DUBLIN 4 - €4.5M:A detached 1950s house near to schools and shops, with a vast, serene garden, is being put up for auction, so confident is the sales agent in its appeal, wrties Evlín Roden
IT'S A BRAVE move to put a house to auction in the current climate, but Tom Day of Lisney is confident that 12-14 Nutley Road in Donnybrook will rise to the occasion.
A large detached 1950s house on a double site of nearly half an acre with splendid gardens offers lots of potential for family living. It goes to auction on October 2nd with an AMV of €4.5 million.
With a floor area of 281sq m (3,032sq ft) and six bedrooms, the house has been lived in by one owner since it was built 55 years ago, when its interior layout and decoration would have been the smartest, most up-to-date look on the block.
The house is laid out horizontally over two levels with elegant drawingroom, interconnecting diningroom, kitchen and circular breakfast room situated along the back to take advantage of the south facing garden. The terrace in front of these has been glassed in to form a sunroom and there is a long garden room to the side.
The front of the house is taken up with two bedrooms, a bathroom, various offices and the hall with elaborate wrought iron balustrade to the staircase.
Upstairs there are four more bedrooms, one with en suite bathroom and dressingroom, study and another bathroom, wc and closet area.
All of this adds up to a lot of space which new owners may wish to reconfigure to suit contemporary living, perhaps by opening up the back rooms to take more advantage of the garden, enlarging the kitchens or putting in contemporary windows throughout.
There are lovely things to keep such as the beautiful chimney surround in the drawingroom with marble intaglio of fruit and ribbons, and the four door, white Aga in the kitchen. The elegance of drawingroom and diningroom has been achieved by colour as well as by good furnishings, with the former painted soft sage and the latter in muted heather.
The garden room is a testament to modern taste of the time and contains black leather and chrome chairs and table against a backdrop of trailing vines and greenery, finished with a moss green carpet.
For a house that is so near to Donnybrook, UCD (University College Dublin), schools, churches, shopping and transport links, the privacy of the garden is wonderful.
A wide expanse of perfectly maintained lawn stretches away to a boundary of large trees and flowering shrubs on three sides.
The front has a double garage, two sets of electronic gates, a semi circular lawn and neatly clipped hedge behind a brick wall topped with iron rails.
12 Nutley Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4
The six-bedroom house is on two storey and laid out in a horizontal plan typical of its times. It has been lived in by the same person who bought it new 55 years ago
Agent: Lisney
