Irish, with a touch of French

DUBLIN 5: €435,000:Parquet flooring gives a Gallic flavour to a cottage in Killester that's had a total revamp

A COTTAGE in Killester with a distinctly French feel has come on the market through Gallagher Quigley asking €435,000.

Parquet flooring and woodwork painted blue give a Gallic flavour while the name, Abhaile Enfin, or home at last, also nods towards France.

The address of this semi-detached house is 42 Middle Third, Killester, Dublin 5. Middle Third is a road that connects Killester Avenue with Abbeyfield and Abhaile Enfin is just a couple of hundred yards from Killester Dart. Rewired, replumbed and replastered entirely over the last three years, the house is in walk-in condition, and is already attracting a lot of attention according to sales agent Conor Gallagher.

There is off-street parking in front of the house and a long garden, bounded by deep hedging on all sides and laid out mostly in lawn. This would be suitable, says Gallagher, for planting vegetables, a fashionable suggestion these days.

Inside, the house is more city apartment than country cottage, with solid oak parquet flooring running through the hall and into the livingroom with its quaint cast-iron fireplace and French doors opening to the garden.

The first of the bedrooms, currently used as a study, leads off the livingroom and so does, the kitchen which is through an open arch and has and L-shaped run of hand-painted units with a long stainless steel worktop.

There are three bedrooms, all immaculately decorated in muted paints by Farrow & Ball.

A family bathroom has tongue and groove panelling and there is also a shower room, along with a room that could be an additional bedroom in the attic.

Abhaile Enfin, 42 Middle Third, Killester, Dublin 5

Three-bedroom semi-detached cottage has city apartment style

Agent:Gallagher Quigley