Coast Road: €6.5mTwo houses for sale in Malahide are in neighbourhood where homes rarely come to the market, write Rose Doyleand Property Editor Orna Mulcahy

One of the charms of Ashroe, a dormer bungalow on the Coast Road, Malahide, is its array of front-facing picture windows, all framing wide and wonderful views of Lambay Island, Donabate's beach, the Island Golf links and, in the distance, the rolling pastures of Co Meath.

Set serenely back behind a hedged garden, Ashroe's location on the older section of the Coast Road - where houses rarely come onto the market - will attract buying interest.

The potential of its detached 0.9acre (0.363 hectare) site and large, south-facing garden will not go unnoticed by developers either.

Ashroe comes on the market with a price of €6.5m. The private treaty sale is being looked after by Sherry FitzGerald Blanc.

The most recent sale on this stretch of road was in 2004 when a house on a much smaller site sold for more than €2m.

Ashroe has two-storeys and a lot of comfortable, good-sized family style rooms over its 297sq m (3,196sq ft) of floor space.

There are five bedrooms (several en suite), four reception rooms and a large kitchen/breakfastroom.

The rear gardens have a hard tennis court, fish pond, apple trees and, at the far end, a secret garden which has chestnut and other tall, old trees preserving privacy.

Built in the early 1940s as a country-style bungalow, an early photograph of Ashroe shows it surrounded by green spaces with, nearby, a row of the small cottages which then lined the old Coast Road.

Additions over the years have given the house a pleasant, rambling style. The first floor has has just two rooms: a front-facing study/drawingroom with superb sea views and an L-shaped en suite main bedroom which makes the most of both front and rear views.

The other four bedrooms, all of a good size, are on the ground floor, two of them accessed through the long, charmingly formal, old-style sitting/diningroom. The latter was probably part of the original house and its warm toned walls work well with the highly ornate, carved wood period fireplace.

The kitchen/breakfast-room is a well laid-out, large and pleasantly light filled space with wooden fittings in the working kitchen area and maple flooring in the breakfasting area.

It leads on the one side into a comfortable TV room, on the other to a sunroom, both of which have sliding patio doors to the garden.