Property of the Week: Co Dublin: A redbrick which faces the entrance to Castlepark School in Sandycove, Co Dublin, has a guide of €1m. Rose Doyle reports
Local lore has it that the houses on Castlepark Road, Sandycove were built as homes for the teaching staff of the nearby and then newly-built Castlepark School towards the end of the 19th century.
What is certain is that 8 Castlepark Road, to be auctioned on February 18th through Lisney with a guide price of €1 million, dates from the late 1800s, faces the turreted entrance to the school and has many Victorian features intact.
It is a spacious 213 sq m (2,300 sq ft) terraced house with notably high ceilings and deep bay windows to the front. It has four bedrooms, three reception rooms and a large kitchen/ breakfastroom/ sunroom to the rear which was added in recent years. Cornices and covings, fireplaces and doors are all original and sash windows have been restored by Ventrolla.
The layout is traditional with two reception rooms off the hallway, though without the usual interconnecting double doors between. The front sittingroom has a deep bay window facing into the high-hedged front garden and a white-marble fireplace. This has had a gas-fire fitted.
The cornice work and picture rail have been picked out in white against the pale sea-green of the walls. The room to the rear has a maple floor and French window opening onto steps down to a patio and garden. A highly ornate fireplace in white marble has insets of earth-coloured marble and decorative tiles.
The kitchen/breakfastroom /sunroom was added just four years ago. The working kitchen has an extensive range of white-painted units, some of them glass fronted, and a central raised skylight.
It is separated from the breakfastroom/sunroom area by a counter. Stone-coloured burnt earth tiles cover the floor and the dining area has windows which curve into the rear garden, simulating the bays to the front. A double glass door leads to the side patio.
In this rear part of the house there is a diningroom. Bright and yellow-painted, it has a leaded glass window between it and the kitchen, a gas-fired stove and a window onto the patio.
The large maple-floored entrance hallway has an attractive original double alcove just inside the door, which is itself surrounded by ornate leaded glass.
A guest toilet under the stairs has a hanging area for cloaks.
The first of the four bedrooms is on the return, a smallish room with maple floor, white-painted cast-iron fireplace and window to the rear. Also on the return there is a toilet with wash-hand basin and red-tiled floor.
Two of the other three bedrooms are off the first floor landing with the main en suite bedroom to the front. The bay window here gives a glimpse between rooftops of the bay and there is a picture rail, coving and built-in wardrobes to either side of the bed. The en suite has a sash window along with power shower, toilet, wash-hand basin, heated towel rail and tiled walls and floor. The third bedroom, to the rear, has a white cast-iron fireplace and picture rail.
A family bathroom on the second return has a small window, deep bath with shower, wash-hand basin and toilet. The fourth bedroom has an attic-style ceiling, maple floor and window to the rear.
The rear garden has a grassed area and, at the end, steps to a raised terracotta-tiled terrace with wooden playhouse and granite walls. The patio area closer to the house has a Barna shed.
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