Edwardian style, modern chic off Avoca

Blackrock/€2.75m:A large square period house on Proby Square in Blackrock has an ult ra-modern kitchen/breakfastroom extension. Eivlín Rodenreports

A square two-storey Edwardian house - a 299sq m (3,214sq ft) semi-detached six-bedroom redbrick off Avoca Avenue in Blackrock, Co Dublin - is ideal for family living.

Number 4 Proby Square is for auction on May 2nd through Sherry FitzGerald with an AMV of €2.75 million.

The ground floor consists of a good sittingroom and interconnecting diningroom, each lit from either end with two windows. The front is a square bay typical of its era.

These rooms have retained all their period features, including nice fireplaces and simple ceiling covings; the kitchen and breakfastroom a few steps down at the end of a wide hall are ultra-modern with stainless steel appliances, taupe floor tiles which run into the adjoining breakfastroom and white units with beech worktops.

There is a serviceable utility space and windows on both sides. The breakfastroom has a wall of glass looking out to a deck and the back garden, accessed through sliding doors. This room has enough space for a large dining table and a sofa without feeling cramped and has a cast-iron fireplace, in keeping with the other fireplaces throughout the house.

A feature of the house is the wide hall, stairs and landings along with two roomy returns with bedroom and bathroom on each. Both bathrooms are chic and up to the minute with underfloor heating, white bowl basins and Italian stone wall and floor tiling. One has a large bath and both have commodious showers.

The first floor has two bedrooms, the main one a fine double with square bay window and fireplace. The third room on this floor has been converted to a dressingroom with plentiful storage in beech floor-to-ceiling wardrobes and has a sash window and period fireplace.

The next flight leads past the second return up to the dormer attic space and a large bedroom with windows at each end, a ceiling mirroring the roof apexes and another square room. Future owners might convert this into one stunning bedroom with en suite and walk-in wardrobe.

Outside, the railed front garden has full planning permission for off-street parking and the back garden, while not big, has been designed and planted to give a feeling of calm seclusion.