Stylish Rathgar redbrick on tree-lined road

Dublin 6: €1.25m: Grosvenor Road swings in a wide curve from the Rathmines end to the main Rathgar Road.

The long tree-lined road was built on at different times during the 19th century as the house styles differ widely. Number 32, a tall two-storey, over garden semi-detached house is at the Rathgar Road end - the view out its back windows is the side of the Church of the Three Patrons. The house is for auction through Sherry FitzGerald on March 16th with a guide of €1.25 million.

The owners bought it six years ago and had to do little to make it the warm, stylish house it is now. It's a large house at 185 sq m (1,991 sq ft) and most space is given over to living areas - there are only three bedrooms.

It's a very bright house with an elegant hall opening into interconnecting reception rooms. Here, as in all the rooms in the house, the shutters on the sash windows are in working order. Other original features include polished timber flooring, marble fireplaces and decorative cornice work.

Downstairs at garden level there are two rooms, the eat-in kitchen to the front, a family room to the back. Double doors open out onto the back garden. There is access to the front of the house under the granite steps and a door to the back garden.

Upstairs there are three bedrooms, two large doubles, one smaller one. There are two bathrooms, one a guest wc in the hall floor return and the other a small family bathroom at the top of the house in the first floor return.

The back garden is south-facing with back access and a covered side passage for storage. There is on-street parking.