Jerningham Road, New Cross

£550,000

Smart two double bedroom apartment of 807 square feet within a classic bay-fronted Victorian Telegraph Hill Conservation Area semi. Chain free.

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

Walk six 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. Your own front door is at first floor level. The front of the building hosts a huge and high-ceilinged open-plan reception/kitchen, of 19 feet by 14 feet. Fitted kitchen cupboard space (slick modern units) is plentiful. West-facing windows (you have a big bay window and a separate sash one) offer welcome sunny street vistas.

Adjacent is the property’s windowed shower room, with a useful inbuilt linen cupboard set by the door.

Next door is the first double bedroom - of over 12 feet by 10 feet, in a cool blue hue.

The second floor delivers the large and bright second bedroom with big Velux windows and lots of accessible eaves storage.

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 - with pizza place Dinner for One Hundred next door. There is 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!).

Brockley has some great neighbourhood eateries including Ellary’s, Tai and Mauby, 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. Blackbird Bakery is a nice spot as well.