Choumert Square, Peckham Rye

£599,950

Pleasing cottage in an idyllic spot! Choumert Square is a picture-postcard pocket of Peckham, just a few minutes from both Peckham Rye Station and Bellenden Road.

It is a tucked-away pedestrian-only Victorian laneway which has featured multiple times on Gardeners’ World and in various publications. Residents of the 46 cottages (which make up Choumert Square) share a generous communal garden at the end of the central path.

Delightfully, no Choumert Square cottage is the same, and their owners have great fun making each and every centimetre perform to the max!

In your front door and first find your reception room. This is open-plan to the modern fitted white kitchen, with a pair of skylights illuminating this area.

Up to the first floor and you have the property’s shower room to the back of the house. Then you have a lobby/dressing room, and then folding painted timber-framed doors onto the bay-windowed double bedroom. This is 11 feet by over 10 feet, with built-in alcove shelving and drawers. You can open the French doors (inward) for fresh air and full Juliet-vibes.

Up again for the loft space, which can be used as an office or even a sleeping space. It is a useful and flexible bonus area, with skylight window. Please note there is restricted head height. Accessible eaves storage completes the tour.

Choumert Square - named after the C19th landowner George Choumert - enjoys a close community and rich history of residents including a CBE, OBE and two MBE’s! Further to the Square’s national media attention, residents celebrate the square and its blooms annually, inviting the public in.

Walk just a few minutes, via Choumert Grove and Blenheim Grove, to Peckham Rye Station (Fare Zone 2) for regular and Overground services.

Blenheim Grove, Rye Lane, Choumert and Bellenden Roads are all close for cafes, bars and restaurants plus independent and grocery shopping. A few recommendations are Artusi, Il Giardino, Ganapati, The Begging Bowl, The Montpelier, The Sourcing Table, Review book store, The General Store, and Flock & Herd butchery.

Also local to you - Rye Lane is home to the trendy Bussey Building & Copeland Park spaces, plus Peckham Levels, Peckham Plex Cinema, and handy high street shops, banks and markets. In the warm months, you can head rooftop for cocktails at Frank’s or atop The Bussey Building.

Warwick Gardens is your nearest green space, and Peckham Rye Park and Common’s 113 acres is a short stroll.

Peckham is already considered one of London’s most desirable places to call home. There is even more in store for the admired postcode, including the regeneration of and around Peckham Rye Station.

Other options? Central Camberwell is local for The Camberwell Arms, The Kerfield, Little Cellars, Veraison Wines, Theo’s pizzeria and Friday live jazz nights at The Crypt (underneath St Giles Church).

East Dulwich’s Lordship Lane and North Cross Road (for the top Saturday market) are close also.