This detached house in The Burnaby, that enclave of Edwardian gentility in Greystones, Co Wicklow, is a much-loved family home, filled with antiques collected by its late owner. Elegant period furniture fills the rooms, exotic rugs carpet floors, a collection of plates covers the walls. "My mother had lovely taste. There wouldn't be an antique shop in Ireland she didn't know," says her son.
His mother’s home, Kilcoursey Lodge, a 269sq m (2,895sq ft) four-bed on nearly half an acre backing onto Greystones Golf Club, is a handsome period house, with a large entrance hallway, high ceilings, many dual aspect rooms with sash windows, and marble and cast-iron fireplaces. New owners may well modernise the back of the house, where a terracotta-tiled corridor links a kitchen, pantry, conservatory and a small family sittingroom: there’s plenty of space to expand and create a large modern open-plan kitchen/diningroom/sittingroom. Kilcoursey’s Ber is F.
The vendor's parents bought the house in 1982 and made some adjustments over the years – adding the conservatory at the back and "doing a big job on the roof three or four years ago". Now Kilcoursey Lodge, Pavilion Road, The Burnaby, is for sale through Sherry FitzGerald for €1.75 million.
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An entrance porch with its original tiled floor opens into a wide reception hall typical of Edwardian homes. A decorative arch opens into a small seating area with a large white marble fireplace, and a tall arched window with stained-glass insets at the top of the stairs fills the hall with light.
The drawingroom on the right of the hall has a large white marble fireplace and two windows, one a deep bay. The diningroom has a large black marble fireplace with pretty tiled inset and is also dual aspect, with two tall sash windows with working shutters.
A door from the diningroom opens into the back hall, floored with the original clay terracotta tiles. The kitchen has white-painted units, a modern oven, a dark blue Aga in the chimneybreast and Kilcoursey’s original service bells high on the wall. A small familyroom has a high porthole window, a black cast-iron fireplace with tiled inset and a glass cabinet filled with figurines. A pantry off the hall is the right size for a wineroom, the owner suggests. There’s a utilityroom here and the conservatory opens to a back patio.
Upstairs
Upstairs are four double bedrooms and the family bathroom. The large main bedroom has a fireplace and an en suite showerroom. It looks over the front garden across to Khiva, reportedly one of the oldest houses in The Burnaby. (It’s understood it was one of Lady Burnaby’s estate offices when she planned the development of The Burnaby.)
The toilet and family bathroom are separate; the bathroom has what looks like an original clawfoot bath.
The long lawn at the back of the house is surrounded by mature trees, with an acer tree glowing autumn red; the golf course on to which it backs isn’t visible from the garden. There is lots of space to park beside the lawn at the front of the house.
Pavilion Road is a cul-de-sac of seven houses off Whitshed Road, with a lane up to the golf course at its end. Greystones Dart station is a fairly short walk from here.
