Monkstown: €6.5m: A redbrick house on 0.6 of an acre with potential at Knapton Road in Monkstown has an AMV of €6.5 million prior to auction through Douglas Newman Good on October 19th. Kilcoran, built in 1928, has planning permission for two detached mews houses in a corner of the triangular-shaped site.
With big windows and simple cornices, it is an attractive family home of 335sq m (3,600sq ft). The five-bedroom house is spread over two floors with a shallow return. The double fronted façade with recessed entrance porch is flanked by two big reception rooms with square bay windows. The drawingroom is carpeted, but underneath has a floating timber floor, put in for dancing parties. It also has an elegant white marble fireplace.
Original tiles in the hall lead back to a square study and kitchens with Aga and terracotta tiles. An adjoining games room is a later addition.
The arched return is reached by a wide staircase and has a bathroom, separate toilet and single study/bedroom. Three steps up is the first-floor landing lit by a rectangular skylight with five bedrooms opening off it. Two of these are very large rooms.
Across a yard is a double garage, and there are pedestrian and vehicle entrances at the front.
Iron railings run along the front of the property which extends to the York Road junction. Knapton Road is near Monkstown village and Dún Laoghaire, the Dart and bus services, schools, shops and the sea.
