NEW TO THE MARKET:A ONE-STOREY over basement house in Heytesbury Street, Dublin 8, would suit someone who likes period details but is prepared to strip off some wallpaper.

Number 44 is near the South Circular Road end of the street, opposite Synge Street School, and has interconnecting livingrooms on the upper floor: the front window overlooks the small garden on the street and the rear window (which has been painted to stained-glass effect) overlooks the good-sized west-facing back garden.

The house is for sale through agent Felicity Fox for €890,000.

In the upstairs livingrooms the original fireplaces are intact, with one in white stone and the other in black stone, with Kilkenny marble insets in each.

The sash windows up here come with the original shutters and the period doors have brass handles.

There is a room on the return, which could be a study or bedroom, and there are two more bedrooms downstairs.

The galley kitchen is to the street-side of the lower floor, running beneath the stone steps at the front of the house.

The bathroom is at the other end of the hall, beside the garden. Next to this is a glass-topped lean-to with an exposed stone wall that continues in from the garden to one side.

This is a typical house type of this area so will appeal to those who seek the neighbourhood and a period cottage, but they will need to do some work.

It would be possible to move in and strip it back, room by room (and hopefully you will discover the wide-plank floors, often found in this neighbourhood, beneath the carpet) and leave it at that.

But more substantial work could involve moving the kitchen upstairs for an open-plan living/dining area; maybe moving the bathroom beneath the front steps and reworking the lean-to and bathroom to the rear.

44 Heytesbury St, Dublin 8

House off Sth Circular Rd would suit makeover Agent: Felicity Fox