Dublin 2/€1.5 million: A house built in 1847 with fine period details and lots of space is on the market with a €1.5 million guide. Rose Doyle reports

One of the six Victorian houses which make up a terrace on Upper Leeson Street, Dublin, 2, is for sale by private treaty at €1.5 million through Lisney. Number 68 Upper Leeson Street is part of an enclave of two-storey over basement houses set well back from the busy street.

The 2,500 sq ft (232 sq m) house has two reception rooms and three bedrooms on the ground and first floor levels and a further two bedrooms and livingroom in a self-contained garden level apartment.

The terrace was a gleam in a developer's eye as far back as 1837, when the site was marked down for the building of six houses. They were eventually built by Patterson Estates 10 years later, in l847.

The tall granite steps to the entrance door, which are shared with the neighbouring house, lead to a door with fanlight and decorative glass panels on either side.

Inside, the layout and intact decorative plasterwork are quintessentially of its period - as are the high ceilings, internal panelled doors, functioning sash windows with shutters, fireplaces, bannisters and an interesting barrel vault with skylight over the return landing. The entrance hallway has an arch with elaborate plasterwork leading to the return and stairs.

There are period fireplaces in each of the ground floor interconnecting living and diningrooms. The one in the front-facing livingroom has an original white marble surround with a more recent tile inset. This room also has a fine ceiling rose, cornicework and picture rail. An attractive wider than usual sash window looks out on to Leeson Street from this room.

The diningroom fireplace is black marble with tile inset and this room too has cornices, a picture rail and ceiling rose. The double doors between are panelled and original.

The small kitchen, which is on the return, has green-painted wall and floor units and a window over the rear garden. A side door leads to a wooden veranda which has steps down to the 80 ft-long rear garden.

The family bathroom is on the return as you go upstairs and has a door with a coloured glass panel inset. It has ochre tiling, a timber floor and a sash window overlooks the garden and a freestanding bath. The toilet is separate.

In the main bedroom, on the first floor landing to the front, there is another wide sash window and a painted stone period fireplace with tile inset. A second good-sized bedroom overlooks the rear garden and has a similar fireplace. The third bedroom on this floor has had a loft-bed space built in. There are separate front and back entrances to the garden apartment. All of the internal, timber doors have been stripped and polished.

There is a galley kitchen immediately inside the entrance door and an under-steps storage area. The front- facing livingroom has storage niches where a fireplace could be reactivated. One of the two bedrooms has a period fireplace and there is understairs storage. The internal entry point to the main house could be easily reopened. The 80 ft-long garden has a lawn and brick pathway. It also has a Barna shed, granite walls on either side, shrubs, holly trees and rear, pedestrian access. There is offstreet parking for three cars to the front.