Old fashioned charm of redbrick on road to Dalkey

Co Dublin: €;3.25mUlverton House, a terraced double-fronted redbrick on the main road to Dalkey, Co Dublin, is distinguished by an original cast-iron lamp standard in its front garden.

The 244sq m (2,620sq ft) four-bedroom mid-Victorian house is for sale by private treaty through Sherry FitzGerald with an asking price of €3.25 million. Its two storeys are laid out in a simple and elegant way with four reception rooms downstairs and four bedrooms upstairs with a small fifth over the hall.

All the main rooms have gracious high-ceilinged proportions and large windows letting in lots of light front and back.

The house, dating from around 1864, has been a family home for more than 30 years and retains all the original features including fine fireplaces, window surround and panelled doors, wooden floors and stone flags in the utility room, once the kitchen.

To the right of the hall is a comfortable square livingroom with a big bay window and original black marble fireplace with tiled cast-iron inset.

The drawingroom and diningroom on the left of the hall interconnect through folding doors, making one beautiful 30ft long space. Decorated in palest pink, there are two lovely fireplaces, a window seat in the drawingroom bay and a large sash window to the back garden.

The inner hall is accessed by part-glazed double doors leading to the staircase and to the right the kitchen. This is the fourth room downstairs: it has a big sash window to the back patio, an Esse range, fitted units and a door to what is now a utility room, but is thought to have been an original cottage built before the house.

It has a stone-flagged floor and a steep staircase up to a loft study, low-ceilinged and compact with a window looking to the back garden and an iron fireplace.

The four bedrooms upstairs are all spacious square rooms flooded with light and all with cast-iron fireplaces, sash windows and working shutters. The fifth room above the hall door would make a gorgeous tiny retreat with its big window looking south and privacy secured by a large tree. Two spacious bathrooms are on separate returns.

Outside, the front garden has iron railings; at the back, an 84ft long garden, reached through granite arches, has two patios. There is also a garage to the rear.