New homes: Dalkey redbricks with smart interiors are high-spec and high-end

There will be 21 homes in this development near Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel in Killiney

Eight houses in Dalkey Manor,  in Killiney, go on sale this weekend with prices ranging from €875,000 to €1 million
Eight houses in Dalkey Manor, in Killiney, go on sale this weekend with prices ranging from €875,000 to €1 million

Eight houses in Dalkey Manor, a new development near Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel in Killiney, Co Dublin, go on sale this weekend with prices ranging from €875,000 to €1 million. Aimed at the top end of the new homes market, the terraced 192sq m (2,075sq ft) four-bedroom redbrick homes have an A Ber-rating, are three storeys high and have a second livingroom dubbed an "entertainment room" on the second floor.

When finished, there will be 21 homes in the development, 19 of them terraced four-beds. Two two-bedroom houses in the scheme have already been built and sold for €600,000 and €625,000; the scheme is due to be completed by May 2017.

The homes on the two-acre site on Killiney Road, Dalkey, Co Dublin, are for sale through Hora Property Consultants.

Clonlost House

Dalkey Manor is built in the grounds of  Clonlost House, a 465sq m (5,000sq ft) Victorian house until recently run as a religious retreat house. Clonlost is being refurbished by Dalkey Manor developer Ecologic Design & Build, and is due to go on the market before the end of the year with an asking price of €2.5 million.

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Dalkey Manor is near the top of Killiney Road, a short walk from the entrance to Fitzpatrick Castle. The development is not to be confused with a 2.32-acre site and six-bedroom house on nearby Barnhill Road, also called Dalkey Manor, which went on sale for €7 million in April this year.

A lot of what’s on show in the smart showhouse comes as standard: that includes a limestone fireplace with wood-effect gas fire in the livingroom, two side-by-side integrated fridge freezers and Silestone-topped island unit and countertops in the kitchen and a large walk-in dressingroom in the main bedroom on the top floor.

Underfloor heating

The homes all have underfloor heating and an energy efficient heat pump heating system.

The showhome’s kitchen/ diningroom is a large bright large open-plan space with porcelain-tiled floors, a decent-sized utility room, and floor-to-ceiling sliding doors opening on to the back patio and 36ft-long landscaped back garden.

The first floor livingroom at the front of the house is very large; there’s also a double and a single bedroom and fully-tiled family bathfloor-to-ceiling sliding doors opening onto the back patio and 36ft-long landscaped back gardenroom – with standard Villeroy & Boch sanitary ware – on this floor. The main bedroom on the top floor has a 12ft high ceiling and en suite wetroom with a walk-in shower, as well as a second en suite double bedroom.

Outside, there’s parking for two cars. There will be an annual service charge of about €600.

Rathfarnham-based builder Michael Kilkenny is the principal of Ecologic Design, a firm that built recent developments in Dún Laoghaire such as Kensington Manor on Rochestown Avenue and Cluny Manor on nearby Avondale Road.