A house by the sea in Sandycove, Co Dublin, may be familiar to anyone who's driven up the hill to the Joyce Tower and the Forty Foot.

The Billows, a four-bedroom villa-style semi-detached house, is on the corner of Sandycove Avenue East and the hill (a road called Sandycove Point). Now the property is for sale by private treaty for €1.75 million through Sherry FitzGerald.

It’s a bright, comfortable home, probably built in the early 1800s, with lots of intact period details.

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The owners modernised when they moved in 35 years ago, installing central heating and so on and new owners may want to upgrade various aspects of the house, but it has been well-maintained.

There are views of the sea from many of the PVC bay windows in most of the rooms, upstairs and down.

A front lawn fringed by colourful flowerbeds leads to the front door.

There’s a fanlight over the door, which opens into a parquet-floored hall which also has rich plasterwork and opens into two reception rooms.

The drawingroom on the right is bright, with a large marble fireplace and two tall bay windows; there’s a seat in the bay window of the the parquet-floored livingroom on the left.

An internal hall door – with an attractive coloured fanlight over it – leads from the entrance hall to an inner hall.

Up a short flight of stairs there are three double bedrooms on the return: the main bedroom, on the sea-side of the house, has an en suite and there is a separate shower room.

Down more stairs, at garden level, there’s another double bedroom, bathroom, a large formal diningroom and a room used as a study as well as a spacious and comfortable livingroom/breakfastroom/kitchen with an Aga.

Outside, there’s a good-sized and sheltered back garden, where colourful and well-tended flowerbeds surround a large patio.

There’s comfortable parking for two cars in a gravelled space to the front.