Sea and spire views from elegant period terrace

Co Dublin/€3.75m: A three storey over garden level house facing the sea at 14 Longford Terrace, Monkstown, Co Dublin, has had its elegant, high-ceilinged proportions reshaped here and there to fit the times we live in.

There is an instance of this at the end of the reception hallway from where a glass panelled door leads to an inner hallway and guest toilet with long, sash window giving views of Monkstown's church spires.

Views are a feature of the tall houses on what is unarguably one of the most elegant period terraces overlooking Dublin Bay. Since sea views are most obviously spectacular from the upper floors the owners of number 14 have opted for a first-floor drawing room, as was the original style.

Decorated carefully in classical fashion with chandeliers and highlighted period features, which includes a marble fireplace, it has three windows overlooking the bay and is 30ft wide.

This good sized house has five bedrooms, four reception rooms and kitchen/breakfastroom, and will go for auction through HOK Residential on 21st June with an AMV of €3.75m.

A rear garden full of charm and plants has a large, seductive mirror under evergreens and deep arches beneath the ground-floor patio which make for interesting, vaulted storage spaces.

The sitting and dining rooms interconnect on the ground floor. To the front, the sitting room especially has an opulent mood with floorboards polished to a dark honey colour, black marble fireplace and a pair of sash windows overlooking the bay.

Behind it the dining room has a matching fireplace, sash window with side panels overlooking a terrace on this level. Concealed behind hand-painted 'cupboard' doors is a dumb waiter.

The first-floor return is a landing with vaulted window and clear views of both Monkstown churches. The family bathroom, off the first-floor landing proper, is starkly stylish in shades of white with black and touches of green and yellow. The main bedroom, off this landing but also reached via double doors from the drawing room, has a marble fireplace.

The garden level kitchen has a white, gas-fired AGA and an extensive range of cream, rustic-style fittings.

A family room on this level has a mottled, marble fireplace and windows to the front where there is off-street parking, vital on this busy road into Dún Laoghaire.