Three-level Dalkey home has designs on perfect privacy

The dormer-style Dunross appears at first glance to be a two-storey residence – the shape of the original roof has been maintained – but a viewing from the rear reveals its three levels

Dunross in Dalkey in Co Dublin is on the market for €1.775 million

When he first moved from Sandymount to Dalkey in south Co Dublin, Fergus Sheridan encountered no small amount of incredulity.

“People wondered why I was heading to the sticks,” he recalled. His new house was at the time a simple, 1930s-built, two-bed on a sparsely populated stretch of Dunhill ...