1 Wellington Road, Dublin 4: house with lift has commercial potential, but is likely to be bought by family

The large walled back garden is laid out with rockeries, flowering trees, herbaceous borders and a Jasmine-covered stone shed. Campanula flourishes

A six-bedroom early Victorian house on Wellington Road, new to the market with Lisney, is guiding £1.5 million prior to auction on February 14th.

Number 1 is an end-terrace redbrick house set well back from the traffic at the Pembroke Road end of Wellington Road. With 3,700 sq ft of living space, this is one of the larger houses on the road and benefits from a much wider garden and side access. While a new owner will undoubtedly upgrade the interior, the house has been well cared for by the family who have lived here for over 20 years.

The original period features are in good condition, colours are rich and the house has the carelessly elegant look of a period film set.

Although the house has obvious commercial potential and there is an elevator in working order, Lisney expects the eventual buyer to be a well-off family looking for a substantial town residence. Two smaller houses on the road sold after auction late last season for slightly less than the guide for this much more spacious house.

Number 1 has good off-street parking and an integral garage which leads through to a westfacing back garden.

Dating from around 1840, the house has tall Georgian style windows which provide good natural light. The reception hall is wide, with parquet flooring and a magnificent corniced ceiling. This opens out to an inner hall with a cloakroom and the lift. An elegant drawingroom has two Georgian windows overlooking the front garden. The decorative cornicing is eyecatching and there is a fine marble chimneypiece with brass inset. Double doors open to the diningroom, also with ornate plasterwork and a large picture window which frames the back garden. The kitchen, currently at this level and in reasonable working order, will probably be returned to its original position below stairs by a new owner. A guest toilet is off a quarry-tiled rear lobby which has a door to the back garden.

The cluster of rooms at garden level could be opened out to create a wonderful kitchen and family living area. At the moment, there is a bright sittingroom, kitchenette and bathroom to the front and two bedrooms to the rear, one currently used as a study.

Upstairs, there is a bathroom and chintzy double bedroom on the return and three further bedrooms on the first floor. The main bedroom has two Georgian style windows, decorative ceiling work and a beautiful Bossi-style marble fireplace.

The single bedroom next door would make a perfect en suite. Another double room to the back has built-in wardrobes.

The 45 ft by 58 ft walled back garden is laid out with rockeries, flowering trees, herbaceous borders and a Jasmine-covered stone shed. Campanula has been allowed to flourish between the paving stones on a large westfacing terrace.