RATHMINES: €1.9M:NEW OWNERS of a sizeable two-storey over garden level house on Belgrave Road in Rathmines, Dublin 6 will have plenty of work to do converting the house back from offices to a home. However, one thing they certainly won't lack will be Victorian detail.

Number 3 Belgrave Road has a terrific entrance hall with a high domed ceiling with elaborate plasterwork and ceiling rose, while the principal rooms have tall windows and more ornate cornicing.

The house is for sale at €1.9 million through Douglas Newman Good.

The price could be considered on the high side, but it reflects the fact that the 39.4-metre (130ft) back garden with rear access offers scope for mews development subject to planning permission.

It’s a spacious house of 232sq m (2,500sq ft) with the impressive domed hallway leading through to an inner hall from which are located the two main reception rooms.

The drawingroom to the front is an airy well proportioned room while the rear-facing reception room is slightly narrower in layout.

There is a third room on the return.

The ground floor has two similarly large rooms and a kitchen with access to the front garden. There is also a bathroom at this level.

There is potential for three bedrooms on the upper floors with the first of these on the return above the entrance hallway and two large rooms, one of which has been partitioned into two, on the top floor. There is also a traditional little bathroom at the very top of the house.

In the past the house would have attracted builders keen to develop the garden, fix up the house and sell both on. With virtually no demand from this kind of investor now, number 3 awaits a buyer who simply wants to do up a home.

3 Belgrave Road, Rathmines, Dublin 6

Large period house previously used as offices with 130ft rear garden with potential

Agent: Douglas Newman Good