Blackrock: €825,000The houses on Frascati Park, Blackrock don't always come on the market in such good condition as number 5, a four-bedroom terraced house with a cool unfussy interior that will appeal.

Lisney is guiding €825,000 for the 140sq m (1,500sq ft) house in the run-up to auction on May 31st. The same agency has sold two properties on this road in recent months, both of which fetched around €850,000 despite being in need of upgrading.

Running between Mount Merrion Avenue and Frascati Road, Frascati Park has a distinctive period look, its deep bay windows and good gardens a reminder of when proportions were more generous. The avenue was built in 1929 on the former garden walk of Sir Edward FitzGerald's summer estate.

Today, with Blackrock's two shopping centres and the Dart around the corner and some of Dublin's best schools within cycling distance, sheer convenience is its greatest asset.

The house has a private west-facing garden and off-street car-parking for two to three cars in the cobbled front drive. A large sittingroom stretching into the front bay has a polished wood mantelpiece, ceiling coving and doors to the diningroom.

This formal diningroom has bookshelves and double French doors opening to a terrace and the back garden.

Probably the most atmospheric room in the house is a family diningroom with cherry floorboards and light walls covered with the owner's dramatic paintings. This is open-plan with the kitchen, which also sports cherrywood flooring. The utility has a door to the garden.

Upstairs, all four bedrooms are a good size and there is a family bathroom with over-bath shower. The private back garden catches the afternoon sun.