Master of the mount
The headline-making 800-house scheme, modelled around a village concept with shops, bar, restaurant and a huge variety of house styles, is over half-way through development, with the entry point on Clarke's Hill already well matured just two years down the road.
Now certain to cause a flurry is the sale of one of the biggest, and possibly the very best house, in the whole development.
On the market with Paul Reid of Sherry FitzGerald, who reckons that it is indeed the best house in the scheme, this E750,000-plus home is going to make waves of curiosity and longing, with trading up enquires expected from within Mount Oval itself (a smaller type 'B' house, a former show unit, sold here in the last few weeks for E670,000.)
No 76 is the first house on the right driving into the development, on without doubt the largest site in Mount Oval Village, up to one-third of an acre in size. It is fully walled-in and has about the most private of all the gardens as well.
It is in the Dewberry section of the O'Flynn Construction development, and of the 'A' type, of which only about a dozen were built and which sold off the plans.
Most of the buyers of the already quite large A-types "went large" on their purchases, extending up into the attic spaces as well, and this is what the buyers of No 76 did when, coming down from Dublin, they got offered the house on a cancellation.
As a consequence, this house is now a sizeable 3,200 sq ft home, with space over three levels, coming with six bedrooms and great open and usable living space with landscaped gardens galore.
It has been done internally to an unstinting specification (the vendors reckon they spent 100,000 over the initial purchase price, including extension into the attic) with buffed limestone floors in the hall and kitchen. The kitchen and separate large utility have maple units with granite worktops and De Dietrich appliances, and there's a couple of steps down to a big family room, sectioned off from the kitchen/dining space by wrought iron railings. Other rooms include a formal dining room to the front of the house, and a front-to-back sitting room, measuring 24' by 14', with solid wood floor, pewter-style metal fireplace and French doors to the huge rear patio and landscaped gardens.
Two of the four first floor bedrooms have en suite bathrooms and a third was plumbed for one but the space was conceded to the bedroom and a landing storage area instead.
The top floor has two more large bedrooms, one of which has a study room off it (a nanny flat?), landing and good bright bathroom.
