BLACKROCK €2.2mFOR BUYERS with a feel for history, or celebrity even, and who are in the market for a build project in a south Dublin location with potential, Green Rushes, 16 Avoca Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin could be an opportunity.
The property, a 0.284-acre site with full planning permission for a three-bed bungalow, Green Rushes was once the home of Maurice Walsh, the Kerry writer who became part of film and literary history when director John Ford read his short story, The Quiet Man, in a February 1933 edition of the Saturday Evening Post.
Ford made the John Wayne/Maureen O'Hara film in 1952, by which time the story had earned its writer some $4,500 - enough, certainly, to buy Green Rushes when it was built in the early 1950s.
Walsh called the house after a 1934 publication containing his most famous story and lived there until his death in 1964.
Green Rushes, living up to its name, is surrounded by gardens filled with mature trees and shrubs. The house has some 186sq m (2,000sq ft) of space with five bedrooms, two reception rooms, conservatory and kitchen/ breakfastroom.
There is an annex too, with separate entrance, bedroom, livingroom, kitchen and bathroom.
The planning permission allows for this annex to be replaced with a separate, 121sq m (1,307sq ft), three-bed bungalow.
Agent Douglas Newman Good is looking after the private treaty sale and the asking price is €2.2m.
Green Rushes is a bright, many windowed home. A timber-floored livingroom overlooks the front gardens as well as Green Rushes' 55 metres of desirable road frontage onto Avoca Road and Grove Avenue. The conservatory opens into the rear gardens while the kitchen/diningroom runs the length of the house.
The five bedrooms, the main is en suite, are off the first floor landing, as is the family bathroom. The annex is to the side and has another bedroom.
