Dublin 2/€2.5m-plus: A Georgian terraced house at 2 Mount Street Crescent, overlooking the Pepper Canister church by the Grand Canal, is expected to fetch over €2.5 million at auction through Lisney on July 1st. Orna Mulcahy reports.

The 1830s house - the last on the terrace to be occupied as a family home - has around 342 sq m (3680 sq ft) of living space and a surprisingly peaceful back garden. To the rear is a mews house, with direct access to Stephen's Lane and parking for three cars.

Home to the same owners for the last 40 years, this is a tremendously stylish house where one overlooks creaking floors and flaking paintwork to focus on the fine plasterwork, tall Georgian windows, elegant fireplaces and a life's collection of art, furniture and books.

With more and more Georgian house on nearby Fitzwilliam and Merrion Squares reverting to residential use, there is a ready market for a townhouse like this, with its garden intact, and enough space both for family life and some commercial use. The two-storey mews could be redeveloped as offices or a separate house.

A tall flight of granite steps leads to the front door with a view over the railings to a charming patio garden below - where there is a separate entrance to a ground level apartment.

Inside, the gracious light-filled hallway leads to two rooms on the left - a diningroom to the front and a kitchen that overlooks the back garden. Upstairs, there is a study on the return, and elegant interconnecting reception rooms on the first floor.

The second floor has three bedrooms and there is a bathroom on the top return.

A utility room with a door to the garden leads off the rear hallway, while the ground floor is currently arranged as a self-contained one-bedroom apartment with a large bright sittingroom overlooking the front garden.