A detached house in a cul-de-sac setting off Monkstown Road in Co Dublinneeds extensive refurbishment,is sure to attract a good number of viewers. Orna Mulcahy reports.

The relatively low guide price of €1.25 million is sure to attract a good number of viewers to 4 Queens Park in Monkstown, Co Dublin - a large detached Victorian house in a quiet cul-de-sac setting.

Daphne L Kaye & Associates will auction the property on November 26th and while it is likely to fetch over the guide, new owners will have to budget a good deal more for restoration work.

It's a fine double-fronted house but it does need extensive refurbishment on all three floors.

These days, the cost of such refurbishment is likely to run to hundreds of thousands of euro.

Number 4 is located close to the entrance to Queens Park, off Monkstown Road. It is one of a row of impressive period houses on a curve of the road.

Old cast-iron gates open into a wide tarmacadam driveway that continues around to a garage at the side of the house.

Behind the house is a small patio garden, number 4 and its neighbours having lost their gardens to modern housing sometime in the last century.

A flight of granite steps leads up to the front door which opens into a wide hallway with a large high-ceilinged room on the right.

This is currently fitted as a kitchen though it is likely that a reorganisation of the house will see the kitchen relocated to the ground floor, which is currently a self-contained flat.

A large double drawingroom is the finest room in the house, with its deep bay window to the front and tall windows to the side making it extremely bright, even on a dull day.

Mahogany stained floorboards run through both rooms, while the front drawingroom has an impressive white marble fireplace.

Here too, the intricate ceiling cornices are complemented by a striking ceiling rose.

An elegant staircase leads to the upper floor where there are four bedrooms leading off a spacious landing.

Fitted bookshelves on the landing conceal a door to the bathroom, which is now accessed through the main bedroom.

There is a second bathroom at a higher level, up a short flight of stairs.

All four bedrooms are big double rooms with tall windows, but little more in the way of period detail.

The ground floor flat, which can be accessed both from an internal staircase and its own entrance at the front of the house, has a large sittingroom with an original marble fireplace, a double bedroom, kitchen and bathroom.

The detached garage at the side of the house offers some potential for development, either as a separate mews or as further accommodation, subject to the necessary planning permission.

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