A modest Kilternan stable was where start-up bakery Sam’s Cookies began life in 1992 before advancing into a nearby, adapted 1,000sq ft double garage.

These days the cookies are made in Bray and the garage/workplace, together with the nearby family bungalow and surrounding 1.61 hectares (4 acres) of garden and paddock, is on the market through Colliers for €1.4 million.

By 1998, when Keith and Sam Johnson were building a new home/bungalow, the business had really taken off and they had the 1,000sq ft workspace added to the rear. “A purpose-built bakery for the growing business and family home all in one,” says Keith.

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The work was hard, he says, “but living in Kilternan was idyllic. I planted all the trees myself. One of our four acres is garden, the rest in paddocks for ponies and horses. The kids have left and we’re moving further out as Dublin creeps closer.”

The bungalow has a floor area of 275sq m (2,960sq ft) with a large entrance hall, open kitchen/breakfast/family room, inner hallway/pantry, sitting room, sunroom, five bedrooms (main en-suite) and family shower room.

The workshop/garage has panelled walls and ceiling and could be converted to guest accommodation. A detached stable has four loose boxes and tack room.

There are views across the sea to Howth from most rooms in the house. The main bedroom has a stove set into a cut-stone fireplace and Chinese slate flooring. All bedrooms have polished timber flooring.

The entrance hall, which has a sandstone effect floor and brick surround fireplace with solid fuel stove, is large enough to use for entertaining. The rear sitting room also has a gas stove while the sunroom leads, through glass double doors, to the gardens and a barbeque area with a cut-stone fireplace.