Co DublinTwo very different properties on Proby Square, off Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin, come to the market this week. One house, built in the 1940s, has been given a totally modern revamp. The other, built 40 years earlier, still has many period features. Anne Dempsey reports

Number 4 Proby Square, a large semi-detached house in mellowed redbrick, was built around 1908 and has been in the same family for many years.

Its 269 sq m (2,900 sq ft) of accommodation is spread over four floors and a quarter of an acre of rear and side gardens offer development potential. It will be auctioned on September 24th, with agent Allen & Townsend guiding €1.1m.

The house retains original cornice-work, coving and period fireplaces. The livingroom has a large square bay window and double doors leading to an equally good-sized diningroom, which has an adjoining shower room.

A small kitchen and adjoining breakfastroom are in need of an upgrade, and combining them into one large kitchen seems an obvious move.

The main bathroom and one bedroom are on the first floor return. There are three bedrooms on the first floor with scope for creating a new bathroom and/or en suite conversions.

The second floor has a fifth bedroom and storage room, while the three rooms at the top of the house could be combined to create a stylish main bedroom, shower and dressingroom or a home office suite.

The front of the house has a pedestrian and vehicular entrance. The large back garden is set in lawn and there is a rear pedestrian entrance.

Some of the adjoining properties have capitalised on the space and rear access with a mews house development.

Number 4 has this potential also, as well as space for building at the side of the property.