Egmont Street, New Cross

£925,000

Delightful and chain free three double bedroom bay-fronted mid-terraced house of 1051 square feet (excluding the basement), with a neutral decorative scheme, and a pro-landscaped garden of circa 50 feet.

The location? Is a quiet residential tree-lined side street within New Cross’s Hatcham Conservation Area.

You are just seven minutes by foot to New Cross Gate Station (Fare Zone 2, one stop to London Bridge and on the Overground line).

You are also close to really good local schools.

From the hall, two formal reception rooms rest to your right. The front room hosts an attractive cast-iron period fireplace and marble surround, and built-in alcove bookshelves. Both rooms have custom-made shutters to their sash windows (pleasingly, all of the house’s sashes were replaced with timber-framed double-glazed ones in 2019). Stripped wooden floors flow through from the hall.

At the foot of the hall is the property’s generous double-aspect kitchen, which extends nearly 24 feet (by over 8 feet) and has large profile tiling to the floor. Smart modern white units further impress, and timber-framed glazed French doors deliver you to your pleasing zoned garden. This gets great afternoon sun thanks to its north-westerly orientation.

Also on the ground floor you have a convenient downstairs toilet.

From the half-landing, your first double (and double-aspect) bedroom is set to the rear of the house, of over 13 feet by over 8 feet, with crisp white walls and white painted boards to the floor.

Your windowed bathroom is next door - with a modern white suite, white wall tiles, an over-bath shower and under-basin storage drawers.

From the main landing, bedroom two rests to your left (of nearly 11 feet by over 9 feet), and the large twin-sashed main bedroom sits across the width of the house (of nearly 15 feet by over 9 feet). This principal bedroom features a bank of fitted wall-to-wall/floor-to-ceiling wardrobes. Both of thesebedrooms have bespoke shutters to their respective windows.

Some area blurb: Hatcham CA is a cute, little-known and very-Victorian residential pocket of south London. From 1614, the land was owned by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. When the manor house here (named 'Hatcham Park’) was demolished circa 1840, terraced homes were permitted to be built.

Rescued from proposed demolition in the 1970’s, Hatcham Conservation Area was designated by Lewisham Council in 1990.

‘Hatcham’ derives most likely from Anglo Saxon; meaning ‘a clearing in the woods’, and reputedly, Charles Dickens wrote ‘Our Mutual Friend’ in a lively local: The Five Bells pub (1864-5).

Stroll seven minutes to New Cross Gate Station. There are also plenty of day and night bus routes within a short walk of the house - to Elephant & Castle and beyond, or to Peckham, Deptford, Greenwich, Brockley and Lewisham.

Local eateries and drinkeries of note include The Corner cafeand The Old Library bar, The Rosemary, The Rose Inn and The Earl of Derby.

Nip down to neighbouring SE15 for others - including Peckham Bazaar, Kudu, Kudu Grill, Ganapati, Artusi, Peckham Levels, Miss Tapas, Levan and The Begging Bowl.

Deptford has a top social scene too - check out The Watergate, Marcella, Salt and The Tea House for example. There are lots of hip hangouts in Deptford Market Yard and surrounds. Deptford also has its own theatre: The Albany, and a modern leisure centre with lane pool.

New Cross is home to Goldsmiths University and a cool contemporary art gallery (Goldsmiths CCA), and your local parks include Telegraph Hill (Upper and Lower, with Saturday Farmers’ Market, or hop on a bus down to Brockley Market) and Fordham Parks.

Eckington Gardens is a small local green space with playground and occasional community events like summer movie screenings.

Grab fresh loaves from Blackbird Bakery by QRP station, or at Ayres on nearby Nunhead Lane. While you’re in Nunhead, check out FC Soper wet fish shop as well. And El Vermut and Mother Superior are cool bottle-shops, with seating inside and out for a few. BARD4100 is the most local addition to Nunhead Lane (for pizza and beer).

Kids or they are on the horizon? Your most local primary schools are Hatcham Primary (which feeds to the secondary based in New Cross’s other local Conservation Area), Edmund Waller and Kender.