Grosvenor Road/€2.75 million:A five-bedroom terraced redbrick on a popular road in Rathmines is for sale by private treaty through Felicity Fox at €2.75 million.

Number 56 Grosvenor Road is one of those tall four-storey houses that promises good space for entertaining and bedrooms on two levels.

It's a handsome house in a terrace built in 1865 to a design by Alfred Gresham Jones who also designed the French embassy residence on Ailesbury Road.

It's an instantly appealing house with a wonderful light-filled hallway. A fine carved staircase draws the eye up two flights to the top of the house while straight ahead is a formal dining room which spans the back of the house. Double doors lead through to the drawingroom with its midnight blue walls and Victorian fireplace.

As with many a tall house, most of the family living goes on downstairs at garden level where there is an spacious livingroom to the front of the house, complete with marble fireplace, and an 18ft kitchen with oak fitted units and granite worktops. There is also a good sized utility room at this level and access to the courtyard style garden which has a pavedpatio with plenty of space for a table and chairs.

The first floor landing leads to the main bedroom suite, a tranquil cream painted and carpeted area that includes a spacious shower room and a sauna.

The second bedroom and family bathroom are also at this level, with three further bedrooms on the top floor, one of which is en suite.