Cranford House, an Edwardian detached house at 116 Terenure Road West, Dublin 6W, could make over £1.5 million at a Sherry FitzGerald auction on March 8th. The five-bedroom house stands on three-quarters of an acre of garden with planning permission for two additional houses. With 2,800 sq ft, it is a bright, spacious house with many original features such as cornices, mantelpieces and tiled floors.

To the front, Cranford has a gravelled parking area but its real charm is to the rear. The great sweep of garden invites gracious living and gives views of a pillar supported veranda, its high, redbrick chimneys and Tudor-style windows. Inside, Cranford House opens out from the quarry tiled reception hallway, with doors leading to the interconnecting drawing-room and dining-room, kitchen, family room, cloakroom and guest lavatory.

The kitchen, which is to the front, has a Rangemaster neatly fitted into the old chimney opening and a range of efficient and neat units with sliding pull-out storage. The family room overlooks the rear garden and there is a playroom

All of the bedrooms have attic-style, sloping ceilings. The main bedroom has a deep bay window overlooking the rear garden and shared access to an en suite shower room with wash-hand basin and lavatory. A second, double bedroom also has a bay window, this time to the front. Two of the bedrooms have original cast-iron fireplaces.