The rooftop garden on this fine redbrick Edwardian house on Skerries north beach is bound to be one of the main attractions of the house which goes to auction on June 20th through the Skerries branch of Douglas Newman Good. The guide price for Cloghmore, North Strand, is £450,000 (571,380).

The house was built in 1904 as one of a pair on a narrow road which faces the beach. The village and the harbour are a five minute walk away.

There are four bedrooms and the master bedroom has an en suite. Two of the other bedrooms have sea views.

Downstairs the main reception rooms interconnect and both have features typical of the period. There is a black marble fireplace in one room, a white marble version in the other. Both rooms have typically restrained Edwardian plasterwork on the ceiling.

The house has been extended by its present owner so there is a two-storey extension at the back. The eat-in kitchen is in the extension and is very large with extensive limed oak units, a polished granite worktop and a slate-tiled floor. The dining part of the room has a hardwood floor. There is a deep bay window in the kitchen, which looks out on the back garden.

The new owner will almost certainly wish to redecorate and to take advantage of the panoramic 360 degree views from the roof garden to make it into an outdoor room. It is accessed via a cast iron stairway which is an original feature of the house.

The large extension has eaten into the south-facing back garden which is now around 30 ft long, but that is unlikely to matter much to prospective buyers given the beach at the front of the house. There is a garage at the end of the garden, plus pedestrian access to Hoar Rock.