Lough on to this quiet little nest
Because of its location, and perhaps because the signs have gone up already, there’s been plenty of interest in this detached house on the Togher Road.
One of only four houses in a row, the bungalows are set well back from the road and you could miss them on a cursory drive by.
With their double valleys and pretty porch running between two bays, these houses have a touch of the country in the heart of the city.
You can walk to town from here, jog around the Lough after work and pick up the shopping, a video and even a Chinese takeaway, just by crossing the road.
Step inside Na Géanna Fiáine and you can forget the outside world. The house has great privacy for a built up area, particularly at the back where an immaculately landscaped area offers a blend of garden and yard in a low-maintenance combo.
While many generations may have grown up in this house, the way it is now is ideal for a young couple or a very nuclear family.
Yes, it has three bedrooms and three living rooms, but for a couple, or single person, it has that perfect blend of space and compactness that allows for entertaining and guests. But, at the same time, it is not too big. at the same time.
The home of an architectural conserver, the house has had its period touches skilfully restored, but without being a museum piece. Lots of waxed pine and a magpie blend of furniture add to the overall look.
The box bays and sash windows are gleaming, but at the rear easy-keep PVC has been used. Here, long narrow windows make the most of the Irish sun and the house is very bright because it has windows on all sides.
A long entrance hallway, tiled to match the period, runs through the middle of the house and neatly separates the living from the bedroom space.
All the 1930’s doors have been carefully stripped and waxed and the old stained glass on the entrance doorway is mirrored in the modern stained glass at the end of the hallway, the vendor’s own work.
To the left is the main living room, a good-sized space 12’ by 16’ with polished floor boards and a 1930s fireplace. Behind it is the dining room, also with fireplace and a window facing west.
Big pine double doors lead onto the kitchen, which while it isn’t a gleaming and expensive off the peg number, is big enough to have a breakfast bar and an L-shaped bank of units painted in off-white.
A half-door gives onto the patio and garden area and there’s access at one side to the garage, which has plenty of storage space.
Here, new owners could knock this and create a lean-to conservatory which would get the western sun as there is plenty more storage space in the floored attic.
The bedrooms are all good doubles and the master is furnished with an antique French bed and wardrobe. The old tiled fireplace still sites in the corner.
The second bedroom, mid-way between back and front, appears even larger and has a big, iron bedstead with hand crocheted throw. A window here looks east.
The last bedroom is now a study with a capacious desk, numerous storage units and access to the attic via a pull-down ladder.
The bathroom, with the original circular iron bath (and specially imported shower rail), has a high-level cistern and is a punctuation mark at the end of the long hallway.
The house has an ideal orientation, in that the sun moves from the back in late afternoon, giving sunlight to the living rooms.
Well-finished but with the patina of age, the property is in the hands of Paul Reid of Sherry FitzGerald.
He’s given it a guide price of 320,000, but with viewings booked in heavily at the moment, this is likely to rise with bidding.
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