FOXROCK: €2.4MBAY HILL is a detached, bungalow-style house, with an added first floor, in a nicely matured Foxrock, Co Dublin enclave called Avonmore.
Built in the late 1970s, it has a lot going for it, not least its appeal as a family home. The layout puts emphasis on bright, comfortable living spaces filled with light and views of well-kept gardens as well as the Dublin mountains, from wide windows and a ceiling Velux.
A double garage converted into a self-contained “teenage den” is close enough for peace of mind but distant enough to allow co-habiting generations some lifestyle freedoms.
None of this, nor the location, comes cheap and Bay Hill, number 3 Avonmore, is for sale by private treaty through Sherry FitzGerald for €2.4 million.
The 258sq m (2,780sq ft) house has four bedrooms, a study, two reception rooms and kitchen/ breakfastroom. The 36sq m (393sq ft) den, which could convert to a home office, has an open-plan livingroom/kitchen, shower room and single garage.
Bay Hill’s happy integration with its 0.25 acres of garden is apparent from the entrance hallway, where a glass end-wall frames a courtyard with water-feature.
The living spaces at this level are at one side of the hallway, with bedrooms off a corridor at the other.
Ground floor rooms have Junckers oak flooring; those in the added first floor are of ash. Wall colours everywhere are pale, mostly creamy coloured. A wide curve of windows in the livingroom/diningroom overlooks the rear patio and south-west facing garden. Along with a pair of ceiling Velux windows, they throw light onto a cream and terracotta coloured Spanish marble fireplace. The family room has French windows overlooking the garden and leads directly to the kitchen/breakfastroom. Designed by John Daly, the fittings here are of French oak with worktops of polished black granite. Windows in the main, en suite bedroom – an entire wall of them – overlook the front garden. This room has a dressingroom large enough to make another bedroom.
On the first floor, created when the vendors removed the roof and raised the pitch, are two bedrooms and a bathroom.
Bay Hill, 3 Avonmore, off Leopardstown Road, Foxrock, Dublin 18
Detached bungalow-style house with added first floor on 0.25 acres of gardens. There are views of the gardens from the house and a 36sq m (393sq ft) garage converted into a teenage den.
Agent:Sherry FitzGerald
