The big modern detached houses in Eagle Valley, Enniskerry, Co Wicklow, enjoy views of high trees and the Wicklow mountains. Adjoining the Powerscourt Estate, the first of the Eagle Valley houses were built about five years ago, on land sold by the estate.

Number 93, Eagle Valley, for sale by private treaty through the Bray office of Jackson-Stops, is three years old and has been extensively fitted out since then. With a mock-Tudor style facade, it has five bedrooms, three reception rooms, four bathrooms, a floor area of 2,700 sq ft and an asking price of £760,000 (€965,000). Two Eagle Valley houses were sold recently by Jackson-Stops. Both fetched around £760,000 (€965,000). This one could test the market's bouyancy.

The owners have put time, money and a good deal of thought into the materials and fittings used in its decor. Changes to the original layout mean the rooms to the rear of the house - the kitchen, breakfast/dining room and family room, are now open plan and lead into each other. A change of use upstairs means that one of the five bedrooms is now a walk-in, double dressing room.

The spacious reception hallway makes an immediate statement with its black and white marble tiled floor and muted, shades of beige, colour scheme; the colours throughout are muted and the materials of high quality. A guest lavatory off the hallway has a wash hand basin and marble tiled floor. A study, to the right of the hallway, is more in the nature of a comfortable drawingroom with a wide, deep-silled window and a fireplace with a pale, curved, sandstone surround and slate inset.

To the left of the hallway a living/family room runs from the front to the rear of the house and is divided by double doors. The livingroom, at the front, has another deep-silled wide window and sandstone fireplace. The kitchen/dining/family area to the back has the benefit of light from double glass doors to the patio from the dining area and a French-style door from the family room. The scheme here is polished black granite - for the floor and worktops - and walnut in the nicely crafted fitted units.

Siemens fittings include a double oven, microwave and gas hob with extractor. The family room has a Spanish limestone surround fireplace which is, again, plumbed for gas. The utility room has a range of floor and wall maple units and a polished granite floor.

The first-floor landing has the generous proportions of the entrance hallway. The main bedroom, like all the bedrooms, has a dormer-style window and, along with two of the others, is en suite. Next to it there's the double dressing room with banks of black-fronted wardrobes. The other two bedrooms have sloping ceilings and en suites with mosaic tiling. The family bathroom has a Jacuzzi bath, heated mirror and towel rail. There is a hot press on the landing.

The rear garden is almost square, some 70 ft by 65 ft and has fledgling conifers and shrubs in triangular beds in the corners. The sandstone paved patio is bordered with lavender shrubs and the lot surrounded by high trellis.