Eglinton Park, Donnybrook, Dublin 4 is a quiet 1930s cul-de-sac off Eglinton Road, which manages to combine the leafy privacy of suburbia with proximity to the city centre.
8 Eglinton Park will be auctioned on July 11 by Sherry FitzGerald which is guiding £540,000 (685,660). This semi-detached home has been progressively upgraded by its present owners over the past 14 years including an architect-designed kitchen and breakfastroom extension.
The entrance to a wide hall is via a redbrick framed porch and hall door with stained glass detail. The hall decorated in rust pink has a hardwood floor and looks through to a large bay window at the rear of the house.
To the left is a drawingroom with bay window and period tiled fireplace. Double folding doors are open to the diningroom where recessed book shelves and storage cupboards furnish the wall on either side of the period fireplace. Glazed doors lead to a rear garden patio.
A modern kitchen and breakfastroom are floored in maple and decorated in shades of rust and lemon. A large bay window with window seat encircling a dining table and the area is one of the focal points of this family home. A built-in bookcase on the opposite wall has closed cupboards underneath. There is a central fireplace, whose red-bricked chimney-breast acts as a room divider from the working kitchen.
The kitchen has good looking and extensive wall and floor units. A door from the kitchen leads into the garage, which is floored, shelved and plumbed to serve as utility and playroom, with access to the rear garden.
There is a ground floor toilet and cloak room. Upstairs there are four good-sized bedrooms, three with built-in wardrobes, one with open shelving. The main bedroom is enhanced by a bay window with stained glass panel feature. The attic is partly floored.
Outside, the front garden has been landscaped with cobblelock and gravel for off-street parking bordered by shrubs.
The private rear garden is set in lawn fringed by mature perennials and trees including a spring and autumn flowering cherry blossom.
There is a recessed patio area which could be incorporated into a conservatory, linking breakfastroom and diningroom.
