Wilton, a terraced four-bedroom house opposite Burnaby Park, on Killincarrig Road, Greystones, Co Wicklow, is a gracious oldworld property which would delight anyone who wants the challenge of completely refurbishing a period home. It has a guide price of around £250,000, and is to be auctioned on February 18th by Jackson-Stops McCabe.

The four-bedroom house needs to be totally renovated, but has all its original features, from handsome cast-iron fireplaces in most rooms, to original red tiles on the kitchen floor, right down to the old Belfast sink in a scullery off the kitchen. Lived in by the same family for the past 40 years, and looking as if it hasn't been changed at all since it was built at the turn of the century, it could take £100,000 to turn it into a modern home.

Little Hampton, a comfortable family home on the same terrace, sold for £280,000 at auction last October, which gives some indication of the kind of price Wilton could fetch. A tiled porch opens into the hall of Wilton. Two large interconnecting reception rooms running from the front to the back of the house - with working double doors - open to the right off the hall. Both have large cast-iron fireplaces with original tiles inset.

At the rear of the house is the old kitchen, with space for a large range. Off it are the scullery - where generations of housekeepers have worn a groove in the concrete floor in front of the Belfast sink - and a bathroom, with a small fireplace. An elegant archway in the downstairs hall is mirrored by a similar arch at the top of the stairs, dividing the front bedrooms from the rooms at the back of the house. There is a skylight over the large landing.

Two of the bedrooms overlook the rear of the house; one of them, along with the lavatory and bathroom, with castiron bath, is in the return. Two bedrooms at the front look over Burnaby Park to the sea. All have fireplaces.

The house has only a small L-shaped yard at the back - a space which could be enlarged a little if new owners knocked down a coal shed by one wall. There is a small but attractive, if overgrown, front garden. The house is located at the very beginning of the Burnaby, near the corner with Burnaby Road, and is very convenient to shops in Greystones villages, and less than five minutes' walk from Greystones train station.