Dublin 6: €1.45m A fine redbrick on Grosvenor Road has been carefully restored, writes Rose Doyle

Grosvenor Road, Dublin 6 is at its best this time of year; trees in leaf and gardens a-bloom. A long and winding road, halfway between Rathmines and Rathgar, its redbrick Victorian houses vary in size and styles.

Three storeys and at the end of a terrace, number 30 Grosvenor Road was built in 1864, has a front sweep of granite steps and a bright, carefully refurbished interior with fine plasterwork and original fireplaces in most rooms.

HOK Residential will be selling it at auction on July 14th and is guiding €1.45 million.

The layout is much as it was originally with over 230sq m (2,477sq ft) of floor space, four bedrooms, three reception rooms, kitchen/breakfastroom and, on the first floor return, a vestibule lit by a long, decorative glass window. The word locally is that number 30 and its neighbour were given by the builder as homes to his daughters. Backing this theory is a door-sized alcove on the vestibule which may originally have allowed access between the houses.

Ceilings, which are as high in the bedrooms are they are in the ground floor reception rooms, are a notable feature. The sash windows throughout have been rebuilt rather than replaced.

The cornicing and centre roses in the main reception rooms are brought into relief against walls of a deep, dusky pink with touches of gold highlighting the ceiling roses. The deep, bay window to the front has working shutters (as do most windows), and original marble fireplaces in each room.

A traditional arch halfway along the entrance hallway nicely frames both the return/vestibule and inner hallway. The vestibule has interesting plasterwork in which benign rats gambol in ivy. There is a green and beige-tiled family bathroom off the vestibule.

The first floor landing has an old-style skylight and leads to two front bedrooms and the rear, main bedroom. All have cast-iron fireplaces.

The fourth, smallish bedroom is on the lower return while the kitchen/breakfastroom and a family room are on the garden level. A kitchen and entrance hallway have restored flagstones while the original stove/cooker in the kitchen is a definite feature; wide, shining black, and set into a granite niche and oozing a sense of purpose. A split-level, paved and planted patio to the rear has high walls and gives access to Leicester Avenue.