In the mid-1870s a doting father of three daughters built a terrace of three villa- style houses for them on Military Road in Killiney. The youngest got what is now the largest, the end-of-terrace Lothlorien. It has six bedrooms and four reception rooms over 398sq m/ 4,284sq ft of space.
Savills, which is handling the sale, has put a confident price of €1.75 million on the redbrick period house. The owners, who moved in 25 years ago, are downsizing.
The most striking feature of this interesting house is the large conservatory at the front, just inside the hall door. Conservation reports – Lothlorien, like much of Killiney’s Victorian stock, is a protected structure – suggest it was built shortly after the house was built. It has added greatly to the house, not just in the square footage but because the house has good sea views over Killiney Bay and this sunny room takes full advantage of that.
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Also facing the front are two large livingrooms, both attractive, with two rooms to the back, a diningroom and a bedroom. Adjacent to that is a full bathroom. A feature on this level is the unusually high ceilings – they’re a dramatic 5½m high.
Wrap-around gardens
Downstairs the layout is quite different – there are about 10 rooms and several are quite small, so new owners will probably start a top-to-bottom renovation by figuring out a different use of the space.
Five bedrooms are down here and there are bathrooms and storerooms. On this level three sets of double doors open out on to the sheltered, mature front garden.
One opens into the open- plan familyroom and kitchen, which runs the depth of the house; another is a bedroom; and the third, under the conservatory and built at the same time, is a home office.
The gardens wrap around the back with a large, west-facing, beautifully planted rear garden. The house is well back from Military Road, at the top of a narrow driveway, and there is parking for several cars. At the back on the hill is a private, westerly-facing garden.
