Unhurried redbrick near the city's rush

Dublin 6W/€725,000: Rose Doyle views a family home with plenty of period style and detail

Just 100 years old, number 28 Mount Tallant Avenue, Terenure Dublin 6W has all of the best features of its period and style intact.

Redbrick and terraced, it has marble or cast-iron fireplaces in most rooms, polished floorboards, panelled internal doors with knobs on, coving and picture rails. The mood in the three bedrooms, dormer/attic-style room and kitchen-breakfastroom which take up its 139 sq m (1,500 sq ft) of floor space is quite unhurried. Douglas Newman Good is to sell it by private treaty and is quoting a guide of €725,000.

The same agent recently sold the house next door, which needed substantial refurbishment, for a price in the region of €600,000.

The interconnecting reception rooms, courtesy of a glass door leading to the south-facing rear garden, appear longer than they are. Divided by a square arch, each has a similar black marble fireplace with decorative inlay, picture rail, polished floorboards, coving and centre roses.

The livingroom, which is to the front, has a deep bay window and timber presses as well as shelving to either side of the fireplace.

The floorboards have also been stripped and polished in the front part of the long, narrow hallway. Towards the rear of the house, in a section which is an addition to the original hallway, these are replaced by quarry tiles. Reclaimed from the kitchen, this end of the hallway has a good-sized guest toilet with wash-hand basin as well as understair storage and built-in utility area.

The kitchen/breakfastroom is a low room to the back of the house with a wood panelled ceiling and Velux window. It has a range of fitted units and vinyl floor covering. A glass panelled door leads to the rear garden.

The return has been completely given over to a family bathroom (once a bedroom) and separate shower room. The bathroom has a timber floor and large window overlooking the rear garden as well as a deep bath, wash-hand basin, separate shower and toilet. The shower room has a toilet, shower, wash-hand basin and small window.

A Velux window throws light onto the main, first floor landing from where a narrow, spiral staircase climbs to the dormer/attic room. The landing also gives access to the bedrooms, the main of which is to the front and has a bay window twinning with that in the sittingroom below. A cast-iron fireplace in this bedroom has ornate tile inset and there are extensive, repro-style built-in wardrobes.

A second bedroom has a window overlooking the rear garden and functioning cast-iron fireplace. The third, box bedroom is to the front and has a deep, built-in wardrobe.

Brick work on the chimney breast has been bared in the attic/dormer room. A large Velux gives views over the tree tops of Dublin 6W.

The south-facing garden has a raised, decking area and expanse of lawn with Barna shed. Beds along the sides have healthy fuschia and rose bushes and a door in the end wall gives access to a rear, vehicular access laneway. The railed front garden has been neatly landscaped with a pebble cover and low spreading evergreens.