Matham Grove, East Dulwich

£995,000

Sale Agreed

Best and final offers invited by 10am, Wednesday 23rd October.

Doer-upper alert! Four double bedroom Victorian terrace on a tree-lined residential side street set off Lordship Lane and East Dulwich Grove. It is an attractive brick-built bay-fronted house, seeking renovation and its next chapter. Chain free.

Walk just eight minutes to East Dulwich Station (Fare Zone 2). Lovely Lordship Lane is even closer. Pretty Dulwich Village is a 10 minute stroll. And Denmark Hill and Peckham Rye stations are each 20 minutes by foot.

You are also close to The Charter School East Dulwich, plus independent secondaries Alleyn’s and JAGS, and to the local independent and state primary schools in Dulwich Village and East Dulwich, including DV Infants' School and Dulwich Hamlet Junior School.

Excluding the loft and a handy cellar space (with ladder access at the moment), the property measures in at 1634 square feet.

On entry, you have a familiar double-reception setup to your left. The front room is 15 feet by nearly 12 feet. The rear one (doors connect/divide the rooms) is over 11 feet by over 10 feet. Floor boards feature here.

At the end of the hall you land in a kitchen space with dated units. Beyond is a bathroom which then leads onto (an extension from the house’s original footprint) an additional reception or downstairs bedroom which is double aspect and has the back door to the garden.

The ground floor is begging for a remodel/wall-spanning doors onto the garden treatment. You could make a fabulous back room back here with open-plan kitchen/dining space. A lean-to area completes the tour of this floor. Your back garden runs over 5 metres. It has basic paving.

The first floor is your standard arrangement: from the half-landing you have a basic bathroom and a bedroom at the back of the building. Then from the main landing you have another good double and then a wide master bedroom across the front of the house, with sash windows to the (south-facing) bay window and an additional one, too.

Up again and you have a windowed kitchen (a bath or shower room would work well instead here perhaps) and then a fourth double bedroom above your first.

Your pleasingly local high street Lordship Lane has many and varied independent places to recommend including Chener (books), Mons (cheese), Moxon’s (fish), William Rose (meat), SMBS (whole and fresh foods), The EDT and Franklin’s restaurant. East Dulwich Grove has a handy little run of shops as well.

North Cross Road has a classy Saturday market and fab little open-all-week boutique shops. East Dulwich Picturehouse is a popular spot (those bookable sofa seats are a must) on The Lane, as are two M&S stores. A large Sainsbury’s store is also local to you, on Dog Kennel Hill.

Dulwich Village is also a pleasant walk for Dulwich Picture Gallery, designed by Regency architect Sir John Soane and the oldest public art gallery in England (opened to the public in 1817), plus The Crown & Greyhound pub, Gail’s, Pizza Express and Rocco Di Papa.

Cool Peckham is close (walk through Goose Green) for restaurants such as Ganapati, Artusi and The Begging Bowl on Bellenden Road. Rye Lane is also strong for high street shopping, fruit and veg stalls, and summer be-seen-at rooftop bars. The trendiest spots include Peckham Levels and The Bussey Building. Peckham Plex cinema is great as well (films for £5.99). It just celebrated its 30th birthday!

For more options, Herne Hill and Camberwell are easily reached.

Green spaces to enjoy locally include Dulwich Park, Goose Green, Peckham Rye Park & Common, and Camberwell's Ruskin Park.