A landmark gate lodge in a sylvan setting in Dublin 9 has been upgraded, extended, and given a name change.
This Griffith Avenue landmark gate lodge has been given a full-scale makeover.
When it last came to market, it had been part of the Marino Institute.
Built as the gatekeeper's lodge, it had been lived in by the same family since its construction.
Boasting period features, its other key selling features included its size, which measured about 115 square metres and its quarter-acre garden.
Address: St Mary's Gate Lodge, 5B Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 AE81
Asking price: €1.6 million
Agent: Sherry FitzGerald Drumcondra
Originally known as Marino Gate Lodge, it was constructed in 1900 after the Christian Brothers took over the 400-acre Charlemount Estate in the 1890s.
The order provided some of those lands for the building of the Marino Housing Estate.
In the 1980s, the entrance to the institute was moved, leaving the lodge sitting on its own large site - it extended to about 32 metres long and was 25 metres wide.
In 2019, when it came to market in November, it needed modernisation and was seeking €530,000.
It sold in jig time for €641,710, according to the property price register.
The lodge has been extensively upgraded, remodelled and agrandised.
It is now a large three-bedroom, four-bathroom residence, complete with attic rooms, and extends to 145 square metres.
Now C1 BER-rated, the property opens into a hall where there is bespoke timber panelling by Clara Joinery.
The same firm also did all the period-style timber sash windows and panelling throughout.
A marble tiled floor underfoot is warmed by underfloor heating, as is the whole house.
The living room is to the left.
The dual aspect space has lovely fenestration, surrounding window boxes and architraving, along with an open hearth.
The rest of the original property comprises three good-sized double bedrooms.
The two at the back are ensuite with the one to the left opening out to the garden.
The owners extended up into the attic, where there are now two large attic rooms with rooflights and an ensuite shower room off the larger of these two spaces.
A tri-aspect extension at the back opens directly out to the quarter of an acre of private grounds that are one of this home’s key selling features.
The large kitchen, living room cum diner features period-style banks of multi-pane sash windows.
The in-frame kitchen is a bespoke design by Neptune and features quartz countertops supplied by Miller Brothers.
Bounded by mature trees, some of which line Griffith Avenue, which is the property’s postal address, but the house is situated around the corner from the Marino end of this sylvan street.
The property, which first came to the market last October seeking €1.75 million, offers development potential, with the possibility of constructing additional residential units accessed via Glandore Road, subject to planning permission.
The asking price has been reduced.
Agents Sherry FitzGerald Drumcondra is seeking €1.6 million for the fine detached property, just under five kilometres from the city centre.
