Co Dublin: €1.3m A restored villa on Albert Road in Sandycove is one of the best houses in the area to come on the market this season, writes Orna Mulcahy

A thoroughly remodelled Victorian villa on Lower Albert Road in Sandycove is expected to fetch over €1.3 million at auction through Douglas Newman Good on May 6th.

This four-bedroom terraced house will tick lots of boxes for wealthy families seeking a trade-up home. It's in a good location, close to the sea, the DART and to schools and shops.

It has a surprisingly large interior of around 213.6 sq m (2,300 sq ft) and there is an additional 25 sq m (270 sq ft) of living space in a recently-built structure at the end of the 110 ft walled back garden.

Best of all, the house is ready to walk into having been fully refurbished in 2001. Underfloor heating, cherrywood and stone flooring throughout, top of the range bathroom fittings, and handmade timber kitchen units are all part of the package.

Inside the fashionably black front door is a wide, bright hallway with an elegant livingroom on one side and the main bedroom suite on the other. This includes a large bright en suite bathroom with an outsize shower and free-standing bath.

A second bedroom leads off the hallway, with the remaining two bedrooms sharing a large bathroom upstairs.

Double doors lead from the back of the hall through to a superb double height kitchen cum livingroom that is almost 40 ft long with a mezzanine room over the kitchen area and masses of light spilling down from roof lights and Veluxes. It's a show-stopper of a room with a wall of windows that slide open onto a two-tier expanse of deck.

The tall windows are echoed at the end of the garden in the garden structure that is currently used as a gym but could easily convert to guest or staff accommodation.

The garden is mostly in lawn with low maintenance shrub filled borders. This is certainly one of the best houses coming on the market in the area this season and it will be no surprise if it makes well over the guide price.