DUBLIN 4/€2.5m and €1.65m:A MODERN three-bedroom house and the cottage beside it, sitting behind a row of houses on Pigeon House Road, Dublin 4 are for sale by tender on April ???. Breslin is handling the sale which has an AMV of €2.5 million.

The cottage and the half acre of land it sits on has been in the family of one of the owners for 130 years. His grandfather ran a shop from the site where the new house stands. The garden, which has been landscaped by the current owners, used to grow vegetables that were sold in the shop.

The new house was built a few years ago, to a design inspired by an upturned boat, by architect Ros Kavanagh who has since become an architectural photographer.

On the ground floor is a kitchen, livingroom with study beyond it and a family room.

Upstairs are three bedrooms and a bathroom. The cottage beside this is a single-storey three-bedroom house measuring 60sq m (680sq ft) and is now rented for €1,950 a month. This is available with or without the current tenant.

The property has development potential say the vendors who have had a feasibility study carried out that shows six homes on the site but this would be subject to planning permission.

The proximity to the sea is evident from the upstairs rooms of the new house. "When the cruise ships come into harbour it looks as though they are coming in through the bedroom window," says one of the owners.

45A and 45B PIGEON HOUSE ROAD, DUBLIN 4

Two three-bedroom houses each with their own garden, for tender with AMV of €2.5 million

Agent: Breslin