A stylishly renovated four-bedroom house in The Burnaby, Grey stones, is expected to fetch in the region of £525,000 when it is auctioned by H J Byrne on March 8th. Positioned on the fringe of the Burnaby, a few minutes walk from South Beach, Knockbawn Lodge is a pretty detached house with off-street parking to the front and an enclosed rear garden.

Built in 1906, the house has been refurbished and extended by the present owners over the past five years. The ground floor has been entirely remodelled and extended with the addition of a sunroom. A high stone wall gives complete privacy to this old-style property. Inside the front door, the feeling is of light and space, achieved by an uncluttered approach and a palette of neutral colours - cream white and stone - which work well with mellowed brick work walls and natural pine floors and fittings.

There are three interconnecting reception rooms. The front entrance leads directly into a large rectangular shaped sittingroom with glimpses through double arches to the kitchen and dining area beyond. The sittingroom has a box bay window with featured wooden blinds. A period fireplace with a tiled inset in deep green is topped by a pine mantel.

Double doors lead into the drawingroom which, in turn, opens into a large sunroom. Both drawingroom and sittingroom have matching carved pine period fireplaces and polished timber floors. Foldaway glazed doubled doors lead from the drawingroom to the sunroom, a lovely room with walls of reclaimed period brick in shades ranging through pink and stone to pale orange. The pitched roof is double gazed, and there is direct access to an enclosed back garden courtyard.

The L-shaped kitchen/ dining area is floored in red quarry tiles. The kitchen units are in white. A range of equipment - double oven, gas hob, extractor hood, integrated fridge freezer and dish washer - is included in the sale. The dining area has a brick wall painted white and sliding doors to the south west-facing courtyard.

There is one ground floor bedroom reached through an arched pine door. It has an en suite shower room.

There are three bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs. The smallest is front-facing with views of rolling hills, and has a built-in wardrobe of stripped pine. The second bedroom has a fitted pine wardrobe, fitted wall shelving painted white and access via French doors to a small verandah. The third bedroom-cum study is an L-shaped room with the added character of sloping eaves.

The front garden is set in lawn. The inner front section is cobbled, and there is space for three cars. The rear garden courtyard is totally enclosed and fringed by mature shrubs and trees.