Tucked away beside its taller period neighbours on Eaton Square, Monkstown, is Number 21, a detached Edwardian house with four bedrooms and three reception rooms.

This house has been extended and refurbished over the last three or four years and is in walk-in condition. Scheduled for auction through Lisney on November 17th, it is expected to make £380,000. It should appeal to potential buyers with young children, since the popular Irish-speaking junior school, Scoil Lorcain, is next door. With a total floor area of just under 1,700 sq ft, the house was recently extended at the front to allow for bigger and brighter reception rooms and for a wider hallway.

Timber windows with leaded insets across the top have replaced the originals, while some inner doors, fireplaces and picture rails are original. Fireplaces removed from two of the bedrooms have been carefully stored and could be replaced.

The front door, sheltered by a porch, has decorative glass panels. The entrance hallway has glass panels to the right and left, both revealing and giving light to the sittingroom and diningroom respectively. An original, glass-panelled door leads to the inner hallway, from where doors lead to the reception rooms, as well as to the kitchen and family room to the rear.

Off the kitchen is a laundry room, and there is also a shower room at this level. The sittingroom has a wide bay window and a period castiron fireplace with an attractive tiled inset. In the diningroom, which has an ash floor, there is another wide window with a deep sill.

The compact kitchen has an alcove where the range would have once stood and there is a good selection of wall and floor units. Next door is the family room, which, like the kitchen, overlooks the back garden. The utility room is fully fitted with units and it has a door to the garden.

The stairs is lit by a window that overlooks the playground of Scoil Lorcain and gives views of a not-so-distant Dublin Bay.

Upstairs, the main bedroom overlooks Eaton Square and has an original cast-iron fireplace. A second bedroom to the front has built-in wardrobes and the other two bedrooms, both to the rear, have long windows and, in one case, built-in wardrobes and a wash-hand basin. All four rooms share a family bathroom, which is attractively finished with a maple floor and white tiling.

Off the landing is a capacious hot-press and a hatch overhead leads to the attic, for which there is planning permission for a conversion.

The back garden is not large but, being west facing, it gets good afternoon sun. There is off-street parking in front of the house.