The prospect of living close to town and beside Sandymount Strand will be the main attraction of an Edwardian three-bedroom terraced house to be auctioned next month. Number 16 Gilford Road is expected to make more than £400,000 under the hammer on July 2nd, according to selling agents Lisney.

The houses at the beach end of Gilford Avenue are of redbrick with tiled porches and all have very pretty railed front gardens. Number 16 has been well modernised and is deceptively large inside. The front door has leaded-light panels and the porch is tiled. Inside, there is a wide hallway with very fine ceiling cornicing and an inner hall through an archway.

The sunny, yellow-painted sitting room has a pine floor, beautiful cornicing and a black marble mantelpiece with a polished brass canopy. Stained-glass topped windows add to the period feel of this room. Interconnecting doors lead to a dining room, which also has a pine floor, well-preserved ceiling detail and a marble fireplace.

The long narrow kitchen is painted white, with a range of oak-framed cupboards and a tiled floor. There is space here for family dining. There are three bedrooms upstairs, one of these large enough to be divided into two. The main bedroom is 18 ft long and has a polished wood floor, marble fireplace and two picture windows overlooking the front garden. Bedroom two is a double room and has a cast-iron fireplace and a pine floor. The smallest bedroom is a single. The bathroom is upstairs and this also has a pine floor. At the back, the garden is nicely laid out, with formal borders, box hedges and a bay tree at the end of the lawn. There is also a timber garden shed. Sandymount is probably one of the most convenient of Dublin's suburban villages. Two DART stations are within walking distance and there are a couple of bus routes. There is also a village green and specialist food shops.