An unusual apartment in the ground floor of a house built four years ago in the gardens of a period house off Palmerston Road in Rathmines, Dublin 6, is on the market.
The new house was built to blend in with its period neighbours and it is not immediately obvious from the outside that it is divided into two apartments.
Number 11 Temple Gardens has four bedrooms and extends to 2,175 sq ft. It has private landscaped gardens front and rear and its interior is finished with a high degree of flair and attention to detail.
The apartment is due to be auctioned by Lisney on May 24th and has a guide price of £850,000 (€1,08m).
The apartment has its own porched entrance, leading into a hallway with oak flooring, decorative plasterwork on the ceiling and yellow walls.
Off the hall are the two main reception rooms, each with carved marble mantelpieces and working fireplaces, which are also hooked up to natural gas. Both rooms are well-proportioned, have oak flooring and attract a great deal of light.
The drawingroom, painted an oatmeal colour, has four sash windows and the diningroom has a three-bay window. Doors lead from the main hallway into an inner hall. Off this is the L-shaped breakfastroom and Shaker-style kitchen with an extensive range of built-in appliances, a breakfast bar and a tiled splashback in green. This room has been upgraded by the designer Clive Nunn and has a door leading outside.
Nearby is a utility room with ample storage, as well as a bathroom finished in navy and white with bath and shower. There is a shower room as well, finished with Sottini fittings, as well as an en suite bathroom off the main bedroom. This room has a bay window and fitted wardrobes and is painted in classic Farrow & Ball colours which have been used extensively throughout the apartment. The second and third bedrooms are large doubles, and one of them has built-in wardrobes. The fourth bedroom is spacious and is currently used as a family room. The front garden is railed and gravelled with off-street parking; a gated side passageway leads to the walled rear garden, which is set out in lawn with flowerbeds, patio and a timber garden shed. The apartment has high ceilings conveying a sense of space, double-glazed hardwood windows throughout as well as a video alarm system.
