Dublin 6: €3m: All eyes will be on 43 Cowper Road after a house on the same road sold for €6.3m. Orna Mulcahy reports

People lucky enough to own a house on Cowper Road in Dublin 6 where a detached redbrick, number 43, recently sold for €6.3 million, will be watching to see if the next house going for auction on the road performs as well.

Number 55, to be auctioned by Lisney on May 27th, has a strong guide of €3 million. It is a more modest home than number 43, and its smaller garden and shared driveway will also have a bearing on the price. However, there is still big demand for family homes in the immediate neighbourhood, which should ensure brisk bidding at the auction.

Number 55 is a good-sized four-bedroom house with around 260 sq m (2,800 sq ft) of living space, a sunny back garden and a useful garden studio suitable for a number of uses.

The owners have lived here for over 20 years and adapted the house a good deal, adding a conservatory and a large sunroom at the back, and converting the garage to its current use as a studio office. It's a comfortable, characterful family home, but buyers at this level of the market invariably make big changes to a house, however they find it.

In this case, new owners will probably rework the kitchen, and possibly extend as well as redecorate the first floor bedrooms. There are two principal reception rooms, a good-sized study that leads on to a conservatory filled with exotic plants. This area is overlooked by the breakfastroom which opens to the working kitchen. From here an inner hall leads onto the 22ft sunroom that extends into the garden.

Upstairs, a generous landing leads to the bedrooms and family bathroom. The main bedroom, which has a lovely outlook over the tree-lined road, has a spacious en suite.