An end-of-terrace Victorian house on Newbridge Avenue, Sandymount, which has been recently restored, goes to auction with a guide price of £650,000.

Built in the 1850s, Number 5 has been in the vendor's family for more than 70 years and has many of the original features - sash windows, cornice-work, fireplaces and timber flooring.

An application has been made for planning permission to build a three-bedroom mews to the end of the 110 ft-long rear garden. The agents are Douglas Newman Good and the auction will take place on 29th June.

Newbridge Avenue is close to the Dodder and its good-sized gardens, front and rear, give a sense of openness and space to the road. The entrance hall, which has high ceilings and is filled with light, runs to a return where an extension allows for a separate breakfastroom and kitchen.

The breakfastroom, with its low-voltage lighting and polished timber floor, has two windows on to the side-of-house patio. The kitchen has fitted wall and floor units in white with steel handles, beech worktops and a backwash in clay coloured Turkish tiles.

The reception rooms have many essential Victorian elements; functioning shutters on sash windows, ceiling roses and cornices, original doors and timber floors. The original fireplaces are a feature of both rooms. Double glass doors lead from the kitchen to wooden decking and step down to the granite-walled lawned rear garden.

The area for which planning permission is being sought has a large garden shed and garage, to which there is rear vehicular access.

There is a side pedestrian access too, and a railed front garden with flower beds and laurel hedging.

The first bedroom is on the return and is en suite. As with the other two bedrooms the floorboards are original. The blue-grey tiled bathroom has a sunken bath, wash-hand basin, lavatory and two windows.

The family bathroom is also on the return, with a similar colour scheme and shower cubicle instead of bath. The top landing is lit through a stained-glass window in blue and red and leads to the main and second bedrooms.

To the front, the main bedroom is painted a dusty pink and has a pair of original windows and a marble fireplace with cast-iron inset. The fireplace in the second bedroom is in cast-iron and slate. Radiators throughout the house are covered and a basement, 5 ft high and running under the greater part of the house, could convert into an extensive wine cellar or useful storage room.