Restored D6 redbrick

Ranelagh: €1.35mEven people familiar with Northbrook Road in Ranelagh might not immediately know where to find Osborne Terrace. That's because it is made up only two houses at the Ranelagh Road end of the leafy street and the pair, unlike other houses on the road, are simple two-storey Victorians without basements.

Number 2 Osborne Terrace changed hands around four years ago and at the time was in need of complete renovation. The current owners did just that and now the three-bedroom redbrick is in walk-in condition. It will be auctioned by Sherry FitzGerald on February 9th with a guide price of €1.35 million.

This house will have strong appeal for both trader-uppers looking to move from smaller houses in the area or, as it is in walk-in condition, for those seeking to trade down without the hassle of getting builders in.

The owners both renovated and extended so that the house now has 193 sq m (2,077 sq ft) with very good living accommodation and three large double bedrooms. A forth bedroom was sacrificed to create a good-sized bathroom. They kept everything simple, retaining period features and decorating with white walls and either new oak floors or stripped and polished pine.

At hall level - and it is a wide, bright hall - there is a reception room to the front with a cast-iron fireplace and oak flooring. The back reception room now opens into an attractive pitched-roof extension, which makes for a spacious dining area off the well-planned kitchen. Floor-to-ceiling, extra wide glazed sliding doors provide access to the back garden. The kitchen has been fitted with simple, contemporary styled cupboards topped with a granite worktop.

The best bedroom is the main bedroom, which runs the width of the front of the house. Carving an en suite out of these rectangular-shaped rooms can be awkward but the architect on this renovation has done a neat job creating a small en suite shower room and a deep wardrobe at one end of the room. The other bedrooms are to the back of the house and are both large doubles with original cast-iron fireplaces. The bathroom is in the first floor return. The gardens at the front and back are both around 10 metres long and, as this is a semi-detached, house there is a side entrance. There is on-street car-parking.