Ailesbury Way is a gated enclave of modern redbrick detached houses off Ailesbury Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. Built in l990, 5 Ailesbury Way is three storeys high with four/five bedrooms, three reception rooms and a dining hallway.

It has Chinese slate flooring, and rosewood dado rails and panelling. Agent Lisney is quoting a guide price of £1 million (€1.27m) in advance of the 26th September auction date.

To the front of the house there is a garden and patio area and to the rear a large, southerly patio.

The result is a sense of privacy and space. Inside the house there's a great deal of light, much of it coming from a window which is almost the height of the house.

The kitchen is one of the brighter rooms, with large Velux windows pouring light onto the pink, John Daly hand-painted integrated units. A good working kitchen with dining area, the floor is Junckers hardwood. Off it there is a pink-tiled utility room.

A sittingroom on this floor has strong pink walls and matching carpet. The white marble fireplace is gas fired and a wide window overlooks the back patio.

A sunroom to this rear part of the house has another Junckers floor and a wall of glass overlooking the patio.

The dining hallway is another distinct architectural feature. A deep bay window, as well as a glass door to the front porch, lightens the sober tones of the Chinese slate flooring, the mahogany fireplace and rosewood dado rail and the wood panelling which extends on up the stairs.

Off an inner hallway, which again has Chinese slate flooring, there is a toilet.

A first floor drawingroom, which could be used as a bedroom, has two windows and another white marble fireplace with gas fire. It is beige carpeted and the walls are a deep cerise.

Double doors lead to a study/bedroom: opened, these doors make one large and very spacious room. Across the landing another bedroom has a bank of fitted wardrobes.

The top floor has an attic-style, en suite bedroom with bay window. The colours are pink and beige and a bank of fitted wardrobes have mirrored fronts. The en suite has a bath with shower, wash-hand basin and toilet.

A fourth bedroom, to the rear, has a dormer-style window and fitted wardrobe and a fifth, to the front, has another dormer-style window and smaller, fitted wardrobes.

The patio has been planted with shrubs and bushes as well as climbing clematis and wisteria.