TERENURE: €775,000:13 Parkmore Drive, Terenure, Dublin 6W
Revamped 1930s redbrick with lots of light for €775,000
Agent: Douglas Newman Good
THE ADDITION of a streamlined kitchen, sunroom and pale maple floors has transformed number 13 Parkmore Drive, Terenure, Dublin 6W from a typical, 1930s two-storey, semi-detached, redbrick house into an altogether lighter, brighter and more open home.
The sense of space and light begins in the entrance hallway where a polished, honey-coloured floor makes the most of the light on three sides.
Parkmore Drive is a quietish, well-established road close to Terenure village and houses there rarely come on the market. The vendors, who moved in 10 years ago and have done major work on it, are only its second owners.
Number 13 has three bedrooms (one en suite), two interconnecting reception rooms, kitchen-breakfastroom and sunroom-diningroom.
It has a floor area of 158sq m (1,700sq ft), garage and good-sized, well-planted gardens front and rear. The asking price is €775,000 and Douglas Newman Good the agent.
Original sculleries and outhouses were removed to make way for the extension but features like doors (complete with brass handles) and picture rails were retained. Fireplaces were replaced in the reception rooms with a couple of gas-fired, clean-lined models in Spanish sandstone.
There is a bay window to the front and, to the rear, sand-blasted glass panels in another set of attractive double-doors to the sunroom.
The kitchen has dark, gold-speckled granite worktops as well as an array of fitted presses. It opens into the sunroom where a couple of Velux and two walls of windows allow in all possible light. Timber window sills pick up on the floor timbers and French doors lead to decking and the rear garden. The main, en suite bedroom is off the first floor landing and has a bay window mirroring that on the ground floor; it has extensive fitted wardrobes. The good-sized family bathroom is tiled in black and white.
The 80ft long back garden has a lawn bordered with shrubs and trees of all kinds. There is a partly floored attic and outline planning permission to further extend to the rear.
