Dublin 6: A five-bedroom period residence with a 100-foot back garden situated on one of Dublin's most desirable streets is guiding €2.75 million. Bernice Harrison previews the house.

Number 34 Palmerston Road has been lived in as a busy family home for the past 15 years.

Now that their four boys are adults the family is moving from the two-storey over basement redbrick to a more manageable house. It is for auction on November 20th by Douglas Newman Good with a guide price of €2.75 million.

When the owners bought the 310 sq m (3,240 sq ft) house it was in flats and they have reworked the layout twice since they moved in as their needs changed.

It has five bedrooms, two at garden level, the rest on the first floor.

Originally there would have been two grand reception rooms off the hall, but now the back room is a very spacious and well laid-out kitchen that interconnects with the formal livingroom to the front and a conservatory that the owners added on at the back.

Lack of access from the kitchen area down to the back garden is something new owners are likely to reconsider.

Upstairs the three bedrooms are doubles. A bedroom at the back of the house was converted to provide the main bedroom with a large en suite bathroom and dressingroom. There is a shower room in the first floor return. The garden level has two large bedrooms and both share a shower room.

There is also another shower room at this level. The bedroom at the back of the house has access to the back garden through patio doors. There is access to this level from the front of the house and this opens into a lobby and then a small livingroom.

A large utility room opens out on to the 100 ft back garden. The original coach-house has been converted into a games room with a shower room.

There is also a large glazed shed and there is vehicular access to the garden.

At the front the garden has been partially paved to make way for parking for two cars (or three at a squeeze).