Refurbished Victorian era semi

Dublin 6: €1.3mA three-bedroom end-of-terrace house at 21 Leeson Park Avenue, Ranelagh, Dublin 6 is for auction through Sherry FitzGerald on November 3rd with a guide of €1.3 million.

Leeson Park Avenue is off Appian Way and is a quiet L-shaped cul-de-sac lined with a variety of different Victorian houses. Number 21 is at the far end of the road and is a classic two-storey, three-bedroom, redbrick of the period. The owners have lived here for seven years and bought the house when it had already been refurbished and extended.

Downstairs there is a wide, bright hall and two interconnecting reception rooms. When this house was built it was obviously considered to be quite modest as the fireplaces in the reception rooms are cast-iron instead of the marble found in grander Victorian houses. The floorboards have been stripped and polished.

The relatively narrow back return, which would have been a scullery kitchen, was extended by previous owners and now has a small family room to the front opening into an eat-in kitchen. New owners wanting a large eat-in kitchen area will most likely consider knocking both rooms together - not the easiest job as they are divided by a chimney breast, or squaring off the whole area by extending into the side passage.

Upstairs there are three bedrooms, two large doubles and a small single as well as the family bathroom.

The main bedroom to the front has been divided to provide a deep wardrobe and an en suite. The bedroom in the return is a single.

The garden at the back has been attractively landscaped and planted with a patio area immediately outside the kitchen and, as the house is at the end of the terrace, there is a side as well as a pedestrian entrance.