The owner of 29a Lennox Street in Portobello, Dublin 8, downsized to it from a vast Victorian house five years ago. He brought with him a love of that period that is clear in his renovation of this 1940s house. He installed Victorian-style fireplaces, painted the walls and woodwork throughout with soft Farrow & Ball colours and put shutters on the window in the front room. The three-bedroom house is for sale by private treaty through Sherry FitzGerald for £330,000 (E;419,010).

The brick and pebble-dash house is in a small terrace surrounded by either Victorian three-storey houses or redbrick artisan dwellings.

During the renovation, the ground floor was redesigned to provide two interconnecting rooms which are joined by double doors. The kitchen is off the back reception room and further along again is the first of the two bathrooms.

A new maple floor was laid, and along one wall in the back room is a Oakline unit which, as well as providing a great deal of storage, conceals the radiator. Also in this room are two glazed doors which open out on to the back patio.

The kitchen is Oakline with solid pine countertops and a ceramic tiled floor.

Upstairs, there are two double bedrooms and one single. Two bedrooms have cast-iron fireplaces and one has a large fitted wardrobe. The bathroom is much larger than expected and again this has been renovated to a high specification with cobalt blue handmade tiles around the bath and industrial rubber flooring.

The small attic space has been converted and the present owner uses it as a study. It has a large Velux window and is accessed via a pull-down staircase.

The house is at probably the widest point on Lennox Street so it enjoys an open aspect that is particularly obvious in the bedrooms, from which the views stretch down to the South Circular Road and Synge Street.

Outside, as much as possible has been made of the small back and front gardens. Immediately outside the back doors there is a deck and beyond that the narrow space has been gravelled and planted with a large eucalyptus.

A new wall of mellow coloured reclaimed brick divides the house from its neighbour. The front garden is a mixture of paving and lush planting.