Station master's home for £320,000

The original station master's house in Bray, long ago converted to a family home, will be sold by auction on May 26th. Joint selling agents H J Byrne and Palmer McCormack expect the four-bedroom house to fetch around £320,000. Built between 1853 and 1860 the house has been very tastefully upgraded while retaining its period windows and interior doors.

The refurbishment included extending the kitchen, creating an extra bedroom and bathroom, redecorating the house and landscaping the gardens.

Double hardwood gates and a side wicket-gate are both electrically-controlled. The front garden is set in lawns and flowers and there is gravelled parking at the side for two or three cars. The rear garden, laid in washed gravel, is fringed and screened by mature greenery. There is also pedestrian access from the garden to Albert Walk.

The entrance porch opens via a glass-panelled period door to a hall floored in green ceramic tiles. The dining/ sitting room has deep yellow walls, ceiling cornices painted white, an original timbered floor and a period cast-iron fireplace. But its chief charm lies in its windows - a deep square bay window and two smaller sashed ones, each with its original shutters.

The kitchen is tiled in the same ceramic tiles as the hall. It has floor and wall cupboards in pine, and a Franke sink. Outside the back door is a sheltered yard and adjacent store room - part of which has been tiled and plumbed to fit a washing machine and dryer. There is also an outside lavatory and fuel store.

A family room adjoins the kitchen with a redbrick hearth and built-in cupboards and bookcases on either side.

A room under the stairs currently serves as a tiny home office. The bathroom on the first floor return has its original bath, now panelled in wood, and original wash-hand basin. The period window is dressed in white printed voile. The lavatory is contained within the bathroom, its entrance an attractively arched panelled door.

The four bedrooms are on the first floor and two were made from one large room. These are particularly pretty rooms, each with a wash-hand basin and built-in wardrobe storage. Both are carpeted in soft pale green wool and each one has a small period window dressed with floral curtains. Carpets and curtains throughout the house are included in the sale.

The main bedroom is very stylishly decorated in cream and white, and has two sash windows dressed in pale brocade. A roomy adjoining en suite is totally tiled, has a roof Velux window, and features a corner bath with Jacuzzi.