Number 28 St Alban's Park is a 1930s three-bedroom semi-detached house that is expected to make around £450,000 at a Sherry FitzGerald auction on December 1st. The house is set at the far end of the quiet cul-de-sac off Sydney Parade Avenue in Dublin 4.

St Alban's Park houses are popular with people trading down from the larger period houses in the Sandymount area. They are easier to manage, a stone's throw from the seafront and right beside Sydney Parade DART station and the Merrion shopping centre.

The house has a large garden, which gives scope to extend. It is very well presented and in perfect decorative order, although the lack of furniture takes some of the character from the house. The owners have installed new double-glazed windows in the front, but re-inserted the original 1930s stained glass panels between the panes.

There is a wide hallway with understairs cloakroom. The sittingroom and diningroom are open-plan and particularly bright from the front bay window and patio doors. The kitchen/ breakfastroom is at the back of the house and has a good range of modern units. A utility room and a spacious TV room/study are off the kitchen.

Upstairs, there are three good-sized bedrooms and a large family bathroom with a separate step-in shower. The walled garden wraps around the house, with the wider part at the side. There is an attached garage and off-street parking to the front.

Tristel Lodge, a professionally-restored four-bedroom period house on Tritonville Road, Sandymount, is expected to make £600,000 when it is auctioned by Douglas Newman Good on December 8th. This is a two-storey over garden Victorian house, one of the many tall elegant redbricks on Tritonville. The location close to Ballsbridge and the DART is a great draw and the house itself has been refurbished with careful attention to the architecture of the period. The house has been damp-proofed, re-roofed and re-wired and internal doors are of solid ash.

The fanlit entrance hall has pale yellow walls, a shiny marble floor and beautiful cornicing. The sittingroom at the front has an original marble fireplace and ceiling cornicing with working double-sash windows. Doors lead through to a co-ordinating diningroom and there is a guest lavatory on the downstairs return. The kitchen is in its traditional place at garden level. This is large, with old-style cherrywood units, a Belfast sink and Canadian pitch pine flooring. An adjoining breakfastroom/sunroom has a polished wood floor. Also at this level there is a utility room and a double bedroom with an en suite shower.

Two of the three bedrooms are on the first floor and a third with Velux windows off the top landing. The main bedroom has maple wardrobes, shuttered sash windows and an en suite shower room. A well-equipped family bathroom is on the first floor.

There is a patio at the back of the house and a well-stocked 45 ft garden. The front driveway is cobblelocked.