Residential

House of the week: €2 million Dublin 6 Victorian home full of charm and character

Number 42 Belgrave Square West was the home of the late esteemed Irish painter Richard O’Neill and still possesses many characterful period details

Number 42 Belgrave Square West in Rathmines is a well-presented two-storey-over-basement home presented by Sherry Fitzgerald Rathmines at €2.05 million

Built around an original wasteland called Church Fields, the upmarket Belgrave Square in Rathmines in Dublin 6 was used for about 70 years as sports grounds by the students of the High School initially – when the school was based on Harcourt Street in Dublin 2, and then the Diocesan School for Girls from the early 1960s until it merged with the High School in the early 1970s.

42 Belgrave Square West, Rathmines, Dublin 6

Price: €2.05 million

Beds: four

BER: exempt

Agent: Sherry FitzGerald Rathmines at 01-4966066