Dublin 4: A three-bedroom home at a 'destination address' for wealthy professionals has a €2.8m guide - plus the option to buy its mews, being auctioned simultaneously with a €750,000-plus guide. Orna Mulcahy reports

A terraced townhouse at 69 Wellington Road is likely to set a new record for the road when it is auctioned by Jackson-Stops on March 3rd.

The three-bedroom house carries a guide price of €2.8 million but the buyers will also have the option to buy the mews to the rear of the house, 69 Heytesbury Lane, which is being offered in the same auction session, also through Jackson-Stops, though it is owned separately.

The guide price for the two-bedroom mews is €750,000-plus.

Wellington Road is a destination address for wealthy professionals who want to live close to the city centre in considerable style. The wide tree-lined road has parking on either side, with off-street parking now forbidden to most of the houses.

Number 69 is all the better for not having parking within its Victorian railings. Instead, there's a long, elegant front lawn contained by box hedging that looks as though it has been clipped with a nail scissors.

A high flight of granite steps leads up to the front door and this opens into a grand hallway with decorative cornicing overhead. The immediate impression is of a fabulously well-kept house that's ideal for parties.

To the right is a superb double drawingroom, scented with clusters of hyacinths. The two rooms are divided by high folding doors, and each room has an impressive marble chimney piece.

Tall sash windows at either end of the room allow plenty of light through and frame views of the long and mature back garden and of the equally well-kept houses on the opposite side of the road.

A hundred people could gather for drinks in these rooms and not feel the crush. Steps lead down to a third reception room - a plush study or TV room with period-style glazed bookcases fitted on either side of a fireplace, and two windows to the side.

Beside this study is a door leading to a raised patio with steps leading down to the garden proper.

Number 69 is on the sunny side of the road, and with its stone boundary walls and long stretch of lawn, it's an impressively lush garden, even on a dreary day in February.

Downstairs, there is a big kitchen to the front of the house, with a door leading through to a fabulously atmospheric diningroom with glowing red walls and a fine open fireplace.

New owners may well want to convert this to a family room or playroom, but if you love entertaining, then you won't change a thing.

At the back of the hall at this level is a utility area, storage, and a guest toilet, with enough wall space to take all the family photographs.

There is a large family bathroom on the first floor return, with the bath taking centre stange. Upstairs, the main bedroom, which overlooks the back garden, has its own en suite bathroom.

The two remaining bedrooms, both of which overlook the street, are elegantly decorated rooms.

There's about 278 sq m (3,000 sq ft) in all so it's not an enormous house at the price. However, there is some scope for extension at the back and a look right and left from the back garden will show the kind of extensions that neighbours have been allowed.

However, should the mews be reunited with the house, new owners will have a lot more space to play with.

The two-storey mews, has 98 sq m (1,060 sq ft) with a large livingroom-cum-diningroom leading to a conservatory on the ground floor and two bedrooms, one en suite, and a bathroom upstairs. There is offstreet parking in front and a sizeable back garden.

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