Booterstown: Booterstown Avenue in Booterstown is long and narrow with a pleasantly quirky mix of house periods and styles. Number 49 Booterstown Avenue, which is for sale through Lisney with a guide price of €900,000, is part of a redbrick Victorian terrace dating from the early 1880s.

With two storeys over garden level, it has two reception rooms, an open-plan living/kitchen area at garden level, three bedrooms and an attic conversion. It goes to auction on November 19th.

Number 49 has been modernised without the sacrifice of original features, like sash windows, shutters, cornices and decorative plaster. High, granite steps lead to the front door where a fanlight indicates the light-filled aspect of the house within, a feature emphasised everywhere in shades of yellow on the walls and white woodwork.

The entrance hallway, painted a lemony-yellow, has a dado rail, decorative cornice work and large ceiling rose. The garden level has been extensively redesigned to make for a pleasant family space with a cork-floored, open-plan family / kitchen / diningroom.

Accessed either by steps from the hallway or separate, front garden-level entrance, the kitchen area has an extensive range of wooden green-painted floor and wall fittings as well as an integrated Miele oven with warming drawer, dishwasher and ceramic hob. A large, centre island has a white tiled top and storage underneath.

In the family area there is deep shelving to either side of the open fire and double glass doors leading to the rear patio and garden. A black-and-white tiled corridor leads to a utility area, large hot press, shower room with toilet and wash-hand basin and another door to the patio and garden.

In the interests of child safety, all of the glass on this level has been replaced with the tempered, unbreakable kind.

The high-ceilinged reception rooms on the hall floor are typical of their period. Windows at either end fill the space with light and original, interconnecting doors can be closed to make for separate rooms.

Ornate cornice work is intact, there is a picture rail and a pair of similar, grey marble fireplaces with painted brick inset to suit the clean line offered by creamy yellow and white-painted walls and woodwork.

The first of two similar bathrooms is situated on the return as you go upstairs - the second is on the lower return. The bathroom on the upper return is slightly larger and has a bidet as well as bath, wash-hand basin and toilet.

Of the three first floor bedrooms, two are to the front of the house, the third to the rear. The main, rear bedroom overlooks school playing grounds at St Andrew's College, has a wall of mirrored sliderobes and a picture rail.

There is a linen storage press on the landing, from where a spiral staircase climbs to the attic conversion and fourth bedroom. A wall here has been given over to shelving and a pair of Velux windows offer more views of playing fields. The upper landing has another Velux as well as under-eave hanging and storage space.

There is a cobble-locked patio to the rear and beyond that a lawned garden surrounded by ivy and creeper-clad walls. The garden to the front of the house has both railings and a low wall.