Porter Square townhouse starts with a garage, goes up from there

The 1,315-square-foot, three-level townhouse at 8 Mount Vernon Street in Cambridge’s Porter Square area starts with a garage that leads directly into the basement and the laundry room and goes way up from there.

The contemporary spread—on sale now through Coldwell Banker for $1.2 million—features soaring ceilings that shoot through to a lofty main bedroom suite with its own deck (there are three bedrooms total).

There is also a fenced-in patio and, for good measure, another outside parking space.