Dublin 2/€5m: A townhouse on Baggot Street could suit wealthy buyers who want to ditch the car and walk to work. Property Editor Orna Mulcahy reports

One of the last inhabited houses, number 72, on Lower Baggot Street in Dublin 2 is likely to fetch over €5 million when it is auctioned by Lisney on September 28th.

The four-storey over garden level terraced house close to Baggot Street bridge has been home for many years to dentist Frank Doyle who runs his practice from the first floor. While the surgery is thoroughly up to date, the remaining rooms of the tall terraced redbrick have an old world feel, from the tobacco-coloured entrance hall with its original brass rail designed to hold horse blankets to the fine first floor drawingroom overlooking the street.

There's 392sq m (4,200sq ft) of living space in the house including a self-contained flat in the basement. The two-storey mews house has three small bedrooms, and rear access onto a laneway. It comes with two parking spaces.

The house is flanked by offices but with more and more Georgians reverting to residential use in town, number 72 might well be bought by a family who want to escape from the suburbs.

It's a house that will gobble money in refurbishment, but on the plus side, it has kept many of its original features including fine plasterwork and fireplaces.

There are two reception rooms at hall level and a small kitchen in the return along with access to the garden.

On the first return, a delightful landing leads to a vintage style bathroom Upstairs the drawingroom runs across the front of the house with the surgery behind. The second floor has three bedrooms, while the top floor, accessed via a narrow staircase, has two further rooms along with a kitchen and bathroom.