Devotion to design at Temple

DUBLIN 6: €10MThis fine six-bedroom house at Temple Villas, on Palmerston Road, has been extended, renovated and smartly modernised, writes Bernice Harrison

ANOTHER SUPERB, recently renovated Dublin house in the heady €10 million price bracket has come on the market.

Temple Villas is a continuation of Palmerston Road and number 9 Temple Villas is a fine detached six-bedroom house that has been extensively renovated, extended and smartly modernised over the past year.

The work has just been finished and the owners, who bought four years ago, have decided not to move in but to sell on. Agent Jackson Colliers-Stops is handling the sale.

At 410sq m (4,400sq ft) this is a very large house and, as it's double fronted with good light and, with a wide hallway, it feels even more spacious.

On the right side of the hall is the first of the large reception rooms. On the left there is another livingroom that opens into a diningroom which in turns opens into the vast kitchen and living area that runs along the back of the house in the new, redbrick light-filled extension.

The kitchen has been fitted with Chalon, antique-look units topped with black stone. There is a large island unit and a long list of appliances that includes a duel fuel cream Aga. Freestanding Chalon cupboards complete the traditional look.

The flooring is large limestone tiles - there is underfloor heating throughout the hall floor level. There's also a large Chalon-fitted utility room and a guest cloakroom.

Upstairs, over two storeys, are six bedrooms all with contemporary-styled marble and mosaic shower en suites.

The main bedroom is the most impressive one with a large bathroom en suite.

All of the bedrooms are doubles, though carving up one of the bedrooms to make space for an en suite has resulted in a room better used as a single bedroom.

There is no family bathroom, perhaps an unusual decision in a family house and the only bath is in the main en suite.

The gardens have been recently landscaped in an attractive and suitably formal style.

There is a very cute, copper-topped little summer house in the back garden. To the front is off-street parking for three cars.

9 Temple Villas, Dublin 6

Six-bedroom double-fronted house measuring 410sq m (4,400sq ft)

Agent:Jackson Colliers-Stops