With a pre-auction guide price of £650,000-plus, a terraced house at 31 Upper Leeson Street, Dublin 4, is undoubtedly going to attract interest among buyers in the market for an elegant townhouse in a great location.

For auction through Finnegan Menton on October 6th, the house requires extensive renovation.

Informally divided into several units, it needs a great deal of work to make it into the spectacular family home it could be. While houses in this condition are usually sold on the promise of their potential, viewers interested in Number 31 are in a very good position of being able to see exactly what it could look like because the house next door is also for sale and its owners have done a superb refurbishment. Number 31 was already in units when the current owner bought it 10 years ago. Most of the fireplaces are original and the numerous partitions seem to have been erected without damaging too much of the cornice-work.

Off the attractive hallway there is a fine reception room. On further down the hall, there is another reception room and beyond that at garden level there is a collection of small rooms.

On the first floor, what was once the formal livingroom has been divided into two rooms and there is also another room on this level. There are three rooms at the top of the house. It is a narrow, three-storey over basement house, so it is tall and elegant with a great deal of period charm and character. It also has extensive off-street parking. To the front it has a gravelled drive with space for at least two cars. As well as solving the parking problem, this means that that house is nicely set back from the road. At the end of its back garden it has rear access and more parking space.