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One of the finest period homes in Dublin could be yours for €4.5 million
It’s even got an outside kitchen for al fresco cooking.
THE LUXURY OF A Georgian country home is often confined to the countryside. It’s a particularly rare opportunity to live in one that is only fifteen minutes from the city centre.
Originally built in 1820 as a dower house (a home for the widow of an estate owner after their heir takes over the main house) for nearby Frascati House, the five-bedroom home lies on half an acre of beautiful gardens in Blackrock.
It’s on sale for €4.5 million and has been called ‘one of the finest period houses in Dublin’.
Approached by electric gates, outside is a manicured rolling lawn and a gravelled car parking area for several cars. Inside, the original hall door opens to a polished timber floor, detailed cornice and a centre rose on the ceiling and timber panelling.
The home features two drawing rooms – one with a carved timber mantelpiece, ceiling cornice and another that features an ornate marble fireplace; both with a polished timber floor.
The open-plan kitchen, breakfast and family room features a polished timber floor, beamed ceiling, detailed plasterwork and ornate architrave, painted kitchen units including two large islands, marble work tops, six ovens and French doors to the garden.
The master bedroom has an Adam style fireplace with a gas fire and automated concealed TV unit, along with three sash windows with shutters and window seats, a radiator cabinet and a barrel ceiling.
The master suite also includes a dressing room, wall-to-wall bespoke inlaid cabinets and drawers (originally from Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland) with his and hers vanity unit, concealed trouser press, two large mirrors and a Brazilian hardwood floor.
The country house has five en-suites – the one seen above features a marble bath, a matching marble wash hand basin and vanity unit, a stand in shower, WC and marble tiled walls and floor.
In the gardens, ducks and heron roam free while the outdoor kitchen and barbeque area features scented wisteria.
Eagle Lodge, Sydney Avenue, Blackrock, Co. Dublin is on sale for €4.5 million from Sherry Fitzgerald via Daft.ie.
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