Dalkey: €2.95m Montpelier is a handsome redbrick semi-detached house set above Dalkey railway station on Ardeevin Road. For auction on September 21st, it's expected to make around €2.95 million, according to selling agent Ronan O'Hara of HOK Residential.

The house is known to many around Dalkey as the house and surgery of the late Goggins, father and daughter GPs whose practice ranged widely over this part of Dublin. This is an executor's sale.

Dating from the 1850s with a floor area of 372sq m (4,000sq ft) and gardens extending to 0.6 acres, the layout is typical of many Dublin redbrick houses of that era. The main house has a return on three levels stretching out behind from one corner, which gives six or seven bedrooms.

The entrance to the house is through old granite gateposts and a gravelled drive beside a beautiful garden with many old trees. The house is approached up a slight rise with a flight of granite steps which levels out in front. One of the many attractive features is that there is no basement and, because of the incline, there are wonderful views of Dublin Bay out to Howth, from all the front windows.

The hall has light streaming in from a large fanlight and a window to the side and leads into a back hall with fine double drawingroom and diningroom off it which have intact original ceiling plasterwork, wide double doors and marble fireplaces.

The main bedroom upstairs has two arched windows. And the large bedroom behind it also has marble fireplaces and ceiling work. There is a smaller bedroom over the hall.

The return could benefit from some changes, particularly the kitchen and scullery on the ground floor, which could be made into one light-filled contemporary space.

The other two floors of the return are on the sunny side of the house and have big bay windows on two sides, a good-sized room and a smaller one on each floor, and a cute staircase descending from the first floor to the kitchen quarters.

Outside there are several outhouses, a large stone arch with double doors leading into another yard and, most surprisingly, an orchard at present only accessible through a narrow side passage, but which could easily be accessed through the back of the yard.