Ranelagh: €1.65m With tall trees and tall houses, the Luas minutes away, green and playing fields all around, Park Drive in Ranelagh, Dublin 6 has a country feel.

For auction on June 9th with a guide of €1.65 million through joint agents Lisney and Youngs is Talardy, 40 Park Drive, a sizeable semi of 215sq m (2,314sq ft) with original features intact and unadorned.

No changes have been made to the original layout. There are six bedrooms, two reception rooms, a large kitchen needing complete refitting and an original sunroom. There's a sense of space throughout with high ceilings, a three-storey staircase and long double windows with decorative leaded panes. The hallway has all the grace and space of the Edwardian style.

Both the drawing and dining rooms have carved oak fireplaces with inset tiles. The rear diningroom leads into the sunroom with its sloping, glazed roof and views of the rather sombre, redbrick walls about the rear garden. A large, white-tiled chimney breast/cooker alcove is a feature of the kitchen which also has a walk-in pantry and scullery.

The main, first floor bedroom is to the front of the house and has views over Gonzaga College playing fields. A large room, with a uniquely ornate cast-iron fireplace, an en suite could easily take up a corner without taking away from its proportions.

Three of the other bedrooms have cast-iron fireplaces and the bathroom has an original, cast-iron free-standing bath.

The two bedrooms on the top floor have dormer windows with rooftop views across the city to Smithfield. An ante room on this floor has vaulted ceilings and a skylight.

A pear tree, orange blossom and shrubs grow around the sides of the the simple, lawned rear garden.