Cabinteely: €1.5mKilbogget House is a large early Georgian listed house set incongruously in the middle of a subruban housing estate in Cabinteely, Dublin 18.

And although it is not what most buyers in search of a period house would expect, it has been a comfortable family home for its present owners for the past four years. The 650 sq m (7,000 sq ft) 10-bedroom property in Shrewsbury Wood is being sold by private treaty through Sherry FitzGerald for €1.5 million.

Originally a farmhouse on 600 acres when it was built in 1769, the current house is an addition built in 1830. A villa-style house of one storey over garden level accommodation, it has many fine period features - original polished floorboards, a spacious entrance hall, fine cornicing in one of the two large bright reception rooms off the hall, original sash windows with working shutters and shutters on the inner front door.

Kilbogget House has been modernised and there is a bright modern kitchen at the rear of the ground floor, where the large main bedroom and two smaller bedrooms are located. But it needs redecoration and renovation, especially downstairs, where most of the bedrooms (and more bathrooms and another kitchen and a lovely brick-vaulted wine cellar) are.

Owned by the Roderick family for most of its history, it was bought in the 1960s by Ursuline sisters. Cabinteely Community School, which backs on to Shrewsbury Wood, grew out of the school they ran.

The house has a relatively small garden, but sits on part of a green space surrounded by over a dozen houses built in the early 1990s in this quiet cul-de-sac off Johnstown Road before the junction with the N11. It might be suitable for conversion into apartments, or possibly for use as a nursing home - or it could simply suit a large family who want plenty of room to spread out.