Donnybrook: €2.5mA virtual tour shows how this modest D4 semi - being sold with plans and planning permission - could be turned into a large modern home. Property Editor Orna Mulcahyreports
Viewers with plenty of cash and imagination are needed in Donnybrook, Dublin 4, where a modest semi-detached house is on the market along with full plans to transform it into a contemporary home with a Diarmuid Gavin-designed garden.
Number 10 Eglinton Park is being offered by developer Andrew Machesney who last year successfully sold a similar proposition on Trees Road, Mount Merrion - a house with planning permission in place, full architects plans and a virtual tour online so that viewers could see what the finished product would be like.
Having successfully sold in Mount Merrion, he snapped up Eglinton Park and has spent several months working on a design brief which has now been granted planning permission. The property is for sale by private treaty through Billy O'Sullivan & Associates with an asking price of €2.5 million.
Eglinton Park is a quiet cul-de-sac off Eglinton Road that's popular with older buyers trading down from larger homes in the area. These are solid well-built houses with generous back gardens and garages to the side.
Number 10 currently has 135sq m (1,450sq ft) of living space, but this would be more than doubled in the plans drawn up by Mahoney Architects and outlined in a virtual tour at www.deantus.com/andrew.
The three-bedroom house has permission to be transformed into a five-bedroom double-fronted home complete with a large open-plan livingroom/diningroom/kitchen overlooking the back garden.
This 70sq m (750sq ft) space alone is larger than most two-bedroom apartments. The sale price includes a new garden design by celebrity gardener Diarmuid Gavin for a back garden which is a generous size at 76ft by 52ft.
The plans can be adapted to allow for either a four or a five-bedroom layout upstairs, while the attic is also included in the new layout.
The virtual tour includes furniture from Minima, and an up-to-the-minute kitchen with concealed doors to pantry and utility areas.
All the owners have to do is find a builder and set to. Machesney, who gave up accountancy to work in property, is offering his services as a project manager.
