A 1940s detached three-bedroom house at 16 Yellow Walls Road, in Malahide, Co Dublin, has been given a guide price of £585,000 by Sherry FitzGerald in advance of its July 19th auction. Care has been taken to either keep or replace original features throughout the house so that window mouldings, maple and walnut flooring, panelled pine doors, picture rails and tiling are all intact. The fireplaces have been panelled-in but could easily be opened up again.

The floor area covers some 1,700 sq ft but given the amount of space around the house in the large front and rear gardens and the garage and side access on either side, a new owner might decide to extend.

Built as a home for two sisters who were members of a local land-owning family, the house has a pleasantly rambling feel which begins with a porch large enough to be a sunroom. It leads into an L-shaped entrance hallway. Shades of blue predominate throughout, beginning with the woodwork in the porch. The front door has a leaded glass inset, the hallway has maple flooring and blue painted wood panelling half way up the wall. On the turn of the stairs, a long, leaded glass window echoes the front door inset and floods both landing and hallway with light.

In the livingroom there's a wide bay window overlooking the rear garden and distinctive walnut flooring. Double doors lead to what is now a study but was once, judging by the serving hatch through to the kitchen, the diningroom. A glass sliding door leads to the garden.

The kitchen/breakfastroom is long and distinctly divided. Fittings in the kitchen are of oak and the breakfast area has a pine ceiling.

The main bedroom and second bedrooms have picture rails and windows overlooking the garden. In the third bedroom, there are windows in both side walls, and in the end wall. There is one family bathroom and a lavatory in which there is a separate shower, a wash hand basin, Italian timber-look floor tiling and white tiling with black on the walls.

Two large old laburnum trees give a period feel to the square west-facing rear garden. There's a mature apple tree and high hedges, a lawn, wooden tree house and a wooden garden shed.

To one side there is an outside lavatory and second shed and to the other side a garage.

The front garden has been lined and raised by railway sleepers. A wide and curving pebbled area allows parking for several cars.