Bray: €1.5mA villa with a traditional layout has been extended with careful attention to configuration, writes Eivlín Roden

A Victorian era villa with a smart modern interior in Bray, Co Wicklow, is for sale by private treaty through Sherry FitzGerald with an asking price of €1.5 million.

Number 3 Sidmonton Square, a semi-detached house, looks out over one of Bray's attractive squares.

The house has a traditional layout with four rooms to each floor, and it has been been extended to the back with a modern kitchen, large bathroom and shower room. It now has a total floor area of around 279sq m (3,000sq ft) that includes five bedrooms and three reception rooms.

It can be difficult to decide how to use the particular space in villa living; whether to have all the living rooms on the hall level and all the bedrooms at garden level or vice versa, or a mixture of the two, as in this case.

Here, the main reception rooms are to the front of the house with original marble fireplaces, one white and one black, and fine shuttered sash windows, one in front and one to the side in the drawingroom, and one to the front in the diningroom. The back two rooms at this level are being used as double bedrooms.

An up-to-the minute bathroom with free-standing bath and separate shower is off the roomy return and downstairs there are three more bedrooms, all with original fireplaces, sash windows and period detailing. The extension at the back includes a kitchen with three windows looking out to the garden and maple Shaker-style units and recessed down lighting.

The downstairs hall and kitchen area are paved throughout with creamy porcelain tiles. The fourth downstairs room of the original layout has been cleverly included as a family livingroom to this area by changing its door to the back, giving access out towards the kitchen, downstairs bathroom and double doors to the back garden.

Outside, the gardens both front and back have been laid out in a semi-formal manner with electronic gates to the front, car-parking, gravel and box-edged beds.

A paved side passage leads through a wooden door to the 55ft x 45ft back garden, where there is a large paved area near the house and a formal parterre surrounded by gravel paths and with an original old redbrick garden building at the end.

Sidmonton Square is within easy reach of Bray Dart station and main street shops.