Views of sea and church from Villas

Glenageary: €1.2m: The current owner of 1 Claremont Villas, a mid-19th century terraced house just off Adelaide Road in Glenageary, Co Dublin, fell for this house because of the drawingroom on the second floor.

It's easy to see why: this wide room with ornate cornicework, a large bay window, two more windows as well and views across a green space to St Paul's Church, has a peaceful, relaxed feel about it.

Twenty-six years on and with five children all grown, the owner is moving on. Number one will be sold at auction through Douglas Newman Good on March 16th, with a guide of €1.6 million.

The period home has been well maintained, and has all the period details - ornate centre roses and cornicework, period fireplaces, polished floorboards - people are looking for in this kind of property.

As it is currently arranged, a diningroom opens to the right off the entrance hall; behind it is one of the bedrooms, which new owners may reclaim as a reception room.

Downstairs, a breakfastroom opens into a kitchen off which there is a large utility room: new owners may decide to remodel this whole area, turning it into a large open-plan kitchen/dining/living space.

There are three bedrooms upstairs: the large main bedroom, with a fireplace and shuttered windows, has views over Glasthule village towards Howth, as does the very top bedroom. There is a studio/granny flat outside at the back of the house. The garden has been recently landscaped - and a green space across the road at the front was jointly bought by the owners of Claremont Villas some years ago. Glenageary Dart station is about five minutes' walk from the house.