Cottonwood is a new development just off Carpenterstown Road, Dublin 15, which, when finished, will comprise seven detached houses. The scheme is being built by B&C Contractors, a small family-run developer and contracting firm from Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, founded by Michael McBride in 1974. McBride’s two sons, Colm, a structural engineer, and Jim, a civil engineer, now run the company.
In terms of residential property, they’re best-known for the contracting work they did on Coill Dubh, an estate of 74 three-, four- and five-bedroom properties in Malahide for Bovale Developments, which launched in 2014. But they’ve also done some small housing schemes in their native Carrickmacross as well as a pair of townhouses on Church Avenue in Sandymount that were completed last year. It was there that they first worked with Michelle Barrett of Haven Interiors, who also completed the showhouse for this Dublin 15 scheme.
In 2014 the brothers bought Cottonwood, a detached property built in the 1930s and set on one acre, with a view to demolishing it and building a small scheme on the land.
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That original Cottonwood property was one of the many houses that first came to market at the height of the boom. It was offered for auction in March 2007 with a guide price of around €5.75 million, but bidding peaked at €4.5 million and the property was withdrawn from sale. Seven years later, in April 2014, the McBrides paid €1.5 million for it.
Van Dijk Architects designed the seven Regency-style detached houses for the new development, and they are quite traditional in appearance. They have redbrick-fronted exteriors and sash windows, but a far more contemporary approach has been taken with the interiors.
The three-storey properties have smart painted kitchens with quartz countertops and measure 232sq m (2,497sq ft) in size.
Of the five houses being launched today, four will have west-facing gardens while the fifth, a corner site, will have an east-facing garden big enough to take afternoon and evening sun. The properties range in price from €995,000 to €1.07million through agents Flynn & Associates.
The last two houses will launch at a later date.
