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.