Terraced Ranelagh redbrick expected to top £450,000

Moyne Road is considered one of the best addresses in Ranelagh, Dublin 6, and its terraced redbrick houses have risen rapidly in value over the last two or three years.

Sherry FitzGerald expects over £450,000 for a three-bedroom house at 82 Moyne Road when it is auctioned on November 3rd. Earlier this year, a similar terraced house on the road sold privately for £500,000 and 12 months ago Number 81, a terraced house in good decorative order, fetched £415,000 under the hammer.

Number 82 is in very good condition - the present owners moved there only five years ago. They bought it from antiques dealer Paul Cooke, which accounts for the house's most unusual feature - its period sanitary ware, all of which dates from the end of the last century. The downstairs lavatory has an elaborate blue-and-white pattern, as does the one in the main bathroom which also has a copper cistern.

This bathroom, in the upstairs return, features one of those extraordinary enclosed Victorian showers with its original brass taps and dinner plate-size brass showerhead. There is also a large antique claw-foot bath, which is free standing. The house is being sold as a three-bed, but new owners will have the option to use it as a four-bed. The extra potential bedroom is the formal upstairs drawing-room, which runs the width of the house at the front. This would make a very grand main bedroom. It has its original ornate fireplace.

There is another large double bedroom on this level and there are two more bedrooms - a double and a single - up a further flight of stairs at the back of the house. Downstairs there is a nicely proportioned living-room at the front of the house off a wide hallway. The second reception room has been turned into a large, square-shaped kitchen, with units on two walls, a dining area in the middle and French doors out to the garden. The owners have also installed a gas-fired stove, which is the focal point of the room.

There is a large utility room in the return, where the kitchen is usually located in houses of this type. However the room seems slightly wasted on the laundry - it would make a really good home office. There seems to be little decorating to be done, as the current owners repainted the rooms and stripped and polished all the floorboards.

The back garden has been imaginatively landscaped and is on two levels. The railed front garden is similarly attractive.