Killiney Victorian home down the road from Bono for €1.75m

The front door at the side of Reenroe opens into a conservatory-style lobby, then into the front hall, both timber-floored. The imposing drawingroom is on the left; painted terracotta, it has handsome cornicing painted white and gold. One of the owners painted the egg-shaped parts of the cornice gold herself some years ago, “using a nail polish brush and gilt”. There’s a gilt-framed mirror over a wide black marble mantelpiece and an open fire.

On the other side of the hall is a timber-floored diningroom, and through studded double doors a kitchen cum breakfastroom, which is modest-sized with a vivid red wall, Velux window and modern timber units. It has a quarry-tiled floor and glazed double doors to the front garden. There’s a toilet and a utility room off it.A steep spiral staircase in the front hall leads down to the garden level. The hall here has a tiled floor and a wall of jazzy wallpaper.

Upstairs, there’s a single bedroom on the return, used now as an office. There are two double bedrooms on the first floor, with another attic room up a few stairs from the top landing, and a family bathroom. The main bedroom looks over the garden to the sea; you can see Bray Head to the right, a sliver of Dalkey Island past trees on the left and glimpse the rooftop of the lavish new property built on the site of the former Canadian embassy residence on Strathmore Road.

Outside, the gardens are steeply tiered and rich with trees, bushes and plants, including rhododendron and hydrangeas, and the lawns are divided by hedges and a series of steps lead down and around the garden. A gate at the bottom opens on Strathmore Avenue, the road linking Killiney Hill Road to Vico Road.

There’s good room to park in the paved front of the house, where the owner has created an attractive display of flowers at the foot of a tall tree.

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