The late Mrs Inna Stuart outside 46 Francis St, Manly in 1967, the year it was built. Note both the red telephone box and post box on the corner.

Check out the retro lounge with original furniture, textured wallpaper and brown and white abstract carpet.Source:Supplied

Apart from a kitchen modernisation the Manly brick- veneer home is a faithful throwback to the mid-1960s.

Groovy baby, the old bathroom circa 1967.Source:Supplied

There is the classic best lounge with its sateen floral wallpaper and piebald coloured carpet, mother of pearl lighting and a pink and white retro bathroom straight from the groovy age.

Photographs of 46 Francis St, Manly when built in 1967 show a London-style red telephone box and a pillar-box red post box outside – both of which have now disappeared in this age of mobiles and internet.

Looking over Graham Reserve from outside the house in the sixties.Source:Supplied

Maria Cassarino, of Stone Real Estate, said the deceased estate on the corner of Arthur St had a guide of $1.65 million to $1.8 million and was booked for auction on Saturday, February 20.

Ms Cassarino said buyers aged in their 20s to early 40s love untouched houses.

The Francis St kitchen when new.Source:Supplied

“They have the energy and dreams of what it can be,” she said.

“And they don’t feel bad tearing apart something that has been renovated.”

Inspections are welcome today (Saturday, January 30), 10.15am-10.45am.