Monkstown: €795,000A southside house - which has bay views - is decorated with great charm, writes Eivlín Roden

A two-bedroom townhouse with a fresh Scandinavian-style interior in a small development in Monkstown is for sale by private treaty through Olivers at €795,000.

It's in The Slopes, an enclave of just seven modern houses off Vesey Place, with views across the rooftops towards Dublin Bay.

Number 6 is the middle house in a terrace of three split-level homes. Accessed through a communal railed garden with car-parking for several cars and up a short flight of stairs, the front façade may seem small. But, as the name implies, the Slopes is built on a steep site at the top of a green valley which falls away behind with terrific views over Sloperton and Longford Terrace in the distance to the sea. In between is a large piece of land belonging to Monkstown Park School.

Because of this, the house is set over three-and-a-half levels, in a quaint old-fashioned way but with spare interiors of great charm and simplicity. The small hall is white with white-painted floorboards and off this is a cloakroom on one side and a door into a split-level livingroom on the other. This is a pretty room with a marble fireplace and square bay window, and a short flight of stairs leads to a bright square space which has a deeply sloping ceiling and six skylights in two rows of three with views of the sea.

Both these rooms are spacious and are decorated with a lot of white and whitened Danish-style floorboards, and get morning and evening sunlight.

The hall leads to a few stairs down to a roomy kitchen/diningroom to the back of the house, decorated in white with units dividing the space, and French doors to a wooden deck with honeysuckle clambering over the railings.

The bedrooms are at a lower level and both are good doubles with en suite bathrooms and good wardrobe space, as well as French doors leading to little terraces, one to the front and one to the back. There are full-sized baths in both en suites.

White-painted working shutters have been fitted in both bedrooms, and there is sisal carpeting both here and on the stairs.

Outside, the three houses each have a small private garden with a wild garden communally owned below and huge old trees planted to one side which in summer would give complete privacy.