Park yourself in Terenure for €1.39m

An imposing house built in 1870, the entrance hallway of 77 Terenure Road East gives a sweeping view through a traditional plaster arch to the breakfast/family room and, beyond, to the high evergreens and stone walls of the rear garden. It makes for an impressive entry to a house that has many fine features.

Not the least of these are the formal, ground-floor interconnecting reception rooms with their front-facing curve of shuttered bay windows, polished timber floors and soaring, ornately plastered ceilings. Both rooms have period-style fireplaces with gas insets; white marble in the front drawing room, a more interesting dark, dappled marble version in the rear dining room.

Agent Sherry FitzGerald is asking €1.395 million. The floor area covers 240sq m (2,583sq ft) and there are five bedrooms, two reception rooms, kitchen/breakfast/family room, utility and two bathrooms. There is a garage and vehicular access to the rear of a garden with water feature, pathway, lawn and side decking area. The stone walls are original, the high evergreens and geranium so much a part of things that they too might well be original.

A cast-iron fireplace in a corner of the rear, light-filled family room wall is a nice touch. Part of an open-plan rear extension, the floor is of polished oak and a large picture window overlooks the garden. Worktops in the ceramic tiled kitchen/breakfast room are an interesting rust-coloured polished granite. A utility room extends to the side.

The main bedroom is overhead, on the first return. A large room, it has a couple of windows overlooking the garden and a walk-in wardrobe. A bathroom, with free-standing bath, is also on the return. The stair and landing carpet has a lush, period feel that follows into a second, rear bedroom off the first-floor landing which has a cast-iron fireplace.

A third, front-facing bedroom has a bay window and a smaller bedroom might more fittingly make a dressing room, or study. A fourth, single bedroom has fitted wardrobes. There is a second bathroom and fifth bedroom on the second-floor return. The front of the house has enough off-street parking for several cars.