6 Hazelhatch, Thormanby Road, Howth, Co Dublin
The entrance to Hazelhatch estate, off Thormanby Road, is as discreet and unassuming as the enclave itself.
Built in 2007, the Hazelhatch houses are a pleasant walk from the summit and set well back from the road in a leafy semi-circle.
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Number 6 Hazelhatch, for sale by private treaty through DNG, has the lovely light and space typical of the houses in this community and an asking price of €650,000.
The price is a measure of the “property bubble effect”. The vendor paid €1.15 million for number 6 at the height of the boom era.
The well-stocked, landscaped rear patio/garden is laid out with Indian sandstone, has a central circular area to relax and a Barna shed.
The house itself has three bedrooms (one en suite), a sittingroom, open-plan kitchen cum breakfastroom, and a family bathroom in 108sq m (1163sq m) floor space.
A new owner may be impressed by its Beam central vacuum system and Octopus sound system. The ground level floors are of solid oak, as are the doors and staircase.
The front-facing sittingroom, filled with light from windows at the front and side, has a graceful, gas-fired pale stone fireplace.
A decent sized reception hallway floods pools of light from glass panels to the side of the front door.
The rear kitchen cum diningroom has interesting, dark brown polished granite worktops and counter, a full range of contemporary fittings and a French door to the patio/garden.
All three bedrooms are off the first floor landing. The main, en suite bedroom mirrors the dual aspect of the sitting room below.
The second and third bedrooms overlook the rear garden.
19 Thormanby Lawns, Howth
In a nicely grown-up development with trees, hedges and a nearby shortcut to Howth village, 19 Thomanby Lawns has 44 years of living behind it and, solidly built and well-maintained, a great deal of living ahead. A new owner will no doubt want to revamp the dated decor and renovate as well as revamp the quintessential 1970s kitchen, but the essentials, including a sauna and effective rear garden with useable greenhouse, are in place for comfortable family life.
This is a large house; it has a floor space of 208sq m (2,239sq ft); with lots of large, plate-glass windows filling it with light. It has an entrance porch, four good-sized bedrooms (two en suite), a fifth first-floor room with balcony that could be used as a study, an L-shaped livingroom, kitchen/breakfastroom, family room and converted playroom.
The executor’s sale is through Property Team JB Kelly asking €750,000.
Number 19 was home to a large, growing family and was lived in until recently. A rear family room, off the kitchen/ breakfastroom, is an extension to the original house and has something of a sunroom feel about it with a couple of large, tunnel Velux, rear windows overlooking the garden, a beamed ceiling and window/ hatch to the kitchen. The well-fitted kitchen is darkened by the wood-effect work and counter tops and wood panelled walls.
The front-facing L-shaped livingroom has a gas-fired, white marble fireplace, two plate-glass picture windows and ornate, leaded-glass doors giving access from the hallway. A one-time garage to the side is now a playroom with front and rear garden access and a hatch to the kitchen.
The bedrooms are good- sized, those to the rear have sea and coast views and two are en suite. There is a two three-person sauna in the family bathroom, a sunken bath, porthole window and cork flooring.
