Many of Dublin’s Victorian houses have fine period features – but few with details as rich and undamaged as those in Hughenden, a house on Silchester Road in Glenageary, Co Dublin. These are most evident in the drawingroom on the first floor, which has deep cornicing and a large centre rose in the 13ft-high ceiling; it also has two deep bay windows and a white marble fireplace with rose-patterned tiles inset.
It’s the most striking room in a house that has been maintained in fine condition by Hughenden’s owners, who have lived here for close to 50 years. New owners may choose to modernise the well- equipped but somewhat dated kitchen, re-install a staircase linking the ground floor to the garden level, even extend into the beautiful, long back garden. But although the house has potential, it is still a comfortable home in excellent condition.
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Hughenden, a 340sqm (3,660sq ft) four/five bedroom redbrick on 0.4 of an acre across from Glenageary tennis club on Silchester Road in Glenageary, Co Dublin, is for sale by private treaty through Lisney for € 1.95 million. Built in 1879, it is named – for reasons unknown to its owners – after the home of Disraeli, Britain's prime minister in the 1860s and '70s.
There is a tall alcove and rich decorative cornicing in the grand entrance hall of Hughenden. Two reception rooms open off it to the right: there are two tall, deep bay windows in the livingroom and a white marble fireplace. The diningroom behind it has a smart black marble fireplace. Down a few stairs at the back of the hall is a timber-floored room that could be a study with a picture window overlooking the back garden. A door in the kitchen, at the end of the hall, opens on to steps down into the garden.
Upstairs, there’s a double bedroom with a deep bay window on the return, and a family bathroom with a Victorian reproduction sink. On the first floor, there are two double bedrooms and a bathroom as well as the drawingroom, which the agents are describing as a possible fifth bedroom. At the top of the house, on the second return, there’s another bedroom from which there are sea views.
The garden level of the house, with separate access from the front and back, was renovated fairly recently, but has no kitchen: with one added, it could be a separate flat.
The back garden is a long lawn between high stone walls, bordered by flowerbeds. A gravelled path leads down to a glasshouse and vegetable patch. There is good space for parking in the gravelled front garden.
Hughenden is two houses up from Lord’s Walk, the pedestrian lane from Silchester Road to The Metals, the walk that runs beside the Dart line from Dún Laoghaire to Dalkey. And it’s a short walk to Glenageary Dart station.
