A six-bedroom Victorian home on Leopardstown Road is expected to achieve £1.5 million at auction through Sherry FitzGerald on September 28th. The house, called Mildmay, was constructed by the engineer who built Dun Laoghaire Pier and is of the same Wicklow granite. It is tucked behind high granite walls at the Stillorgan Road end of Leopardstown Road. Sheltering the front garden and framing the house are two 100-year-old Lebanese cedars, which the owners managed to preserve from destruction when the road was widened recently.

Although the house is extremely spacious at 4,500 sq ft and ideal for a large family, the rooms are a comfortable size and there is scope for converting one wing into separate living accommodation or consulting rooms.

The house is double-fronted, with high-pitched gables and four granite steps lead up to the hall door. A more recent extension by architect Brian O'Halloran was designed to blend in with the original house style.

A good section of the 0.6acre garden is to the front, providing a wide curved driveway and parking for several cars. The interior is decorated in deep period colours, and well-maintained, with richly-ornate cornicing in perfect condition. Work may be needed on some of the original sash windows. These are plentiful: the drawingroom alone has four tall windows on three sides of the house including one wide bay.

This room is particularly large, with decorative ceiling cornicing and an Adam-style marble fireplace. Beside the drawingroom, a good-sized library looks out on the back garden.

The kitchen is in the centre of the house, off an inner hallway. This has mahogany Poggenpohl units, ceramic floor tiles and a cream oil-fired Aga.

A large diningroom is sensibly located next to the kitchen. Across the hall, a big comfortable family sitting

room opens out to a sunroom with green marble floor tiles.

At the end of this inner hallway is an extra sittingroom, or games room, with a guest lavatory and large shelved utility room.

These three rooms are laid out to allow for conversion to a separate suite with little effort.

Upstairs, two of the six double bedrooms are on the first floor return through a decorative archway.

The main bedroom has a bay window overlooking the back garden. An en suite shower room/dressingroom off has an attractive French blue suite and built-in cupboards. A second double bedroom looks out to the front.

A further flight of stairs leads to a wide landing on the first floor and the five remaining bedrooms, one of which has a large dressingroom attached.

The very secluded rear garden is a special feature of Mildmay. High walls and mature birch and maple trees screen the garden on all sides.

There is a paved terrace with a built-in barbeque, surrounded by colourful flower borders, a pergola covered with climbing plants and a garden shed.