Mount Pleasant Square, Ranelagh, Dublin 6, is one of the more individually preserved of the city's older squares, a fact which gives The Mews, rear of 31 Mount Pleasant Square, a head start in terms of location.

Accessed via an arch to the side of the main house, The Mews backs on to Mount Pleasant Avenue and, with views of Richmond Hill from its bedroom windows, is both private and very much at the heart of Dublin 6. Measuring some 1,500 sq ft (which includes an integrated garage), The Mews will be auctioned by Gunne Residential on April 19th. The guide price is £350,000plus (€444,410-plus).

Built four years ago, the three-bedroom house is decorated throughout in a fresh contemporary style, with a diningroom and kitchen lit by a pair of glass atriums and a good-sized sittingroom. The floors downstairs are maple, with the exception of the kitchen, which is covered with slate tiles.

The upstairs bedrooms have varnished pine floors. Earthy tones of terracotta, green and blue are used throughout and brought to life with expanses of white. The entrance hallway, off which there is a toilet with wash-hand basin, leads to the sittingroom. This has a fireplace with black slate hearth, pine mantel and surround with cast-iron inset.

A door leads to the kitchen and a squared arch to the diningroom, from where a second squared arch leads back to the kitchen.

The diningroom was built as an extension to the original mews building and has glass doors leading to the walled patio. Light from this and from the glass atrium, which matches a similar structure in the kitchen, makes for a sunroom effect. The kitchen's slate floor tones with the marble-effect worktops and the dark blue tiles of the splashback.

A comprehensive range of units at wall and floor level are painted white and there is a built-in hob and oven, Franke sink and recessed lighting. A door from the diningroom leads to the garage/utility room. Upstairs, the main bedroom has a bank of wardrobes taking up one wall and the adjoining corner of another. There is a small Velux window as well as a window overlooking Richmond Hill. The second bedroom also has built-in wardrobes. There is a hot-press on the carpeted landing and limited attic space overhead.

The rear patio is sheltered but overlooked. It has creepers on the trellised walls and flowers and shrubs in beds which make use of railway sleepers. Heating is gas-fired and all the windows are hardwood and double-glazed.