Solid 1920s home in Glenageary with garden site

A detached house on one of Glenageary’s loveliest roads, extended 16 years ago by it owners and in pristine condition, stands on one-third of an acre - and comes with potential.

There’s space to extend again as well as planning permission for a bungalow at the bottom of the long rear garden.

Roselea, 16 Marlborough Road, Glenageary, Co Dublin, a 228sq m (2,455sq ft) four-bedroom house, is for sale by private treaty through Sherry FitzGerald for €1.975 million.

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A mix of imposing period redbricks and houses built more recently, most on large private grounds, line Marlborough Road. It leads up from Glenageary Dart station, curving around on to Adelaide Road. Roselea is one of those closest to the Dart.

Built in the 1920s, it stands well back from the road: a gravelled front garden has room for parking up to half a dozen cars. Inside has been designed as a great party house, with rooms flowing into each other.

Glazed double doors open off the hall into the drawingroom at the front, with more glazed double doors at the end of the room open into the extended open plan living/ kitchen/dining area that stretches across the back of the house.

Decoration

The décor throughout is warm and bright, with pale walls, recessed lighting and polished oak floors.

The drawingroom has a cream polished granite fireplace surround and two windows, one a large bay, looking over the front garden. The livingroom area off the kitchen/ dining space is cosy, with a wood-burning stove.

The wide kitchen/ diningroom is a very bright space. A large dining table stands in a deep box bay window overlooking the back garden; smart blue-and-white tiles over the kitchen counters and a navy blue Rangemaster add a splash of colour to cream units. There’s a deep Velux window over an island unit with polished granite top.

Dressingroom

Double doors open on to the back lawn from the kitchen end of the space, and more doors open from the diningroom on to a sheltered patio at the side of the house.

Downstairs rooms also include a utility room and a shower-room off the kitchen and a good-sized familyroom to the left of the hall at the front of the house. There is also a garage with double doors to the front garden.

Upstairs there are four bedrooms – three doubles and one single.

The main bedroom has a walk-in dressingroom, created from what used to be a fifth bedroom.

The 108ft long manicured back lawn is fringed by mature trees and bushes.

Planning

The owners have planning permission – with four years to run – to build a 154sq m (1,657sq ft) bungalow in the back garden: this would be accessed from Beeches Park, a small cul-de-sac off Station Road that runs behind the houses on Marlborough Road.