Loughlinstown: €525,000 The sale of Rose Cottage, Loughlinstown, Co Dublin by public tender (sealed bid by 2.30pm on June 15th) offers an unique opportunity to a developer or private buyer to create a new home on an old site of great charm.

The house is set in a quarter of an acre of gardens, with the front door reached via a bridge over a stream. Daphne L Kaye & Associates is giving a guide price of €525,000.

The detached property, secluded behind high gates, is situated beside The Silver Tassie pub. Built around 100 years ago, the double-fronted house has a small hall and four interconnecting rooms - bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and drawing/diningroom, which has a pine fireplace with slate hearth and French doors to the garden.

But the greatest potential here lies out of doors as obvious scope exists to extend the property or develop the site subject to planning permission.

Entrance to the existing house is via a short side path which turns into the large rectangular garden with a long west-facing spur. Standing at the hall door, to the left is an area of tree and shrub which could be cleared for car-parking.

The south-facing gravelled area in front of the house leads to a hump back bridge over a stream and on to a lawn bound by hedging. The west-facing lawn stretches into the distance bound by hedging and an old garden wall.