Ballsbridge:€4m A five-bedroom detached house at 136 Merrion Road, Dublin 4 is set to make €4 million at auction through Lisney on May 30th.

The creeper-clad house is reached through a wonderful front garden behind high walls and electronically controlled wooden gates. There is parking for several cars, a bonus in busy Ballsbridge.

The 263sq m (2,830sq ft) house has a good-sized study and drawingroom, both with bow windows looking to the front.

The back of the house is made up of a diningroom, kitchen and breakfast den all looking out to the back garden.

These rooms, decorated in soft green, all open into each other and are planned to make the best of the pretty back garden with large windows and French doors.

Off the breakfast area a door leads out to a charming separate guest suite with bedroom opening to the garden, tiled en suite shower room and its own front door leading into a private courtyard with statue of Pan in the centre.

Upstairs are four good bedrooms, the main one en suite and with fitted light oak wardrobes. The large family bathroom has twin basins, Jacuzzi bath, separate power shower and mosaic tiles in tumbled marble.

The attic space, with timber staircase from the landing partially divided and lit by three large Velux windows, makes a cosy study/bedroom.

Storage has been efficiently dealt with by Neville Johnson through the use of fitted units in oak or walnut in several bedrooms, the study and the attic, all of which, with the soft colours, gives streamlined comfort throughout the house.

There is room for at least a half dozen cars on the gravelled drive and there is a pedestrian door to the quiet Merlyn Drive cul-de-sac from the back garden.