Family favourite in 1960s Foxrock development for €925,000

A detached suburban house in Foxrock built by McInerney’s in 1965 was a happy home for the family that has owned it since then. Number 5 Beech Park Drive was the scene of many gatherings and the family’s adult children came home to hold parties there long after they’d moved out, says one of owner Maureen O’Neill’s daughters. O’Neill, who lived there until recently, taught in nearby Hollypark National School.

Now 5 Beech Park Drive, Foxrock, Dublin 18, a 150sq m (1,615sq ft) four-bed with a Ber of F, is for sale through Sherry FitzGerald for €925,000. It's on a quiet road in the middle of the suburb, opposite a large green space and tennis courts. Beech Park Drive is close to Kill Lane.

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The house, rented in recent years, has been freshened up for sale and is presented in excellent condition, with cream carpets and smart furnishings. The house was revamped 18 years ago, when a new kitchen was added, but there’s plenty of room for new owners to expand across the back of the house into the garden, creating a more modern open-plan kitchen-livingroom-diningroom.

The layout is simple: the front door opens into a double-height entrance hall, which some neighbours in similar houses have revamped to create a fifth bedroom. On the right is a small, neat study/home office overlooking the front driveway in the space that was once the garage. On the left is the bright livingroom, with a floor-to-ceiling picture window and a cream marble fireplace with a coal-effect gas fire.

Folding doors open from here into the timber-floored diningroom, with a wide arch over more folding doors opening into a space designated the breakfastroom. It’s also bright, with doors opening from the diningroom and breakfastroom into the back garden. The kitchen at the far end has a tiled floor, polished granite countertops and Velux roof windows.

There’s a downstairs toilet, and upstairs there are four bedrooms, three modest-sized doubles and a single. They all have unusually large single-pane windows, and three have built-in wardrobes. The main bedroom, overlooking the back garden, has a wall of Sliderobes. The smart family bathroom is fully tiled and has a bath and shower.

The back garden was Maureen O’Neill’s pride and joy, and has been recently landscaped. A semicircular patio has lots of room for garden seating, beside a large lawn fringed with mature bushes. There’s room to park a couple of cars in the cobblelocked front garden.