Trading up: Johns Hill, Waterford €235,000

A very sympathetic, easy-on-the-eye restoration job has been done at 11 Eldon Terrace, in Waterford city.

Set high above the road - sort of over-basement, where there’s a lower hall entry point - this four-bed home dates back almost 150 years, to 1870.

With its rich, honeyed and polished wood floors and window shutters, as well as some stained glass features and old hall floor tiles, it wears it age with pride, and is described by selling agents REA O’Shea O’Toole as a lovely over-basement townhouse.

It’s a rare enough type, they stress, set about one kilometre from the city centre and they say it has been carefully conserved, yet upgraded with modern services, gas central heating etc.

Guide is €235,000.

There are inter-linked reception rooms, a formal dining room and a sitting room at ground level, with a living room and kitchen at lower ground level opening to a rear yard, with utility/pantry, plus guest loo.

The first floor has two bedrooms, plus shower room, and the top floor has two further bedrooms. Several rooms, including one or two bedrooms, have original fireplaces

There’s on-street parking in front with residents’ permit, and there’s a long rear garden with mature hedge boundaries up a few steps from the back year.

VERDICT: lovely period-feel rooms.