Dun Laoghaire/€2m: Persian rugs and Turkish wall hangings create a special atmosphere in a Victorian house, says Bernice Harrison

This is one of those rare cases where the owner really knows how to decorate to suit the atmosphere and age of their Victorian home. There are richly coloured Persian and Turkish wall hangings and rugs everywhere, pictures dot the walls in every room and the colours throughout are pleasantly faded and aged.

The exotically-named Mosaphir House on Corrig Road in Dún Laoghaire is for auction by Lisney on November 1st with an AMV of €2 million.

The double-fronted two-storey house was built in 1855 and its early Victorian builders appear to have given an appreciative nod to the Georgians, so the house is pleasantly geometric with four, large square-shaped principal rooms downstairs and four upstairs.

All have high ceilings, elegant proportions, working fireplaces and tall shuttered windows; downstairs the rooms have decorative plasterwork.

There are other rooms of course in this elegant 276sq m (2,970sq ft) house, and these are mostly in the return.

On the right-hand side off the wide hall are two reception rooms with a door linking the two. This single door was a late addition and new owners may either wish to put double doors in or, as the rooms are big enough anyway, block up the doorway.

On the other side of the hall, the reception room opens into a charming and atmospheric diningroom which in turn opens into the kitchen. This layout is clearly ideal for entertaining.

The kitchen is in the two-storey return - as are the two bathrooms upstairs - and these show the clearest signs of being refurbished. The large kitchen in particular was recently made over with new, white-painted timber units. The back door opens from the kitchen down to the secluded mature back garden. There's also a pantry down in the half basement.

Upstairs, one of the four large bedrooms opens into another room: this could either be transformed into an en suite, a dressingroom or indeed, a fifth bedroom.

This is a protected structure, so new owners will have to be mindful of this when seeking to do the necessary work.

The house is part of a terrace that effectively forms the fourth side of Croswaithe Park, so the upper windows overlook this pleasant green space. The front garden has pedestrian access and there is vehicular access around the back from Clarinda Park West.