Limerick: €850,000Limerick estate agent O'Connor Murphy Gubbins is seeking over €850,000 for a large family home along one of the top residential avenues in Limerick city.

The solid six-bedroom Edwardian home at 6 Verona Villas is at the leafy residential end of O'Connell Avenue. It is within five minutes' walk of the city centre and close to a range of top schools.

Verona Villas covers a short stretch of O'Connell Avenue where most of the large period houses have been owned for generations by the same families.

The house has retained its period flavour even though it has been upgraded and modernised to provide comfortable living. Yet, in atmosphere, it is more Victorian than anything, a judgment reinforced by a gracious hallway with intricate plaster work on the ceilings and a staircase that rises to the first of two upper floors.

The hallway opens into a fine drawingroom with good proportions and a broad bay window. The original marble fireplace is still used even though the oil-fired central heating keeps the place warm. Double doors open into a diningroom which has matching wooden floors and another original fireplace.

Most of the activity in the house centres around the kitchen which doubles as a breakfastroom. At one end there is an oil-fired Aga - at the other a relatively new range of wall and floor units with integrated electrical appliances and granite worktops. There is a washroom and toilet to the side and a private rear yard for car-parking which is reached off a side road.

The house has six bedrooms in all, four en suite. Three of the large double bedrooms and a single are on the first floor. A separate stairs leads up to two further bedrooms which share a bathroom.