A spacious family home near the Phoenix Park is on the market with a drop of more than €1 million from its original price in 2007, writes UNA MULLALLY
APART FROM some building work defiantly chugging away in the background, the only noises in Farmleigh Woods are chirping birds and people remarking on the quiet.
The peacefulness aside, 7 Farmleigh Avenue, Castleknock, Dublin 15, a house on a terrace tucked away at the back of the development – near the Phoenix Park and Farmleigh House – is notable for its light. The place is full of it and one half of the art-loving couple selling says it’s her favourite trait of the house.
Originally a showhouse, when this house type was initially marketed in 2007, the price was €2,275,000. That fell to €1,400,000 by April 2009. Now this property is for sale at €950,000 through agent Sherry FitzGerald.
The kitchen is the highlight here. Doubling as a TV area, there’s enough space for all the large appliances you’ll need, a large island with four stools, a breakfast table, a sprawl-friendly couch in front of the gigantic TV, and light streaming in through the floor-to-ceiling windows. The space has lazy brunches written all over it.
Downstairs, a family/playroom, which is currently housing an impressive home cinema, shares the floor with a toilet and a two-car garage accessible from indoors, so no more scurrying out to the driveway in the rain. There are four bedrooms upstairs, or three if you want a home office, and a balcony that fringes two of them.
It’s an engaging, spacious house, but there are still some niggling features that take away from its allure: the balcony across two rooms on the middle floor features those frosted dividers that bookend either side, the rather petite sinks in the main bathroom are at odds with the vastness of the room itself, and little has been done to the back garden, which is relatively small.
That said, you could fit a city centre apartment in the main bedroom on the top floor, and although the boxy terrace off this room merely looks across at apartments, hammock hooks add some coolness.
Despite shortcomings in the outdoor space department, it’s still a spacious, peaceful and now well-priced family property in a decent location.
7 Farmleigh Avenue, Farmleigh Woods, Castleknock, Dublin 15
Four-bedroom terraced house near the Phoenix Park and Farmleigh House
Agent: Sherry Fitzgerald
