Green outlook in Goatstown for €1.195m

When the Sacred Heart nuns in Mount Anville sold land for development in the late 1970s, they stipulated that 32 acres should be used by Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council as a public park.

That is why a house for sale near the entrance of the Mount Anville estate has views of Deer Park to the front – and backs onto the tree-filled grounds of Mount Anville.

Number 6 Mount Anville Park, Goatstown, Dublin 14, a 215sq m (2,314sq ft) detached four-bedroom house, is for sale through DNG for €1.195 million.

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The owners have lived for 37 years in a house which has been well maintained and upgraded over time. New owners may want to further modernise and update the décor, but it is a comfortable home.

It is certainly convenient for anyone with daughters in Mount Anville school: the current owner tells of the years when the house was filled with her daughter’s friends from the school next door.

One of the main additions to the original house is the conservatory/sunroom which stretches across the back of the house.

It has a timber ceiling with three Veluxes, sliding glass doors opening onto a patio and lushly planted back garden, which has a view of the convent’s tower.

Dramatic deep red

A long interconnecting livingroom and diningroom are on the left of the front hall: the diningroom is painted a dramatic deep red, matched by the chimneybreast in the livingroom; both rooms have a cream carpet.

Other accommodation downstairs includes a sittingroom between the kitchen and diningroom; a kitchen with a tiled floor and cream fitted units; and a tartan-carpeted study/family room looking across to the park. There’s also a small understairs toilet.

Upstairs there are four bedrooms, three with en suites, and a family bathroom. The bathrooms are smart, floored with black tiles with white tiled walls.

There is parking for a few cars in the cobble-locked entrance to the house.