Blackrock: €1.75mDunmore, at 133 Mount Merrion Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin is an impeccable, spacious and light-filled family home with oodles of living space and large, well-maintained gardens. It is scheduled for auction on October 13th through Sherry FitzGerald with a guide price of €1.75 million.

Located about half-way up Mount Merrion Avenue, the house occupies a large site and is well set back from the road. The front garden has a decent lawn, some mature planting and a gravelled area that provides ample car-parking. Built in the 1930s, it has been comprehensively upgraded and the high-quality finish throughout includes Rationel timber windows, marble and reclaimed pine floors and handmade internal doors with handsome handles. The total floor area is 260 sq m (2,800 sq ft).

The front door opens into a warm hall floored in creamy marble. Off the hall, to the left, a formal drawingroom, with a beautiful fireplace, is connected to a cosy livingroom by double doors; this in turn opens to a playroom, the rear garden and the kitchen. The kitchen has a range of cream units and wooden worktops, and a wall of storage includes an American-style fridge-freezer. Light pours through French doors and a bank of windows over the sink that wrap around the corner, and glass in the eye-level units help to keep it bright. A bar counter forms a nice link to the open-plan diningroom and family room, which leads back out to the hall.

There is a separate utility room that leads to the garage and the garden, and also on this level is a study that could serve as a fifth bedroom.

The rear garden is long and comprises a mix of planting, paving and lawn.

Upstairs are four bedrooms, of which three are doubles and two are en suite. The huge main bedroom has a fireplace, a walk-in dressingroom and a luxurious en suite with more marble tiling and a sleek oval bath.

Convenient to the city centre, Mount Merrion Avenue is well served by shops, schools and by public transport, being close to a QBC and the DART.