Stillorgan: €780,000The Farmleigh development of some 70 houses, off the Stillorgan Road in Stillorgan, Co Dublin has aged well in the quarter century since it was built.
Farmleigh Avenue is a quiet cul-de-sac lined with a number of different house designs amongst which number 16 is detached with dormer windows and an arched front porch giving it the look of a cottage. With a reasonable 153 sq m (1,650 sq ft) of floor space, it has four bedrooms, three reception rooms and a paved, inviting rear garden.
Agent Sherry FitzGerald is selling it by private treaty and is quoting a guide price of €780,000.
The floor space in number 16 is divided to give the maximum amount of separate living areas. The ground floor has a TV/family room to one side of the hallway, living and dining rooms to the other with double doors between. A good-sized kitchen breakfastroom leads to a utility room and there is a guest toilet off the hallway. The hardwood windows throughout come in pairs in many of the rooms and fit well with the polished oak flooring of the ground floor and pine in the bedrooms. Dado rails are also a feature throughout. Shades of cream and lemon everywhere add to a sense of light and space.
The TV/family room and livingroom have a pair of windows each, as well as dado rails and oak floors. A white marble fireplace in the sittingroom is gas-fired but the house's main heating system is oil-fired. The diningroom has French doors opening to the paved rear patio and garden.
The kitchen/breakfastroom makes the most of the landscaped rear garden with three large windows taking in the view. The wall and floor fittings are of timber, the floor is quarry tiled while a glass- panelled door leading to the entrance hallway means that particular area is filled with light from both the front and rear. Kitchen access to the side/rear is via a door from the utility room.
Three of the bedrooms are good sized with the main, en suite bedroom to the front. This has three, long windows, polished pine floorboards and a wall of built-in wardrobes with a central vanity unit. The en suite shower room is tiled in black, grey and white with an ornate wash-hand basin and toilet.
Two of the other bedrooms are to the rear, both with double windows and one with black painted floorboards. The fourth bedroom faces the front and the family shower room has ceramic tiled walls and floor. The rear garden has both a Barna shed and a larger, cement one housing the boiler. A tarmacadam area to the front is bounded by hedging and plants and has enough space to park two cars.
