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Irish Times
4 days ago
- Lifestyle
- Irish Times
Elegant Rathgar five-bed with an Italian influence for €2.6m
Address : Foggia, 180 Orwell Road, Rathgar, Dublin 14 Price : €2,600,000 Agent : Sherry FitzGerald View this property on Foggia at 180 Orwell Road in Rathgar is named after the Italian province where Padre Pio resided until he died in 1968. The owners of the Dublin 14 house, who have lived there for nearly 50 years, have always felt an affinity to the saint. Originally built in 1949, number 180 has been extended by the owners and refurbished many times over. With a floor area of 262sq m (2,820sq ft), the house now has five bedrooms and four bathrooms. It is currently on the market with Sherry FitzGerald , seeking €2.6 million. Set well back off the road and entered via electronic gates, the detached house is as private as a city home can feel. The gravelled front driveway with mature trees and hedges all around has parking for at least four cars. The veranda-style porch has rustic sandstone tiles that look like they too have an Italian influence. To the right of the tiled hallway are the livingrooms. These consist of a drawingroom that runs into a family room, which in turn opens into the kitchen that has pocket doors to the diningroom. The owner says the rooms were deliberately laid out like this to ensure one room flows into the other, making the house conducive to entertaining. READ MORE 'Going back to the 1970s when we extended the house, it was unusual to opt for open plan,' she says. 'We decided to go with pocket doors so we can keep it all open or close rooms off when needed. We wanted the kids to be able to bring their friends around and have their own space. It's been a great party house, from Christmas to anniversaries and engagements to graduations.' Self-contained living space On the other side of the house through an inner hallway is a self-contained apartment of sorts. In a large, well-lit dual-aspect room there is a fitted kitchen with a dining and living area, and doors out to the garden. Off this is a bedroom and shower room. Upstairs there are four more double bedrooms. The principal bedroom comes with a walk-in wardrobe and en suite shower room. The main bathroom has a Jacuzzi bath and separate shower cubicle. Entrance hall Family room Kitchen Diningroom Family room looking out to garden Rear patio Garden The rear garden can be accessed from the kitchen or the family room. This south-facing oasis is both tranquil and thriving, with the only sounds coming from birdsong. Covering approximately 0.13 hectares (0.33 acres), it has a sandstone patio with a dining area that is set out beneath a covered pergola. A lush lawn is bordered by an abundance of trees, plants and flowers, with an archway leading to a shed and storage area. [ Villa-style Rathgar home combines period and modern style for €2.495m Opens in new window ] The exterior of the double-glazed windows and door frames are in the shade Card Room Green by Farrow and Ball and sit perfectly against the greens of the garden. Inside the house, the design is classical and the palette neutral so new owners could move in without too much fuss. It has a D1 Ber and uses gas-fired central heating. For the current owner, it will be difficult to say goodbye to Foggia, although she has nothing but good memories of her family's time there. 'It's a family home, so it's time for us to move on and allow another family to move in. I have to say, though, I'm still madly in love with it after all these years.'
Irish Times
08-05-2025
- Business
- Irish Times
Villa-style Rathgar home combines period and modern style for €2.495m
Address : 8 Garville Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6 Price : €2,495,000 Agent : Lisney Sotheby's International View this property on A couple with a penchant for revamping their homes moved into 8 Garville Road in Rathgar , Dublin 6 , six years ago. The double-fronted Victorian house – bought for €1.235 million in 2019, according to the Property Price Register – had been divided into separate living quarters and needed a complete makeover. With the help of 'a good builder', work began more or less right away, and now the villa-style house built in the 1830s is a larger property that combines period and modern styles with some clever design features. The owners, who've lived in neighbourhood since the 1990s, are rightsizing, they say, with plans to live nearby. Number 8 Garville Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6, a 287sq m (3,089sq ft) five-bedroom semidetached house, is for sale through Lisney Sotheby's International Realty for €2.495 million. It has a B1 Ber, with insulation including wraparound cladding at the back of the house and internal cladding at the front. It makes great use of windows and rooflights and even has a small internal courtyard off the main bedroom. The couple kept future-proofing in mind as they revamped their home: three of the five bedrooms and three bathrooms are on the bottom, garden-level floor – and there are no steps anywhere at this level, accessed through the door beside the front steps. Overall, upstairs and down, it's a bright spacious home furnished with an eclectic mix of modern and period furniture, and original art on walls everywhere. It's presented in meticulous condition. Entrance hall First-floor drawingroom Kitchen/dining/livingroom Ground-floor family room Study Steep granite steps lead up to a new pale-blue front door, opening into a front hall floored with oak parquet. A reception room running from the front to the back of the house opens on the left: it has its original sanded floor and original marble fireplace, restored ceiling coving, new period-style centre rose and tall double-glazed sash windows. A study on the right of the hall is painted a deep blue-grey. READ MORE A double bedroom off the hall behind the study has a centre rose and sash window overlooking the back garden. There's a smart shower room beside it and opposite, cupboards concealing a washer and dryer. A room at the very end of the hall with French doors opening into it is labelled a 'study/gym/bedroom 5' in the agents' brochure. It is bright, with nearly floor-to-ceiling corner windows and another tall narrow window on the other side of a low bookshelf. The real life of the house is downstairs, accessed either via the staircase from the top hall or from the door at the side of the front steps. A garage that was once converted into separate accommodation is now integrated with the house, providing useful extra space. All downstairs is floored with oak parquet. The large kitchen/living/diningroom stretching nearly the full width of the house at the back is airy and bright, with floor-to-ceiling sliding doors opening on to a large patio and rooflights over the kitchen and livingroom area. A large island, quartz-topped like the countertop, has a sink with Quooker tap, lots of storage and a heater at one end next to seating. A large pantry off it has a tiled floor, sink and lots of shelves. A door off the livingroom opens into a room fitted out as a child's bedroom, with a glass sliding door opening on to the back patio. There's an open utility area in a hall leading to the front of the house: a washer and dryer are concealed in floor-to-ceiling cupboards opposite a quartz-topped counter and sink. At the end of this hall at the front of the house are a smart family bathroom and another double bedroom. Internal courtyard Main bedroom Bathroom Garden The main bedroom is positioned between the two downstairs halls: a door from it opens into a good-sized double walk-in wardrobe and a door from here opens into a smart, fully-tiled bathroom. Most surprising is the small internal courtyard – French doors open from the bedroom into it. At the front of the house is a good-sized family room with a wood-burning stove. In all, there are four/five bedrooms and four bathrooms in the house: at Christmas, says one of the owners, it accommodated six adults and four children, with each family having their own space. The back garden has something for everyone. The pale porcelain-tiled patio is very much an outdoor room. A few steps up lead to a small lawn, a profusion of trees and bushes (including birch, holly, myrtle and a quince), a woodland area at the back, lots of decking and paths winding through it. The decking was a Covid lockdown project, says the owner: he kept going through the second lockdown and built a children's fort around a mature palm tree. There's an electric-car charging point and room to park two cars in the front garden, crucial on this narrow Dublin 6 street between Frankfort Avenue and Rathgar Road.
