The design plan, scope and life lived in 25 Braemor Park are all in the entrance hallway.
A bright heart’s core of original timber doors, picture rails and wainscoting, it has a high ceiling and panel-enclosed staircase. St Mary’s had all of those things when it was first built too, by Brady Construction in 1937 during a surge in residential building in Dublin’s suburbs.
It was bought that same year by a Capt JJ O’Neill, he planted the gnarled and still fruitful pear trees in the south-westerly facing rear garden.
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In a reasonably long life, St Mary’s has only been lived in by two families; Capt O’Neill had been living there for 37 years when the second owner bought, in 1974, for £20,000 – about €25,000. It comes on the market now with an asking price of €1.4 million.
Houses on Braemor Park don’t often come for sale; agent Quillsen is looking after St Mary’s private treaty sale.
Good-sized and detached, it has five bedrooms, four reception rooms (including a conservatory and study) kitchen/breakfastroom, family bathroom and downstairs cloakroom.
The floor space covers 320sq m (3,400sq ft), and the 40sq m (433sq ft) garage could with ease become an integrated part of the house.
The rear garden measures 70ft x 60ft and there is parking for several cars to the front.
At 78 years old St Mary’s is in excellent shape, solidly stylish, well cared for and has most original features intact.
It needs some smartening up, décor-wise, and a new owner might want to add a bathroom and create a rear open plan space to incorporate the conservatory.
Or they might want to leave things as they are in a house of many rooms with timber panelled doors, leaded windows, picture rails and tiled fireplaces with timber mantels a motif throughout.
The generously sized hallway leads to many generously sized rooms.
Layout
There is a study to the front and a rear drawingroom has a wide bay window on to the conservatory and period fireplace with splayed-tile inset under a high, hardwood mantel.
The drawingroom, conveniently off the kitchen, has another period fireplace.
The L-shaped kitchen/ breakfastroom, also overlooking the conservatory, has a pleasantly functional style that could be revamped.
In the conservatory, which runs across the entire rear of the house, the flooring is parquet and wood-framed windows overlook the garden’s venerable pear trees, lawn, ivy and hedge clad walls.
A first floor landing corridor leads to the five bedrooms, four to the rear and one to the front.
Two have fireplaces, four have wash hand basins and all have picture rails. The main bedroom has built-in wardrobes and a rear bay window. The family bathroom and toilet are separate.
