Ornate original ceiling plasterwork in many rooms is a striking feature of a house near the Castlepark Road end of Elton Park. The two-storey over garden level house in the middle of a terrace of four imposing redbrick Victorians is in good condition although it needs some updating. A self-contained garden-level flat could be reintegrated with the rest of the house – and there is potential for a mews to be built at the bottom of the back garden.
Number 6 Elton Park, Sandycove, Co Dublin, a 290sq m (3,122sq ft) five-bedroom house built in 1880, is for sale through agent Churches for €1.95 million.
A room at the front on the first floor – originally the drawingroom – that stretches the width of the house is the most impressive room in number 6. It has a large marble fireplace with green tiles inset, very intricate ceiling cornicing and a centre rose and two windows – one a tall, deep bay – looking across to Killiney Hill. The current owner doesn’t use it as a drawingroom, but new owners may choose to do so – or perhaps convert it into a very luxurious main bedroom.
Accommodation in the house includes a good-sized livingroom on the left of the front hall with a deep bay window. The diningroom behind it opens at the side into an attractive modern kitchen; double doors from here open into a small conservatory-cum-utility room, and stairs from here lead down to the narrow back garden.
Upstairs, there are three bedrooms as well as the drawingroom and a fully-tiled modern family bathroom. Two of the house’s five bedrooms are in the the garden-level flat: it’s in good condition, with a large sittingroom/diningroom, kitchen, bathroom and a utility room under the front stairs.
There is ample parking to the front, and a garage at the rear can be accessed off Elton Court, a small road off Castlepark Road. Mews houses facing onto Elton Court have already been built by most of number 6’s neighbours.
