Dublin 18/€1.3m: A recent upgrade of a four-bedroom Foxrock house has kept its style true to its arts and crafts roots. Eivlín Roden reports.

Sandra, a 1940s four-bedroom dormer house on the Bray Road, Foxrock has an advised minimum value (AMV) of €1.3 million prior to auction through HOK Residential on February 22nd.

The 170sq m (1,830sq ft) house is set behind high granite walls on the Bray Road between Newtown Park Avenue and Foxrock Church and has several features of the arts and crafts style of several decades earlier.

Dark roof tiles, leaded windows and a brick border to its white façade prepare one for similar features indoors, retained in a contemporary upgrading done by the present owners three years ago.

The result is very attractive, giving loads of living areas, including some cosy spaces for curling up with a book or dreaming in front of the fire.

A glassed-in porch leads through leaded glass doors into a square inner hall with brick fireplace, polished floor and exposed dark timber ceiling beams.

Light filters through from the back, where a study area and the stairs are visible, along with views of the sea.

On the right a door leads into a long sittingroom, with timber beams and brick and stone fireplace, large leaded window to the front and several slit leaded windows along the fireplace wall. Sliding doors to a terrace fill the end wall and original wall sconces provide lighting.

Contemporary transformation of the back of the house includes opening it up to let in light as well as making a wonderful kitchen/breakfastroom with leaded windows to the front and timber doors to a deck at the back.

Sleek fitted units in wood give plenty of storage and there is still space for a six-burner Stanley Waterford cooker, granite topped breakfast bar and table and chairs at the far end.

Two doors lead from this room, one to a bedroom and en suite (presently used as a playroom) and the other through a utility room to a garage.

Upstairs are three more bedrooms and a great new bathroom tiled in creamy white, with free-standing semi-circular shower, bath and window looking out over the back to the distant sea.

There is parking for several cars in the paved and gravelled front, while the back is mostly in lawn and shrubs, with a side gate to the front. A star here is a garden shed complete with separate toilet in the same style as the house with pitched tiled roof, which would make an ideal little workroom.