An inner-city cottage at 16 Reginald Square, Dublin 8, is for sale by Gunne with a guide of £160,000. While it is now accurate to describe this small house in the Liberties as a cottage, it in fact started life as two cottages in the small enclave of houses off Gray Street. The owners knocked them both together to create a single two-bedroom home.

The house now, unusually, has two very large reception rooms. The first of these reception rooms is inside the front door, and is linked to the other via double doors. The ceilings follow the roof line, which gives the reception rooms a loftiness not normally found in single-storey cottages.

In the corner of each reception room is a bedroom, both of which are very small. They do, however, have the same high ceilings as the livingrooms. One of the livingrooms features a wood-burning stove, the other an open fireplace. The larger bedroom has been smartly designed so that there is a platform bed very high off the ground, accessed by a ladder. This arrangement makes room for a large wardrobe underneath. The second bedroom is a small single.

At the back of the house, there are extensions on either side of the small enclosed yard. The one on the left houses the compact kitchen, while the one on the right is home to the shower and lavatory. Both the kitchen and the bathroom open out on to the yard, which is attractively planted with a whole range of flowering shrubs and plants.

The house benefits from being at the end of a terrace by being relatively private, and has its own parking space and room for tubs of plants outside the front door.