Pretty period family home on Clarinda

DUN LAOGHAIRE €1.95M:Built around 1850, number 18 Clarinda Park East in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin has 334sq m (3,600sq ft) of flexible family space.

The five-bedroom house it is on the market through Douglas Newman Good for €1.95 million.

The railed front garden has a flagstone patio area and granite steps up to the front door. The hall is a dazzling spectacle with black and white tiled floor and a sunshine yellow ceiling fringed with ornate white cornicing .

The most impressive of the house's many reception rooms are the two formal interconnecting ones at entrance level with dark aubergine walls, original timber floors, ornate plaster cornicing and black marble fireplaces with open fires. The front room has a bay window - with its original shutters - overlooking Clarinda Park while the connecting room has views over to Scotsman's Bay.

At garden level there's an oak kitchen with a Stanley range which also heats basement radiators. Large folding double doors open to a familyroom with a marble fireplace, open fire, tiled floors and a double doors to a patio. The agents say that the laundry room at this level is big enough, subject to planning permission, to convert to a sixth bedroom "ideal for a nanny". There is also a study/playroom at garden level, a shower room,and a double bedroom with an en suite.

On the first floor return there is another double room with large bay window and en suite bathroom. The main landing has two double bedrooms, one main bedroom, which is again en suite. On the second floor return there is a fifth double bedroom and a large family bathroom

Parking is on-street with resident and visitor permits.

To the rear there is a large flagstone patio area with block-built shed with washing machine and drier and rear pedestrian access.

18 Clarinda Park East , Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin

A five bedroom period house that extends over 334 sq m (3,600sq ft)

Agent: Douglas Newman Good