Smart three-bed mews in heart of Dalkey

A detached stone-fronted house in a small mews development of four houses on the edge of Dalkey village in Co Dublin, has been well maintained by its owners, who moved in when the scheme was built around 1997.

They paid a little more than the €200,000 asking price. They added a conservatory and updated it over the years, adding smart features like upright radiators and upgrading bathrooms.

Number 3 Church Hill Mews, a 116.5sq m (1,254sq ft) three-bedroom house just off Church Road in Dalkey, is for sale by private treaty for €825,000 through Sherry FitzGerald.

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The house is bright, airy and largely open-plan downstairs with a roomy livingroom with French doors opening into the kitchen/diningroom and glazed patio doors opening on to the back garden. It has an open fireplace with a slate hearth and timber mantel and a polished hardwood floor.

The front hall, kitchen/ diningroom and conservatory are all floored with large high-gloss porcelain tiles. The kitchen, at the front of the house, is a neat space with a partly-tiled wall, well-cared for hardwood countertops, and a Smeg oven and fridge which are included in the sale. The good-sized dining area opens into the circular conservatory.

A downstairs toilet has been adapted to neatly accommodate a washing machine and a dryer which are cleverly concealed under the sink.

Upstairs, there are three medium-sized double bedrooms and the family bathroom. The main bedroom has a fully-tiled en suite shower room off it. The family bathroom is equally contemporary, with large stone tiles on floor and walls and a freestanding bath.

The sheltered back garden is like another downstairs room: it has a decked area directly outside the house, a sandstone patio and tall raised boxed beds bordering the sides. There is a garden shed and a car port at the side of the house. With plenty of space for parking on the residents’ private road, there’s no parking charges for visitors – quite a surprise on a road just a few minutes’ walk from Dalkey’s main street.