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Irish Times
5 days ago
- Business
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Glenageary Victorian five-bed rich in period detail for €2.85m
Address : 5 Arkendale Road, Glenageary, Co Dublin Price : €2,850,000 Agent : DNG A large redbrick Victorian house in Glenageary , Co Dublin, 5 Arkendale Road is truly a family house: it's where Nollaig Greene grew up, where she and her husband Ken raised their three children and where a daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter lived with them for three years until recently. Now, after nearly 60 years, this tall 348sq m (3,745sq ft) two-storey, over-ground-level five-bedroom house, is for sale: DNG is asking €2.85 million for the semidetached house halfway down this quiet cul-de-sac off Castlepark Road. The house, built in 1884, has been well cared for, with rich original plasterwork in the hall and main reception rooms, and modernised over the years. But it is also somewhat dated, and new owners will likely want to revamp it again. If Nollaig were staying in the house, she would concentrate on improving its E1 Ber rating with an energy upgrade. What she likes most about her home – which her parents bought when she was six – is the space, light (the house has many tall sash windows) and the location, a short walk to Glenageary Dart station, Killiney Hill and the sea, of which there are views from upstairs windows. And of course, the large back garden, where she has created a 'white garden' filled with lilies, roses and peonies. The Arkendale houses had generous back gardens and in 1998, Nollaig and Ken built a house at the bottom of their original garden, before swapping places with her parents and moving back into the main house. Number 5A Arkendale Road, sold in 2020 for €910,000, is tucked away behind tall walls down a long gravelled driveway. READ MORE Front garden and driveway Entrance hall Steep granite steps lead up to the front door of number 5, opening into a short front hall with ornate ceiling plasterwork. An original door with coloured glass opens into a hall, off which are four rooms: the diningroom, drawingroom, study and an upstairs kitchen. The diningroom and drawingroom are formal rooms, furnished in mainly period style. But they're both rooms the family uses, 'eating breakfast, lunch and dinner in the diningroom' when their daughter's family shared the house. And during Covid, Nollaig moved her desk near to a window in the drawingroom to take advantage of light flooding in. The diningroom at the front of the house has ornate ceiling plasterwork, centre rose, a black marble open fireplace and a deep bay with three windows looking over the front garden. Diningroom The drawingroom, at the back of the house, has two tall windows overlooking the back garden, slightly less ornate plasterwork, centre rose and a white marble fireplace. Drawingroom The study, at the front of the house, is a good size. The upstairs kitchen is a legacy of earlier days when the main kitchen was located here and was useful when her daughter lived with them, says Nollaig. Study Stairs beside an exposed brick wall lead down to garden level, where a large kitchen/breakfastroom and family room are linked by a very wide arch. Downstairs hall An Aga sits in the chimneybreast of the kitchen/breakfastroom opposite an island and a large dining table. There are window seats below two tall windows looking into the back garden. The family room at the front of the house has a deep bay with three windows, like the diningroom on the floor above, an open fireplace and an exposed brick wall. Kitchen Family room Other rooms at this level include a utility room, a room well equipped as a gym, a downstairs shower room and a storage room under the front steps – a space owners of some Victorian houses have turned into a wine cellar. There is a side entrance into the downstairs hall, and, at the end of the hall, sliding glass doors opening into the back garden. Upstairs, past a landing with a tall arched window, there are five bedrooms on the top floor and a family bathroom. This is painted a vivid yellow and has a traditional clawfoot bath and a shower. The large main bedroom has a deep three-window bay with views over trees and houses across the sea to Howth, and a tiled en suite shower room. A sixth bedroom could be created downstairs, perhaps in the garden-level gym or ground floor kitchen or study. Main bedroom Family bathroom View towards Howth from upstairs Number 5 stands on 0.2 acres and has a 25m (82ft) back garden. Steps lead up from a patio stretching across the back of the house to a glossy green lawn with a pear tree near its centre. The garden, where one of the daughters got married, is private, with trees and mature planting, including the white flowers, and a herb garden in a trug. There's lots of room to park in the landscaped front garden. Rear garden Glenageary Dart station is a five- to 10-minute walk via a pedestrian lane at the end of the cul-de-sac leading to the Metals – the walkway that runs behind the Arkendale houses.
