Sugarloaf vista lights up lodge

The attraction of a house with a modest exterior in the countryside near Bray and Enniskerry is apparent when you open the front door: you can see straight through from the front hall to views of the little and big Sugarloaf from the conservatory- style livingroom at the back of the house.

Strathy Lodge, a 1960s house modernised and extended in the past decade or so, sits on 1.1 acres of open countryside on Ballyman Road, with panoramic views of the Wicklow hills and distant views of the sea. Visitors to the annual Enniskerry Victorian Field Day may know the location – the festival is held in a field beside Strathy Lodge. On this visit, two pheasants stroll lazily across the empty field.

The 237sq m (2,551sq ft) detached four/five-bedroom house is now for sale by private treaty through DNG for €945,000.

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The long lounge and livingroom are the heart of the house: a step down from the timber-floored lounge leads to the tile-floored livingroom which has a wood-burning stove and floor-to-ceiling windows at the end, framing the mountain views. Sliding glass doors on each side open onto the deck outside.

Glossy black Aga

Clear glass doors from the lounge open into an L-shaped kitchen/diningroom, where double doors from the dining space open onto the back deck. A small, neat kitchen has a modest timber-topped island unit and a glossy black Aga. A small pantry-cum-utility room opens off the kitchen.

A downstairs double bedroom at the opposite end of the front hall has French windows opening onto the deck outside, and an interconnecting door into a study that could be a bedroom. This opens into a downstairs bathroom.

This area could be reconfigured as one large en suite bedroom, possibly with a walk-in dressingroom.

The main bedroom upstairs has two windows that take full advantage of the property’s views and a very smart tiled en suite.

There is another double bedroom, a single bedroom and a toilet on this floor.

Outside, a large deck looks over the long back garden to those spectacular views. Next to the house there is a separate artist’s studio with a wall of glazed double doors, Velux windows and a wood-burning stove, with a small conservatory at the front. There’s more space for storage in a double garage. The garage and studio add 70sq m (753sq ft) of space.

There is plenty of room to park in the gravelled front drive of Strathy House, with large lawns on either side.

Strathy Lodge has mains water and a septic tank waste disposal system.

It is a short drive from Bray town and just down the road from the new Dun Laoghaire Golf Club, which relocated from Dun Laoghaire to Bray nearly a decade ago.