Dublin 6: €1mOnce a coach-house to a large home on Orwell Park, 1 Mill Close off Orwell Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6 has been reconstructed by its presents owners in an 11-year labour of love - and good taste.
Currently comprising two reception rooms, four bedrooms, bathroom and shower room, the property will be auctioned on October 3rd with Douglas Newman Good guiding €1 million.
Mill Close is situated beside the Dodder Bridge on Orwell Road with parkland and a river path on its doorstep. The coach-house dates from 1912 and, when the present owners bought the property in 1995, they embarked on a complete remodelling, including fitting new floors, staircase, kitchen and shower rooms. Interior panelled doors and antique radiators are among the period fittings which have been sourced and reclaimed from old institutions. The attention to detail throughout is exemplary, and the result is a charming and unusual home.
The hall door opens into the diningroom with lounge and kitchen on either side. The diningroom has a red deal timber floor, Tasse solid fuel stove, stairs rising to first floor and door to rear garden courtyard.
The lounge is a lovely room lit by large Georgian-style windows with timber floor, in the corner is an art deco cast-iron fireplace with copper hood, with plenty of space around it for easy and formal furniture. Outfitted in pine, the kitchen has glazed wall cupboards, a breakfast area and is floored in red and black quarry tiles.
A striking staircase leads to a good-sized first floor. All four bedrooms have period timber flooring and two have large Velux windows. The main bedroom is decorated in pale shades with soft olive green trim, its front-facing windows giving leafy and riverside views. The en suite bath room, which picks up the olive green theme in its decoration, has a bath and Mira shower in white. A separate shower room floored in oak has part timber panelled walls, and a shower.
A wide drive leads in to the house whose orientation offers a recessed sun trap to the side of the front door. There is off-street parking and a side passage to the rear of the house, where a courtyard affords a sunny privacy.
