Dalkey/€3.25m:A detached period house near the Dart and fashionable Dalkey village has space to extend, writes Property Editor Orna Mulcahy
A five-bedroom house in Dalkey with space for children, cars and boats is sure to attract busy viewings in the weeks ahead. The Edwardian house on half an acre of grounds at Ardeevin Road has come on the market for only the third time in its 100-year history.
Ard Na Greine, a detached house, looks out to sea over the rooftops of Dalkey and the railway line and has great gardens front and back with scope to extend or even remodel.
It's a popular neighbourhood for the upwardly mobile, and several houses nearby are being pulled apart and rebuilt on a far more lavish scale.
Priced at €3.25 million through Sherry FitzGerald, Ard na Greine needs work inside, but it's a charming home with big airy reception rooms to the front, a fine hallway with tall windows taking in the view, and a comfortable eat-in kitchen at the back, with sliding doors to a suntrap patio.
The house has been home for the last 35 years to Richard Clark, one of the former owners of the Richard Alan boutique on Grafton Street and the house is full of reminders of the glory days of Irish fashion - with framed photographs and designer labels in the hallway, and a store room full of boxed fashion photographs.
There is 252sq m (2,712sq ft) in all, including handsome interconnecting reception rooms, and a pretty first floor bedroom with a door leading out to a long back garden that slopes gently upwards and has access to a pedestrian laneway.
