Ashmead Road, St. John’s

£1,295,000

Architecturally-optimised bay-fronted Victorian terrace delivered over 1717 square feet (excluding your handy cellar) and three floors; inclusive of a smart loft conversion. Chain free!

You have four bedrooms and three bathrooms, plus a downstairs w.c. and a sizeable independent utility room (off your huge kitchen/dining room). A sunny SW-facing garden of over 40 feet completes the package.

Find this thoroughly and thoughtfully treated modernised period home in the exclusive St John’s Conservation Area, which adjoins Brookmill CA. Popular Ashmead Primary School is a two minute walk away, on your side of the street (3-11).

And you are just a four minute walk from St John’s Station (Zone 2)/15 minutes from Elverson Road and Deptford Bridge DLR stations. Blackheath, Greenwich, New Cross and Lewisham are all easily walkable.

We love the old-fashioned street lamps and all round leafiness of this locale. The envied road is of the pretty, tree-lined and residential variety, and is a one-way (and a 'school street'). It is a genuinely lovely community to call home, with an annual street party held each June (“Ashfest”).

A low-maintenance shingled walled front garden sets the house back from the street. In your own front door and take a right for the formal front reception. This is over 14 feet by over 13 feet, with high ceilings, a big bay window, and smart built-in alcove cupboards and shelves. You also have a central opened-up fireplace and timber mantel.

Moving through the hall, you have a downstairs cloakroom to your right, then two generous cupboards: for coats, shoes and cleaning bits.

Your huge kitchen/dining room (which extends over 23 feet by over 16 feet) is accessed by a cool ‘pocket’ door at the foot of the hall. Oak floors flow through. Timeless Shaker-style units (including an island with breakfast bar) are teamed with wooden worktops. Integrated appliances are included in the sale (and the big American-style free-standing fridge plus large range cooker can also be included should you require them). Further treats include a big ceramic Butler sink, delightful pendant and wall light fittings (which are staying should buyer desire), a trio of Velux windows, and exposed brickwork detail.

A pleasing plumbed utility room/pantry is neatly set off this room, and folding double-glazed doors at the opppsite end open to the paved area of the suntrap-status garden. A healthy lawn is set at a raised level above this. A wooden gate usefully connects you to the Mews behind.

Up to the first floor and straight ahead you have a little lobby, with your first bathroom on your right (slate wall tiles and traditional suite and fittings featuring here) and a double bedroom straight ahead. This is double-aspect, and over 12 feet by over 9 feet.

Moving toward the front of the house you have another bedroom set to your right (of over 7 feet by nearly 11 feet), then the big principal rests across the front, of 17 feet by nearly 12 feet, with a bank of custom-made closets (to the near wall), twin sash windows, and an en suite wet-room/shower room, with large profile tiles, and with high-end traditional fittings once more.

Your second floor hosts a large top bedroom with a lovely en suite bathroom – this has more nodworthy traditional-style sanitaryware and fittings, and a pair of timber-framed sash windows above the bath.

A little bit of a secret this area… but likely not for long! An extremely well-connected patch. The stuff of driving lessons: quiet, Victorian streets, within striking distance of excellent transport links, shops, cafes and parks. Middleton is your closest cafe, with fresh loaves from Paul Rhodes Bakery. Of an evening or weekend, The Brookmill Pub and Kitchen is a local favourite, and it’s just a six minute walk away on Cranbrook Road. The Talbot is also good, and even closer.

As well as Ashmead Primary, three others are very close: St Stephen's C of E (0.2 miles), Lucas Vale (0.3 miles) and Myatt Garden (0.5 miles). For secondary phase, Deptford Green and Hatcham College (11-18) are popular local choices.

You are about a mile from The Maritime Greenwich UNESCO World Heritage Site – comprising the historic town centre, the beautiful Royal Park and the related institutional buildings. The Royal Observatory is a must-go-to and the views from up here at the top of the park, looking onto The Thames and beyond, are really something.

Friendly Gardens and Brookmill Park are your closest green spaces. The latter is a five acre linear park running alongside the tidal River Ravensbourne (which becomes a tributary to the Thames less than a mile away). The park sustains an exceptionally rich and impressive variety of birdlife with kingfishers, herons, egrets, moorhens, coots, mallard, wagtails, goldfinches, long-tailed tits, migratory visitors and more. It is also home to around 8 pairs of pipistrelle bats and is currently being managed to enhance green corridors. Two nature reserves adjoin the park.

Deptford High Street and Market Yard area is a hip local spot. Here we like Salt, Marcella, Jazu and Deli X among other delights.

Brockley Market, on Lewisham Way, next to Lewisham College (a two minute walk) is a top way to spend Saturday time (on from 10am through to 2pm) and some pennies! Greenwich Picturehouse is also a short walk away. And don’t miss your local contemporary art gallery: Goldsmiths CCA.

Tenure: Freehold
Council tax band: D
Borough: Lewisham