Anglesea Road: €1.7m A pair of fine family homes just around the corner from each other in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 offer period and contemporary styles. Edel Morgan reports

From the outside number 29 Anglesea Road in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 looks like a handsome but unremarkable redbrick.

Inside, however, it is consistently impressive.

The five-bedroom house is being auctioned through Sherry FitzGerald on May 26th. The guide price is €1.7 million.

The entrance hall has fine proportions, rich period detail and a muted colour scheme.

In the drawingroom, stained glass panels in the bay window add colour to an otherwise understated room.

The diningroom is an elegant space with a small sunroom off it leading to the garden.

The kitchen has a country house feel with an Aga, Belfast sink and cream units.

All of the bedrooms are doubles and two are en suite. There is also a toilet and bathroom with a roll top bath.

Off-street car-parking is provided on a paved forecourt and there is a side gate to a rear 110ft back garden.

It has paved patio steps to another patio with a water feature. The rest is lawn bordered by mature trees and shrubs.

There are three block-built garden sheds.