This elegant terraced period home, overlooking a quiet tree-lined section of Dublin's Grand Canal, benefits from a separate selfcontained garden level comprising seven rooms, including a kitchen and shower room that could be let as office space providing an annual rental income of 26,000.

Laid out over three floors and extending to 235sq m, No 21 benefits from full refurbishment yet still retains a lot of its original period features, including decorative cornicing, polished pine flooring, arched windows and original fireplaces.

The property is entered via an imposing flight of granite steps through to an entrance hall, interconnecting drawing and dining room and rear hall leading to an interconnecting kitchen and breakfast room, with french doors out onto a balcony overlooking the garden. On the first floor return is a utility and family bathroom.

There are three bedrooms on the first floor.

The master is en-suite. The front of the property is bordered by cast-iron railings and box hedging. To the rear is a private south-facing garden featuring a beautiful Indian sandstone dining terrace.

Price: 3.25m Agent: McNally Handy, 01-661 2003