It’s one of the grandest old Victorian period houses in Galway, right in the heart of the Cresent – equidistant to the city centre and Salthill – and it’s ripe either for conversion into a magnificent family home or the start of another chapter at the core of the city’s legal and medical quarter.

Constructed in the early 19th century and listed on the Record of Protected Structures, 9 the Crescent is one of fourteen in a terrace of houses of what was originally known as Palymra Crescent.

A stately terrace located between Sea Road and Saint Mary’s Road, the Crescent accommodates solicitor and doctors’ offices and number nine was used as solicitors’ offices up until recently.

However, the properties are being transformed as residential homes.

Number 9 the Crescent has been maintained by the current owners and presented with many period characteristics still intact – including vaulted ceilings with decorative cornicing, tall sash windows and shutters, and marble and cast-iron fireplaces.

Consisting of approximately 314 sq.m with two storeys over a basement, 9 the Crescent offers ample accommodation throughout and is a blank canvas for the imaginative buyer.

The entrance level has two large reception rooms off the entrance hall, both with beautiful fireplaces and tall sash windows allowing lots of natural light.

Off the rear hall, is another office overlooking the rear garden, two separate toilets with wash hand basins, and another two rooms.

A stairs leads from this hall down to the basement level with rear garden access.

On this level, there are three good sized rooms, with a separate kitchen, storage room and shower room. The front room has an entrance porch giving access to steps out to the front garden.

The first floor of the house is arranged off a split-level landing, with four rooms to the front. Two of those being sizeable rooms with fireplaces and tall sash windows overlook the front garden.

The rear of this landing has another two rooms with tall sash windows allowing lots of natural light.

Externally this Victorian home is equally impressive.

Accessible via the cast-iron gate and stone-wall frontage, the front garden is encompassed by mature greenery with a long pathway allowing the residence to avail of plenty of privacy for a city locale.

Situated at the bottom of Taylor’s Hill, the Crescent has long been one of Galway City’s most sought after residential addresses and a landmark location with tree-lined surroundings and walking distance to everything Galway is famous for.

This would be the perfect home for anybody looking to avail of city living at its finest in a period-style property rare to Galway, with ample accommodation, internally and externally.

Price is available on application; to arrange viewing, contact O’Donnellan & Joyce on 091-564212, or properties can be viewed on their website www.odj.ie.

Pictured: The exterior of 9 The Crescent.