A quaint redbrick cottage attached to a small school in Blackrock, Co Dublin, is expected to make around £325,000 (€412,665) at a Sherry Fitzgerald auction on October 10th.

Located at the junction of Carysfort Avenue and Stillorgan Park, the two-bedroom house dates from the Victorian era. The adjoining All Saints School was built in about 1879 and is still in use and the cottage is the original schoolmaster's home. The building is a landmark in this area with its steep slated roofs and "gingerbread house" eaves and window surrounds.

This is a house with much individual character, and, while small, offers potential for development as there is planning permission for an extension to the side of the property. It is owned by Irish Times photographer Matt Kavanagh and barrister Mary Kerrigan.

You enter through large, electronically controlled wooden gates and there is space for two cars to park inside on a cobbled drive. The front door leads into a small hall with original tiled floor and two doors opening off it. To the right is a large living and dining room with several narrow teak windows set in the original shuttered embrasures. The present owners put in a black cast iron fireplace with tiled insets and there is an attractive pine staircase ascending along the back wall. Around the corner is a dining area with more shuttered windows.

The kitchen, utility and bathroom open off the livingroom and are all fitted in natural wood. The kitchen is a nice square shape with window and door leading out to the side patio area. Here, planning permission for an extension has been granted and this could be made into a very large kitchen and an extra bedroom.

Upstairs has been converted into a large bedroom with a wooden ceiling and very well-thought-out storage and shelving, and access to more storage under the eaves. The second bedroom opens off the hall and is a roomy double with windows in two walls, good built-in storage and a high ceiling.

Outside there is a small pretty garden with a quarry-tiled patio and feature iron railings. This is sunny and quite private as there are high redbrick walls all around. The house is very solidly built throughout and comfortable and warm inside. It also is very secure, protected by the height of the school building to which it is attached and by intercom gates.