A restored townhouse has an interior to set the heart racing, writes Eoin Lyons

With a guide price of €900,000 prior to auction through Felicity Fox on October 5th, 25 Camden Row should give heart palpitations to those who want to live in the city centre in a period house that is easy to manage, has plenty of space, a decent outdoor area and overall feeling of comfort.

A three-bedroom 19th century house, it extends to 143sq m (1,540sq ft). The current owners, an architect and his wife who works in the property business, are selling after seven years. They have carried out a meticulous overhaul that saw the building extended and the layout re-arranged.

The location is wonderful: Camden Row runs between Wexford Street and Heytesbury Street and living here provides a lifestyle that benefits from local shops, music venues and restaurants.

Although the immediate area is busy, little sound intrudes and the street is not usually a late night thoroughfare. The house backs onto Kevin Street DIT, which provides a measure of security.

Throughout the house, small details are so well conceived they make a big difference: joinery, plasterwork and other decorative details are exceptionally well finished.

The walls of the entrance hall are covered in red fabric and to the left is the livingroom with open fire, limestone hearth and high-corniced ceiling. The floor here is oak, as almost everywhere else in the house.

At the rear are the family room, kitchen and dining area. These are open-plan but subtly divided into distinct areas - the kitchen's maple units form a square of their own and the diningroom with exposed brick wall is reached through a wide opening.

A door from this room leads down a wood staircase to the large patio paved in sandstone with flowerbeds planted with exotic shrubbery.

Downstairs, reached from a staircase in the hall, there is a bathroom and three double bedrooms, one with an en suite, and another with a door to the patio. These are positioned around a central rectangular hall and the garden can be seen from every window that faces the rear. There is permit on-street car-parking.