Quirky charm of a modern family home A period home overlooking a leafy park has been refurbished with a light modern touch

BRAY: €550,000: A HOUSE overlooking leafy People’s Park in Bray, Co Wicklow, is for sale through Douglas Newman Good for €550…

BRAY: €550,000:A HOUSE overlooking leafy People's Park in Bray, Co Wicklow, is for sale through Douglas Newman Good for €550,000. Number 1 Park Terrace, Lower Dargle Road is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house with 135sq m (1,450sq ft) of living space.

It was built in 1870 and although extended and refurbished, it has kept much of the character and charm of days gone by.

Case in point: 9ft high ceilings in most rooms, original sash windows, timber flooring and beautiful cornicing.

Park Terrace is a quiet section of the road directly overlooking the park.

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The house is quietly eccentric with a porch added to the front by a previous owner and rooms that are larger than one might expect on passing through the front garden’s wrought iron gate.

There are two reception rooms off the entrance hall that are fine – but also intimate – entertaining spaces.

The house does not have the darkly upholstered and heavily draped decoration that one often finds in such period homes, but instead holds a lighthearted arrangement of the eclectic furniture and treasured passions of its current owners, a couple and their two young children.

Off these rooms are a long study and a shower room. The current owners re-plumbed and rewired the entire house so everything runs smoothly. The large, recently extended, kitchen is to the rear of the house and has a smart new white kitchen with many windows looking over the large west-facing garden.

The garden has pedestrian access and is bound by lovely granite walls.

There is plenty of space to extend to the side of the house and an annex utility room.

Upstairs, there are three good-sized, very bright bedrooms and a large bathroom.

Views here look towards the trees of the park and the Dargle River in the distance.

The chief virtues of the house are its serene atmosphere and well ordered rooms that are sure to appeal to a family.

1 Park Terrace, Lower Dargle Road, Bray, Co Wicklow

Extended three-bed house with quirky details in walk-in condition

Agent:Douglas Newman Good