Address: 9 Wasdale Park, Terenure, Dublin 6

Agent: Sherry FitzGerald Terenure

There’s a 51ft garden behind this four-bedroom semi-D off Bushy Park Road. The 143sq m (1,539sq ft) home – with embedded garage – has two interconnecting reception rooms with floor-to-ceiling patio doors in the dining area opening to the garden; the kitchen/breakfast room beside it also looks on to the garden. There’s a wc at this level too. Upstairs are four bedrooms, a bathroom and wc. The garden comprises a lawn with flower beds. BER: F

Plus: Lovely 1930s design in good area

Minus: It would be lovely to open the whole of the back of the house to the garden by connecting the garden-side rooms

Address: Wyanstown House, Togher, Drogheda, Co Louth

Agent: Gallagher property

On an acre of gardens, with a coach house to the front, this 1890s house has original features such as cornicing, fireplaces and sash windows. Accommodation in the five-bedroom house includes three reception rooms, a kitchen/dining area and wc on the ground floor. Upstairs are five bedrooms, with an anteroom off one of them, and a bathroom. Outside, along with the coachhouse, are stables and other outhouses. It is 1.5 miles from Port Beach, 10 miles from Drogheda, near the M1.

Plus: Lovely proportions with deep windows, and a sylvan setting

Minus: There has been an outbreak of knotty tongue-and- groove timber walls in some of the rooms