Jerningham Road, New Cross

£575,000

Architecturally-treated two double bedroom conversion apartment within a classic bay-fronted Victorian Telegraph Hill Conservation Area semi. Pleasingly, new timber double-glazed sash windows were installed throughout, last year.

The bright and smart apartment enjoys a Freehold-share and a leafy residential position near TH’s Lower (hillside) Park.

Walk just five minutes to New Cross Gate Station (one stop to London Bridge), 12 minutes to Brockley Station, and 14 to Nunhead Station. Parking is unrestricted, on-street.

There are just four flats in the building and you share a main front door and hall with two of these. Your own front door is at first floor level.

From the hall space here you have bedroom one to your immediate left, via sliding door. This is over 12 feet by nearly 10 feet, with an east-facing sash window, pale grey carpet, and brilliant built-in storage to one wall. Next door is a neat independent w.c.

The front of the flat hosts a sash-windowed bathroom (with sliding door once more) with neat white sanitary ware, an over-bath shower, plumbing for the washing machine, and a large open-plan reception/kitchen/dining room - of over 16 feet by over 13 feet, with a beautiful period feature fireplace and large bay window (the perfect spot for dining). An elegant bank of kitchen units impresses, with an open-shelf running the same length.

It’s up to the second floor for your second bedroom: a deftly-done loft conversion with pale carpet, crisp white walls (as throughout), multiple skylight windows in the roofline, and loads of easily-accessible eaves storage with cupboard frontage.

A bit more about the area... once home to Victorian poet Robert Browning, the neighbourhood was developed in the late C19th, replacing market gardens owned by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers (who controlled the development) with high-standard housing. As well as the attractive architecture and fancy street lamps, what stands here now is a pretty and friendly community with excellent connections to central London, alongside great schools and parks.

Local children attend highly-regarded Edmund Waller Primary and the through-school Haberdashers’ (3-18). There are several good nurseries within easy reach, too.

Telegraph Hill is a top place to call home. Telegraph Hill’s Victorian Parks (Upper and Lower) are fab, as is The Hill Station cafe - Dinner for One Hundred is the latest pop-up here (pizza!), There’s a monthly Farmers’ Market held in the Lower Park, or nip down to Brockley Market - held on Saturdays in the Lewisham College Car Park (much more glam than it sounds).

A large Sainsbury's store sits behind the station, and independent shops and pubs line New Cross Road.

Brockley has some great neighbourhood eateries including Ellary’s, Tai and Parlez, plus cocktail bar Brickfields and Brockley Brewery. Coffee shops are strong here too and include Good as Gold and Browns of Brockley.

In Nunhead we like Kudu Grill, BARD4100 and El Vermut. The wet fish shop and bakery are also great.

Trendy Deptford High Street is fairly close as well - for great places to eat and drink, including SALT, Jars Bar, Tea House, Marcella and The Tapas Room.

Peckham's Rye Lane and Bellenden Road are also a short walk/bus ride for more options.

Close to Queens Road Peckham Station, you've got Kudu and Peckham Cellars restaurants; both boast a Bib Gourmand. Blackbird Bakery is a nice spot as well.

Tenure: Share of Freehold (approx. 989 years remaining)
Council tax band: B
Borough: Lewisham