Detached houses usually offer owners the potential to extend and rework the layout and so when the owners of 5 Shrewsbury Park in Ballsbridge bought 22 years ago, they extended at the rear of their redbrick house to make a large, bright eat-in kitchen and family area, and a decade later converted the garage into a bedroom and en suite.
The work has left them with 207sq m/2,230sq ft in a well-laid out family home with four bedrooms, a fine formal reception room, a study and that open-plan living space across the rear.
Three of the double bedrooms are upstairs and what would probably have been a small nursery is now a dressing room opening off the main bedroom. That room also opens into a bathroom at the back and there is a further shower room accessible off the hall.
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The fourth bedroom is downstairs with its own en suite – which is the sort of flexible layout that might suit buyers looks to accommodate an elderly relative, an au pair or indeed a grown up, but still at home, child.
The kitchen features custom-built timber units and exposed timber beams and it opens out on to the mature back garden.
Shrewsbury Park is less well known than the renowned Shrewsbury Road and the houses that line it are relatively new builds, but as it is very quiet with large detached houses on their own plots with good gardens it has long been a desirable road.
Househunters looking at number 5 might get inspiration from the major overhaul being carried out on the most recent sale on the road, its neighbour, or they could simply move in and redecorate to their own tastes.
It is for sale by Ganly Walters for €1.35 million.
