Foxrock: €6mTwo 1930s houses with big gardens on Torquay Road, Foxrock, catch the extravagantly leafy mood of the Dublin 18 suburb. Rose Doylereports

Clonmore, behind high hedges and old trees on Torquay Road, is a two-storey, ivy-clad typical 1930s house. Built in the first year of the decade by William C Bowen, it's a wide house with lots of windows, a rambling interior style and a lush 0.83 acres surrounding it.

The vendors have lived in Clonmore since 1972 when they bought it for £20,000 - and spent a further £20,000 on renovations. Improvements then, and later, have kept faith with the character of the house so that original doors, knobs, tiling, cornicing, arches and many windows are all intact. Clonmore has some 325sq m (3,500sq ft) of floor space in which there are five bedrooms, four reception rooms and a kitchen/breakfastroom.

A glass covered passageway along the side of the house doubles as a utility/plant potting space and leads into a garage converted into a large games' room.

Clonmore has an asking price of €6 million and Sherry FitzGerald is looking after the private treaty sale. It's hard not to be admiringly aware of the gardens, visible from most rooms and separated from Leopardstown Racecourse by a granite wall to the rear; high trees keep the action out of view.

There are wooded walks, a disused tennis court built over what was once part of the Harcourt Street railway line and, to the side of the house, the last trees of a one-time orchard. Subject to planning permission, there is potential to build a second house.

Original black and white tiles in the entrance hallway catch the 1930s mood as do a pair of arches framing both the rear section of the house and views of the wide, very green lawn.

At the rear are two bay windows, one of them overlooking the gardens from the main reception room - which also has an original Adams fireplace with a gas fire inset, cornicing and a picture rail. A one-time maid's kitchen is now a family room with open fireplace and parquet flooring. The kitchen / breakfastroom, which was refurbished seven years ago, has an arch dividing working and dining areas. In the cork-floored breakfastroom, there is window seating set into the second bay window. The main bedroom has an en suite shower/dressing room and each of the other, good-sized, bedrooms have basins.