Edric Road, New Cross

£950,000

Delightful double-fronted and semi-detached Victorian house with three double bedrooms, three receptions, a huge cellar, a low-maintenance part-walled garden, and (gated) side access. Chain free.

The handsome home (owned for 18 years by the current owners) sits at the westerly end of a favoured residential street within Hatcham Conservation Area, really close to Hatcham Primary School (a feeder school to the Haberdashers’ Secondary - a 12 minute walk away).

Your local stations are New Cross Gate and Queens Road Peckham. Both are a 12 minute walk, Zone 2, and on the Overground network as well as offering regular rail services. Bus travel is really easy from here too. Car parking is unrestricted on both Edric Road and Avonley Road.

A wide and walled gated garden fronts the house. Your front door is set to the side of the building. You land in a bright and high-ceilinged hall space, with original stripped pine doors opening to three reception rooms (you could easily use any one of these as a fourth bedroom). Original floor boards run underfoot.

In current setup, the first room on your immediate right is a bright reception room - of over 12 feet by over 11 feet, with pleasing picture rail, coving and rose detail. A reclaimed feature fireplace and huge central sash window are further welcome features.

Next door is a formal front reception of over 14 feet by over 13 feet, with a beautiful bay window, picture rail, coving and rose detail again, and an attractive fireplace with smart granite hearth.

Your third reception is adjacent - of over 13 feet by over 11 feet. It is currently enjoyed as a dining room. Another reclaimed fireplace brings the smiles, and you have an original built-in cupboard to the alcove by the big sash window.

Your kitchen is set down a couple of steps and to the rear of the house. It is a modern-style matt white fitted one, with granite worktops and an integrated Miele dishwasher.

A traditional-style part-glazed back door delivers you to the garden, with reclaimed York stone paving by the house. There is a handy outside w.c. (which doubles as a shed for gardening bits). The low-maintenance garden has a pleasing extra section at its foot, which was purchased by a former owner back in the nineteen sixties.

The large basement is almost the entire footprint of the ground floor and has three slim windows. It is currently used for storage/laundry/exercise/pool, but could be made much more of - local neighbours have made habitable rooms.

Up to the half-landing and you have an oversized bathroom, with frosted sash window, wet-room style shower to one corner, a heated towel radiator, basin and lavatory which are contemporary in style, and a traditional-style free-standing roll-top bath (from The Cast Iron Bath Company).

From the main landing, there is a double bedroom to your left (of over 12 feet by over 10 feet), with custom-made wardrobes to both alcoves.

The front of the house hosts two more double bedrooms. The largest (which rests over the main reception room) is over 14 feet by over 11 feet, with two south-facing sash windows, sisal flooring, original coving plus alcove cupboard, and a reclaimed feature fireplace.

Your final bedroom is over 12 feet by over 11 feet, again with coving and two south-facing sash windows.

There is space on the landing for a desk/decks/keyboard, and you can also access generous loft storage (via hatch) here.

The area? Hatcham CA is a quiet residential little-known pocket of south London. Think driving lesson territory. From 1614, the land was owned by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. When the manor house (‘Hatcham Park’) was demolished circa 1840, terraced homes were permitted to be built. Rescued from threatened demolition in the seventies, Hatcham Conservation Area was designated by Lewisham Council in 1990.

Local parks include Telegraph Hill (Upper and Lower, with Saturday Farmers’ Market, or hop on a bus down to Brockley Market) and Fordham Parks. There are also two little neighbourhood parks: Eckington Gardens (with a ‘friends of’ group who organise events like open air film screenings) and Bridgehouse Meadows. Besson Street Community Garden is a fab local asset as well.

Local eateries, drinkeries and cafes of note include Corner (cafe and bar), The Old Library (bar), The Rosemary (Hungarian fare plus pottery), The Rose Inn and The Earl of Derby.

New Cross is home to Goldsmiths University (which owns many of the town centre’s pretty period buildings) and a cool contemporary art gallery: Goldsmiths CCA.

Grab your fresh loaves from Blackbird Bakery by QRP station, or at Ayres on nearby Nunhead Lane. While you’re in Nunhead, check out such delights as Soper’s (wet fish shop), El Vermut and Mother Superior (fancy bottle shops), Goodcup/Goodnights and Bar D4100. Central Peckham, East Dulwich and Deptford are also close for more options.

Kids or thinking of? Your most local primary is just at the end of the road (a traditional Victorian building, with impressive modern architectural treatment by Jestico + Whiles, and which feeds to the secondary school within Telegraph Hill Conservation Area), Edmund Waller and Kender. Deptford Green is a second well-regarded local secondary school.

Please note for the purposes of Section 21(1) of the Estate Agency Act 1979 that Munday’s Estate Agents Ltd have a personal interest in this property in that it is owned by a director of the company.

Tenure: Freehold
Council tax band: D
Borough: Lewisham