Howth Road/€855,000: Number 142 Howth Road is typical of the period grace of its neighbours. Late Victorian, semi-detached with lavish gardens, it sits on a half-acre site at the end of a row of houses.

Laid out in six bedrooms, two reception rooms, study and kitchen, necessary refurbishment may alter this. Lisney is guiding €855,000 prior to auction on March 25th.

It is a wide house. Many original features are intact and include cornice work, internal doors, sash windows and picture and Dado rails. The front-facing, wall-to-wall windows in the diningroom are special and here the cornices are intact. The front-facing livingroom has a deep bay window with cornice work in cream. The main hallway leads to a rear, inner hallway where there is a cloakroom with toilet and storage.

A second cloakroom has a feature window and door to the gardens. Another door leads to an understair storage area. The kitchen, in need of modernising, has an Aga and fitted presses. A study at this end of the house has another brick fireplace.

Upstairs, three of the bedrooms and family bathroom are on a return. The first bedroom has a fireplace, sloped ceiling and two windows over the rear gardens. A second bedroom has a walk-in shelved linen cupboard. A third bedroom has a smaller room off which would make an en suite. The main bedroom is off the first floor landing. A fifth bedroom has shelving and a window to the front and a sixth bedroom, also front-facing, has a cast-iron fireplace.

There is a garage to the side and a side entrance. The rear gardens have holly and fruit trees. There is a wooden shed, stone storage shed and outside fuel storage.