A four-bedroom semi-detached 1920s home near the sea at Sandycove, Co Dublin, has been tastefully refurbished as a modern home with many period details. It will be sold at auction through Gunne Residential on November 8th, and has a guide of £560,000.

Number 6 Ballygihen Avenue, Sandycove, is a short walk from the seafront and the Forty Foot bathing place, and has views of Scotsman's Bay. It was sold at auction in its original condition in July 1998 for £281,000.

Since then, the house has been completely renovated and extended, both at the back and into the attic, and features polished pine flooring throughout. It has been rewired, re-plumbed (it now has three bathrooms) and has gas central heating, stripped pine doors and brass light switches.

Accommodation downstairs includes three good-sized reception rooms - a sittingroom with period-style fireplace to the right of the hall with a bay window and a study with cast-iron fireplace opening into the diningroom. The fitted kitchen/breakfastroom also opens into the diningroom.

There are three bedrooms and the main bathroom upstairs; the fourth main bedroom on the top floor is en suite. There is off-street parking at the front for several cars and a walled back garden.