Elegant proportions on Raglan Road

Dublin 4: €9m: This substantial three-storey house has excellent proportions, says Eivlín Roden

Currently run as a guest-house, number 10 Raglan Road will be auctioned on October 18th by Colliers Jackson-Stops. It has an AMV of €9m.

It is in a key position near the Clyde Road junction, and is one of a pair of semi-detached houses with plenty of off-street car-parking in front.

This two-storey over basement redbrick, measuring 440sq m (4,750sq ft), has a wide side garden leading through a pillared entrance to the original stone coach-house and 60ft back garden.

A gracious entrance, reached by a flight of granite steps, leads into a traditional interior with a Victorian layout. There are large reception rooms at hall level, five bedrooms opening off the first floor landing and an enormous garden level which easily houses a spacious kitchen, livingroom and several other rooms.

Both upper levels have particularly high and gracious proportions with two windows in the drawingroom and original white marble and black marble fireplaces in the reception rooms. All rooms on these levels, except the drawingroom, are en suite bedrooms, but none of the original features have been touched.

The windows are a particularly good feature and vary in shape from traditional sash to arched Venetian style.

The garden level has a separate hall door to the side of the house and accommodation of around 132sq m (1,416sq ft) consists of a large kitchen, breakfast room, two bedrooms, study and bathroom off a wide hall.

Outside, well maintained lawned gardens front and back include a wide gravelled driveway to the side giving parking space for six cars.