Now is the time to relax on the patio, when summer gardening chores are over, the potted plants have done their best and there are just a few short weeks left to enjoy al fresco living. The owners of a cottage at 72 Lombard Street West in Dublin 8 have made their back yard part of the house by running the same terracotta floor out into an enclosed yard, so that when the wide patio doors are open, indoors and outside work as one long living-room.

It is one of the most appealing aspects of the Victorian terraced two-bedroom house which will shortly be on the market through Sherry FitzGerald with the guide price likely to be in the late £200,000s.

Smothered in creeper on the outside, the house has an unexpected interior with much of the floor area given over to a big open plan kitchen-cum-living-room floored in warm terracotta.

At the front of the house, but slightly lower than street level, the kitchen is furnished with pine units topped in polished granite.

There is space to seat six to eight people within the kitchen area while the large sitting-room feels particularly spacious with its brilliant white walls and recessed ceiling lights. The room becomes a conservatory when the patio doors open outwards. Off the living area is a separate study with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the patio. Beyond it is a utility room.

The hall has a polished timber floor and walls painted terracotta red. A short flight of steps leads to the upper landing. There are two double bedrooms upstairs in the upper return, one of which has an en suite shower room. There is also a bathroom.

The patio is small but attractive, its walls are covered in ivy.