Riverside Lodge has a name that lives up to its setting. The four-bedroom house at Strawberry Beds in Dublin 20 sits on the Liffey, with 980m (3,200ft) of frontage and its own jetty for fishing and boating.
It's new to the market this week through Sherry FitzGerald with an asking price of €800,000.
The Wind in the Willows has nothing on this stretch of woodland and water which is five miles from O'Connell Bridge but a world away. Swans used to wander up the lawn to the house and step into the conservatory, says owner Evelyn Roe, who is selling the house after 37 years. She and her late husband Jim loved the peace and seclusion of the property, going so far as to buy an extra field from a local man, a Mr Lanigan, father-in-law of Sinn Féin politican Mary Lou McDonald.
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Riverside Lodge now sits on a linear site of more than two acres in a high-amenity green belt where development is restricted. The property is located next to the National Canoe Centre.
The house is a good-sized bungalow of 152sq m ( 1,636sq ft) that could do with some refurbishment. The layout includes a large split-level livingrom, a kitchen-cum-diningroom and that conservatory which has dripping vines planted over 30 years ago by the Roes when they could not afford curtains for the glass walls.
Riverside Lodge is situated not far from the Knockmaroon Hill end of the Strawberry Beds, close to Mount Sackville School and Castleknock College. The villages of Castleknock, Chapelizod and Lucan are easily reached.
