An original on Belgrave Square

Dublin 6: €2.5m: One of the first houses to be built on Belgrave Square in Rathmines, Dublin 6, is to be sold at auction by Gunne on May 24th.

Number 41, a 225sq m (2,430sq ft) four-bedroom house with an advised minimum value (AMV) of €2.5 million, was one of two houses built around 1843 overlooking what was later to become the square - at the time, it was open countryside near Rathmines village.

The couple who own number 41 are downsizing to a smaller house now that their children are grown. The house is in very good condition but is likely to be modernised by new owners.

It has most of its original features - ornate plasterwork, ceiling cornices, period chimneypieces - and in particular, a fine original fanlight, one of only two of its kind on the square.

Accommodation includes two interconnecting reception rooms, a kitchen/breakfastroom in the return, four bedrooms and a front garden-level studio apartment.

A long back garden is well-landscaped and has a sunken brick and cobblelock patio opening off the house. There is potential, subject to planning permission, to convert a mews house at the back.

There is residents' disc car-parking at the front of the house. Belgrave Square is between the villages of Ranelagh and Rathmines, a short walk from the Luas and is within walking distance of Dublin city centre.