Address: The Chalet, 16 Killiney Road, Killiney, Co Dublin
Agent : DNG

There's a garden to the front and back of this detached three-bedroom bungalow. Cars are well catered for with a drive to the front and garage to one side. The 100sq m (1,076sq ft) house has a livingroom with bay window at the front of the house and a kitchen and diningroom to the back overlooking the garden, as well as a bathroom. One of the bedrooms also has a bay window overlooking the front. Ber G

Location, location: the hill, the village and the sea (although they are a fair distance away) never mind nearby Glenageary Dart station. There’s a sizeable if narrow garden.

It hardly needs saying that the house needs work and there is some satisfying ripping out to do, after taking in the wonder of the swirly carpets and mock-rock fire surrounds.

Address:Rolestown House, Rolestown, Co Dublin
Agent: O'Farrell Cleere Auctioneers

Only just in the country, this late-Georgian beauty needs work but has many attributes, from its period proportions and features (tall sash windows, plasterwork, timber floors and fireplaces), to four acres of land with charming mature gardens, a stone courtyard and outbuildings. Built in 1800, the house has five bedrooms, a drawingroom, diningroom, livingroom, kitchen/diningroom and bathroom. Storage space includes a lumber room and laundry room. Ber G

The type of house that will amply reward those who are prepared to spend time on it. Dublin and the airport are a short urban-fix away. The garden is a classic charmer with colourful plants .

There is all that renovation work and anyone who panics at the sight of ivy on a building, in fear of where it might have rooted, will be deterred. One bathroom.