Green Park is at the Churchtown end of Orwell Road – a long winding road leading up the hill from Rathgar village. The houses were built on the front of the road facing on to Milltown Golf Club and in a short cul-de-sac.

It was developed in the early 1930s by John Kenny, one of the busiest and most successful builders of his day. He also built large detached homes in Mount Merrion and Rathgar as well as the local authority estates on the northside in Marino and Cabra.

In Green Park he offered buyers a choice of eight different styles and various interior options and in the end, such was the demand for large houses with substantial gardens that just 10 houses were built on the nine acre site.

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Number 22 Green Park, which is on Orwell Road, last came on the market in the 1980s and its empty nester owners are now downsizing. For buyers this time around, likely to be a growing family trading up, number 22 offers a good balance of bedrooms and reception rooms, a terrific garden, and all in move-in-tomorrow condition having been upgraded and well maintained down through the years.

It was also extended by its current owners and the family room that was built to the rear off the kitchen in recent years is a terrific – and well designed – addition. It’s a large bright room with a pitched timber clad ceiling, a sandstone fireplace and large windows looking out over the lawn and patio. In all there is 270sq m (2,896sq ft) and the 0.2 acre site allows for a large garden that is maturely planted and with a pitch-roofed shed that could be converted into a useful studio or home office.

As well as the fine family room there are the original interconnecting reception rooms – the one to the front has a wide bow window – on one side of the hall and a smaller room used by the owners as a study.

Upstairs the five bedrooms are over two levels. To the front is off-street parking for several cars.

Number 22 Green Park is for sale through Sherry FitzGerald seeking €1.895 million.