Irish Times
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Look inside: Former RTÉ presenter's Glenageary home with French countryside-style garden for €2.25m
Address : 5 Rus-In-Urbe, Glenageary Road Lower, Glenageary, Co Dublin Price : €2,250,000 Agent : Sherry FitzGerald View this property on The former broadcaster Thelma Mansfield has lived in this lovely Georgian family home for the past 40 years, raising a family with her late husband, the photographer John Morris. Rus-in-Urbe, the bespoke group of six houses of which Mansfield's home is number 5, is well named: it's a piece of the French countryside in the heart of bustling Dún Laoghaire , set 100ft back from Glenageary Road , with beautifully landscaped gardens. Mansfield is a keen gardener, and she has created wonderful gardens to the front and back, filled with colourful agapanthus, wisteria, olive trees and a gorgeous fig tree. Since retiring from RTÉ in the late 1990s, Mansfield has pursued her lifelong passion for painting, which began when she won the Texaco children's art competition as a child. At the end of the back garden of her home is an original coach house which she currently uses as her artist's studio. It has a wood-burning stove, a shower room and vehicular access to the side lane. On the beautiful day when we visited the house, the sun was streaming in to the back garden, illuminating the works-in-progress on the easels and the dabs of paint on the palettes. Artist and former RTÉ presenter Thelma Mansfield and her dog, Puffin. Photograph: Rod Morris Entrance hall Drawingroom Kitchen Livingroom Diningroom Number 5 Rus-in-Urbe has a well-loved look about it – parts of the house would benefit from a refresh, but overall it exudes country charm, like visiting an old French farmhouse. Mansfield says it's been a happy house over the past four decades, but now she feels it's time to look for somewhere smaller and more manageable, and allow a new family to enjoy the wonders of country living in the suburbs that this fine five-bedroomed semidetached period house has to offer. The property measures a roomy 235sq m (2,530sq ft), is Ber-exempt and is for sale through Sherry FitzGerald seeking €2.25 million. READ MORE Number 5 is set well back from Glenageary Road Lower, with a 100ft-long garden that has been lovingly cultivated over the years. During Covid, says Mansfield, she would sit out in the front, sipping her coffee and greeting her neighbours from a safe distance. A fanlight and sidelights flank the front door, bringing light into the large entrance hall. The drawingroom to the left has two sash windows with working shutters, and folding doors lead in to the diningroom. Both these rooms have detailed timber fireplaces, and the intricate ceiling coving and centre roses are present and correct in the hall, drawingroom and diningroom. French doors lead out from the diningroom to a rear courtyard, which runs alongside the kitchen and is perfectly positioned for al-fresco dining on a summer's evening. Off the hallway is a guest WC, with a lovely arched window and fitted bookshelves filled with antique books; off the lobby at the end of the entrance hall is a fully tiled wet room with a heated towel rail. The country-style kitchen is laid with original quarry tile floors and fitted with bespoke cabinetry painted in a Farrow & Ball Hardwicke White. It's a little slab of Provence in Dún Laoghaire, and it's clear that this is the social hub of the house. Mansfield brews up a coffee while I ask her about her career in broadcasting. When she was called in for an interview with RTÉ in 1965, she was just 16, she tells me. 'I didn't even know what a continuity announcer was,' she says. She became a household name in the 1980s and 1990s as the co-host of Live at 3, with the late Derek Davis. These days, painting has become her full-time job, and the rooms in her Glenageary home display many of her paintings, along with the photographic work of her late husband, and the antique box cameras he collected. Mansfield has exhibited her vibrant paintings in several galleries, and finds inspiration in the views over Dublin Bay from Dún Laoghaire and the views over Galway Bay from Spiddal, where she spends a lot of time. Looking out to rear garden from diningroom Rear garden Rear garden At the back of the kitchen is a bright garden room with Velux roof lights and French doors out to the rear garden. A utility room to the side houses the gas boiler and is plumbed for a washing machine. The back garden is beautifully landscaped with feature topiary, including a yew tree trimmed into a spiral. There's a raised goldfish pond with a water feature and several relaxation areas to maximise the sunlight coming in from the south and west. On this lovely May day, it feels like we've been whisked to the south of France. Upstairs the gallery landing gives an impressive view over the entrance hall. Overlooking the front garden is the large main bedroom, with two picture windows with working shutters, ceiling coving and a centre rose. It has a large en suite with a stained-glass window and slipper bath. Also overlooking the front is a smaller bedroom, with sash window with working shutters, ceiling coving and a centre rose. A third bedroom has a picture window with working shutters overlooking the back garden. Towards the back of the house, overlooking the courtyard, are two more bedrooms, plus a bathroom with step-in bath with a tiled surround. The upstairs layout could work well for a small family, with the parents and the kids in the front section, and the back section reserved for guests. Mansfield can tell when a painting looks right 'when my eye approves', and her visual instinct is plain to see in this fine family home. Your eye will definitely approve.
