Astbury Road, Peckham

£925,000

Sale Agreed

Optimised bay-fronted Victorian terrace of 1381 square feet, delivering five bedrooms and two bathrooms (plus a guest lavatory) over three floors. A low-maintenance garden with well-stocked borders completes the package. Parking is unrestricted, on the street.

Welcome features include energy-efficient double-glazed windows throughout, fresh plaster and paint (with accent walls in each room), and smart engineered oak flooring to many rooms.

Find your new home on a blossom-tree-lined residential street, pleasingly close to Queens Road Peckham Station (under five minutes by foot) for regular and Overground rail services. You’re also but a 15 minute walk from Nunhead Station and Peckham Rye Station (Fare Zone 2), Nunhead’s high street area, and Rye Lane.

In your (brand new!) front door and it’s a left turn for the generous double-reception, which runs over 25 feet.

Next door is your large, extended kitchen/diner (under floor heating here) with modern gloss units. These are teamed with wooden worktops and large profile floor tiles. Two large roof lights give this generous space a bright and airy feel. A neat downstairs w.c. is accessed via a small lobby area, where you’ll find the back door out to the garden too.

The delightful paved garden of 11 metres has year-round interest: enjoy lilies, roses, nasturtiums, wisteria, jasmine, honeysuckle, a fig tree, and raspberry and blackcurrant bushes. Bamboo and evergreen trees give a privacy screen.

On your first floor, you’ve got a large master bedroom taking the width of the house (it is 14 feet by over 11 feet). Adjacent is a second double bedroom (of over 11 feet by over 8 feet). At the rear of the floor is a further bedroom (of 12 feet by over 6 feet), and a smart windowed shower room sits en suite. Monochrome fittings and glazed ceramic tiles to the generous shower area are very welcome decisions.

Up to the second floor (new to 2021) and you’ve got bedroom number four at the rear (of over 12 feet by over 7 feet) and a second and skylit shower room at the front of the house.

Finally, find a large fifth bedroom (of over 17 feet by over 8 feet). A Juliet balcony and eaves storage also feature.

What’s around? The Blackbird Bakery - in one of the arches by the station - is a popular spot for coffee and cake. Mamma Dough, Peckham Cellars, Well & Fed and Beer Rebellion are also popular (all of a few minutes away on foot), as are Kudu’s classy offerings.

Bellenden Road and Rye Lane offer up more options (a handful of recommendations are Ganapati, The Coal Rooms, Forza Wine, Artusi and The Begging Bowl), and Peckham Bazaar is nearby on Consort Road, for beautiful pan-Balkan cooking and a strong wine list.

You’re a short walk from Peckham Library and leisure centre plus canal path through Burgess Park, and you’re also close to New Cross - for Goldsmiths University, a fab contemporary art gallery (Goldsmiths CCA), and Telegraph Hill’s pretty Victorian parks. The Peckham Coal Line is an exciting crowdfunded project that’ll link Peckham’s two stations with a linear park.

Nunhead, Dulwich, Camberwell, Greenwich and Brixton are also close for markets, parks, and more places to eat and drink.

Kids, or thinking of? Local nursery and primary provision includes Kender, Edmund Waller and Hatcham primaries, and Monkey Puzzle, Smart Kids and Stepping Stones nurseries.

Tenure: Freehold
Council tax band: D
Borough: Southwark