Three terraced houses in Ballsbridge have been refurbished by the company that used them as offices for over 40 years, writes ORNA MULCAHY, Property Editor.

WHEN THE engineering company Arup moved to brand new offices in Ringsend last year, it put its Ballsbridge HQ on the market - comprising several period houses on Wellington Road with mews houses to the rear.

While part of the portfolio was sold, the core offices were not, and so Arup has restored them as family homes and placed them back on the market. Sales agent Colliers Jackson-Stops is now offering 8 Wellington Road, a terraced house in pristine decorative order, for €5 million. Next door, numbers 10 and 12 are for sale at €7 million a piece. Both houses have long gardens and their original coach-houses, which accounts for the higher values.

Dating from the 1830s, these are handsome period houses that had been kept in immaculate structural order by Arup.

Number 8 has a spacious 353sq m (3,802sq ft) with two superb interconnecting rooms at hall level, and a series of clean empty spaces envisaged as at least four bedrooms with a kitchen and family room at garden level.

Number 12 has some fine original features including fireplaces and ornate ceiling cornices. Number 10, which is still being refurbished, will have a similar layout of about three large rooms per floor.

Long gardens and pretty coach-houses of approximately 74sq m (800sq ft) each complete the package. Peter Kenny is handling enquiries for all three properties.

8, 10, 12 Wellington Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

Formerly the offices of Arup, these three houses, which date from the 1830s, have been restored for residential use

Agent:Colliers Jackson-Stops