A semi-detached house a short walk from the Forty Foot in Sandycove, Co Dublin, built in 1919, has been extended in stages over the past 30 years. It retains period details, like cast-iron fireplaces, stripped and polished timber floors, art deco-ish doors from a study into a living room extension and clever new details like rooflights over the kitchen’s dining area. It also has a long, sheltered, intricately-planted back garden.
The house and garden have been lovingly maintained by the owner, who’s now downsizing to live in an apartment nearby: she is leaving appliances and some furniture in the house and garden for new owners and offering plans of the garden as well.
The Ramblers, a four-bedroom 194sq m (2,088sq ft) semi-detached house on Sandycove Avenue East is for sale by private treaty through agent Janet Carroll for € 1.395 million.
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Original fireplace
A front door with stained-glass panels designed by the owner opens into a short oak-floored hall. On the left is a sitting room with its original fireplace and a tall bay window with a window seat. Behind it is the original dining room, now used as a study: the original art-deco-ish doors that once opened from here into the garden now open into the bright L-shaped livingroom/kitchen.
Designed by architect Martin Noone, this is a very bright space. Floored with terracotta tiles, the conservatory-style living room has roof-lights, and floor-to-ceiling windows with French windows opening onto the garden. It curves around to the dining area and a long compact modern kitchen with Miele appliances, polished granite countertop, Belfast sink, cream kitchen units and pull-out larders on either side of the in-built oven.
To the side, off the living room, there’s a bedroom/study/au pair’s room or granny flat with its own shower room and separate entrance from the front of the house, created in what was originally the garage. Upstairs, there are three more bedrooms, all with their own modern, tiled bathrooms and lots of wardrobes.
There are two large doubles – the main bedroom at the front has a cast-iron fireplace, one at the back of the house is light, bright and overlooks the garden. A short corridor leads to another smaller double.
The 95 ft-long back garden is clearly a labour of love for the owner, who points out three apple trees boughed down with autumn fruit, cherry trees, ferns, holly and a multitude of other plants.
The garden winds past an ornamental pond through a pergola to a patio at the far end. There is a landscaped garden at the front and space behind electronic gates for one car.
