A Renovated Rowhouse in Antwerp

$1.5 MILLION (1.35 MILLION EUROS)

This four-bedroom townhouse is on a tree-lined avenue in the upscale neighborhood of Markgrave, about two miles south of the historic center of Antwerp, Belgium.

Built in 1912 and renovated in phases through 2017, the 4,300-square-foot house has a mansard roof, terraces in the front and back, and a brick-walled backyard adjacent to a public park. Though it is four stories tall, the house actually has seven split levels, with rooms in the front and back separated by half levels and a staircase in the center of the house running between them.

“They don’t build it like that anymore,” said Henriette Siersema, the managing director of Sotheby’s International Realty in Antwerp, which has the listing.

Past the small front garden and a black front door is a long entrance hall with Belgian bluestone floors that stretches to the rear of the house. To the right are the living room, a sitting room with a chandelier and the dining room, all with oak parquet floors. The living room is entered through large, wood-framed glass doors, with built-in bookshelves on either side of a fireplace, the original ornamental plaster ceiling and a front-facing bay window.