Blackrock/€1.35m: A modernised period house has remained true to its roots. Rose Doyle reports

Giving life and light to a Victorian house can, sometimes, mean the loss of what made it original and of its period. The transforming refurbishment of 60 Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin has succeeded in creating a home in which period features are married to an open and bright modernisation.

Detached and with a guide price of €1.35 million, there are four bedrooms (with the main one en suite), four reception rooms (three of which interconnect) and a kitchen / breakfastroom over a floor area of 200 sq m (2,150 sq ft). It will be auctioned by Sherry FitzGerald on September 2nd.

Built in 1890, a lot of the work to number 60 Carysfort Avenue involved opening rooms into one another and creating light filled areas. The original, panelled doors - with their porcelain fingerplates - are for the most part in place, as are sash windows, shutters, Dado and picture rails, coving, ceiling roses and a couple of fine marble fireplaces in the diningroom.

The sense of extended space is apparent once you step into the hallway where a black and white diamond tiled floor continues through to the kitchen / breakfastroom.

Opening up what were two reception rooms to create a large diningroom has given diners the benefits of a pair of marble fireplaces with slate insets and cast-iron grates.

The interconnecting reception rooms begin with a front drawingroom, where there is a period mahogany fireplace, leads through double doors to a family room and goes on into a rear sunroom.

The family room has a mahogany fireplace with inset, free-standing gas fire. The sun room has timber flooring, lots of ornate woodwork about the rear French doors and a glass ceiling.

The fully-fitted kitchen/breakfastroom benefits from the light given by the sunroom.

Upstairs, the family bathroom and a small bedroom are on the first floor return. The bathroom has white tiling while the bedroom has a pair of built-in cupboards.

In the main, en suite bedroom there are front and rear windows, a picture rail, cornices and a bank of wardrobes in period style with curtained glass fronts. The fully-tiled en suite shower room is in shades of grey and white. A third bedroom has a sash, shuttered window to the front while the fourth has a built-in wardrobe and vanity unit.

The square shaped rear garden has high granite walls and old trees with a tree-house in situ. There is a rockery with water feature, Barna shed and side access. To the front there is off-street car-parking for a couple of cars.