park is an incredibly well located house. Despite this connectivity, the street feels sleepily suburban – in a good way. It’s a property you could move into with young children and remain in all your life.
The semi-detached house was built in the 1920s and is of an era where its 100ft-long garden would have been considered relatively modest. By today’s standards it is one of the property’s key selling points. Northwest facing and broken up by mature trees and pathways, it is just crying out for some attention and if funds could stretch to it at some stage, a summer house to its rear would catch southerly rays all day long.
Open fireplaces
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There is already plenty of room to manoeuvre in the bay-fronted house. While in need of modernisation, it has lovely proportions. The two reception rooms have open fireplaces with matching wooden mantles and tiled insets.
A narrow set of sliding doors divide the rooms. Patio doors in the diningroom, the room to the rear, open out to the garden.
The property has retained its original and heat-leaking steel frame windows at ground level.
An integral part of the house’s look and feel, it would be lovely to see them conserved, restored or replaced with similar steel windows that match the age of the house.
There is a third smaller reception room, a den to the front of the house with under stairs cupboards that could be reconfigured to house a media system.
Four bedrooms
The kitchen to the rear is in need of an update. For ideas the next owner might like to look at the adjoining property to see how they extended and reconfigured their house in a style sympathetic to the original. The kitchen has a walk-in pantry that is worth retaining and a door that opens out to a garage that runs the depth of the house adding a potential further 40 sq m to the main house which measures 164 sq m (1765 sq ft). A good architect might open this up to the original kitchen, subject to planning permission.
Upstairs, there are four double bedrooms with two of these being very roomy. The bathroom has a separate bath and shower and the WC is separate from it.
The house has off-street parking for several cars, a Ber rating of E2 and is asking €1.3 million through agents Sherry FitzGerald.
