Forest Hill Road, East Dulwich

£850,000

Fans of space are going to love this place! It is a bright and gigantic Victorian upper-floored apartment of circa 1950 square feet, just over the street from Peckham Rye Park and Common, in Peckham Rye/East Dulwich borderland. And your luck is seriously in: the sellers are selling without a chain.

Enjoy your own front door/entrance hall (with great storage), high ceilings, three bedrooms, loads of reception space, and a main bathroom plus separate w.c. You also have bonus features including a utility/store, and a large windowed top landing: a delightful home office/study area.

The location is also a winner: Peckham Rye Park and Common’s 113 acres is mere strides away, as is a bank of local shops, including a handy Co-Op store. Buses run along your street to Peckham Rye Station, or walk there or to nearby Honor Oak Park Station - both offer regular and Overground services. Lordship Lane and North Cross Road are also close.

In your own rouge front door and you land in a little lobby then a hefty hall, with three big built-in storage cupboards and an attractive original bannister setting the scene and leading the eye up.

Up to the first floor and you will find your huge front reception room resting to your right - this is over 15 feet by nearly 18 feet. You could make it a fourth bedroom if you preferred as there is ample reception space already going on. Your large windows face east: enjoy great morning sun. Off this room is a little lean-to via part-glazed French doors, which the current owners use as an independent utility/store.

Next up is the enormous kitchen/dining room/reception, which runs over 24 feet by over 11 feet. There is lots of room for seating and dining in here. Really smart kitchen counters and units impress. Open west-facing double doors to a very sunny and private decked terrace area.

Up a few stairs to the mid-landing and you have an independent w.c. and your first bedroom: a neat single with a double-glazed casement window.

The second floor delivers two large double bedrooms - the front one is over 15 feet each way, the rear one is 14 feet by nearly 12 feet, and you can directly access your second private sunny terrace here.

A swanky bathroom completes the tour - with monochrome and trendy terrazzo detail plus contemporary sanitary ware including a double basin. You also have plumbed and concealed utility space (just genius!).

We’ve mentioned Peckham Rye Park and Common. There are loads of fab green spaces to call local. Horniman Gardens is gorgeous, as is One Tree Hill.

In addition to the run of handy local shops by the flat, enjoy those on Lordship and Rye Lanes, as well as those of Honor Oak and Nunhead centres.

Your local cinemas are East Dulwich Picturehouse and Peckham Plex Cinema, and for social meets, Watson’s General Telegraph and The Herne Tavern are your closest public houses - both in handsome Victorian buildings and with big outside areas.

Bellenden Road also isn’t far for top restaurants including Artusi, The Begging Bowl and Ganapati. Other great dining options in SE15 include Banh Banh, Mr Bao, Miss Tapas, Levan, The Coal Rooms and Peckham Bazaar.

East Dulwich leisure centre is a short stroll away, or you can sign yourself up for British Military Fitness workouts on Peckham Rye!

Kids? Local nurseries and primaries are well-regarded and include Horniman, Fairlawn and Goodrich.