PROPERTY WATCH: 1970s architecture meets modern decor in gorgeous Laois home for €500,000

Hume Auctioneers are marketing this four bedroom, two bathroom detached house, describing it as having “perhaps the finest address in Portlaoise”, on the Abbeyleix Road.

Downstairs off a bright hall, the sitting room with picture windows leads into a formal dining room, then to a conservatory.

There is a spacious utility room off the bright kitchen, two ground-floor bedrooms and a stylish shower room.

Upstairs are two more bedrooms, along with a large attic storage room. The home has something never found in new Portlaoise houses, huge gardens, with front lawns, two rear gardens and a big garage.

Its near neighbours include the Laois GAA Centre of Excellence, Parkside shopping centre and Portlaoise Plaza, the town centre minutes away on safe walking and cycling routes, and Junction 17 of the M7/M8 motorway just two minutes away by car. BER is pending.