Drumcondra: from €599,000Fourteen mews-style houses with a stylish fit-out are on sale at a popular D3 development. The three-storey, three-bedroom homes are at the Corn Mill development on Distillery Road, just off Clonliffe Road in Drumcondra.
The Glenbard Construction scheme, which takes its name from a 19th century corn mill building which forms the impressive entrance to the scheme, includes 120 apartments.
It was launched earlier this year and is maturing well. Landscaping is particularly attractive. It incorporates old archways and original steel columns from the mill and pretty seating areas, a water feature and stone sculptures.
A terrace of 14 mews-style homes forms the final element of the scheme and selling agent Hooke & MacDonald will be taking bookings at a show unit on site from today. Prices start at €599,000 for the houses which have 100sq m (1,075sq ft) of living space. A number of apartments are still available with prices starting at €345,000 for one-bedroom units.
Architects Quinn Hartnett has done a good job with the ground floor layout. This floor is mostly given over to a large open-plan room, which has been cleverly divided into distinct zones for dining, living and kitchen. The living area is to the front of the house and the kitchen to the rear.
A glazed panel in the kitchen wall gives a view onto the dining area, which has exposed red brick walls. Timber patio doors lead out to a smart city garden laid out in decking with a landscaped bank to the rear.
Two standard double bedrooms are on the first floor and a generously-sized main bedroom on the second.
The top floor also has a study, complete with a handsome built-in desk/computer station.
Fit-out at the townhouses is very good. Kitchens have polished granite worktops and integrated appliances. Polished porcelain floor tiling is standard in the hall and kitchen. Wardrobes are good quality and bathrooms and en suites are fully tiled.
Clonliffe Road is well known to thousands of GAA supporters who attend hurling and football matches at nearby Croke Park. In the foyer large format images of Croke Park today and in years gone by make a feature of the scheme's proximity to the sporting grounds.
Nearly all apartments at Corn Mill have views either onto green areas of Holy Cross College or Croke Park. The actual pitch is not visible from apartment balconies and the communal roof-top garden, but a large screen in the stands is.
All houses come with one car-parking space and maintenance fees are €420 a year.
