DUBLIN 6: €1.25MTHE TERRACE at Sandford Road – with its distinctive Tudor-inspired decorative timbering – is one of the most unusual groups of houses in Ranelagh.

Built in 1905, just a few years after the building which became Sandford Park school was completed, the houses are made up of detached and semi-detached versions all with the same Edwardian interior details.

Number 19 is now for sale through Lisney with an asking price of €1.25 million.

It’s an executor’s sale and the owners lived there since the 1950s, bringing up a family in the large five-bedroom house with 208sq m (2,245sq ft) of space.

They didn’t do too much modernising in that time so new owners will be buying the house in pretty much original condition – making the asking price in this market seem on the strong side.

Downstairs there are two interconnecting rooms, divided by sliding doors.

Unusually, both have bay windows, the back bay has double doors out to the garden.

There’s an old-fashioned kitchen and a scullery with a side passage giving access to the front of the house.

New owners will almost certainly extend and modernise this entire area.

There are two floors upstairs with four fine sized double bedrooms, a single bedroom and a small study.

The bathroom is small and could do with updating and new owners might prefer to turn one of the bedrooms into a bathroom.

It’s on the main road so off-street car-parking is important and there is room for one car although most of the neighbours in the terrace have gravelled over their front gardens almost entirely to enhance the parking.

The back garden, which is not overlooked, is around 23 metres long (76ft) and was clearly the passion of its owner as it is beautifully planted with all manner of shrubs, flowers and trees.