Rutt’s Terrace, New Cross

£1,100,000

Architect-designed, completely one-off three double bedroom contemporary home of 1321 square feet, by award-winning and internationally-active practice Nagan Johnson (based in Waterloo). Chain free.

The impressive property has a cute courtyard ‘city’ garden off the reception room at ground floor level, and an enormous private roof terrace atop the house. Parking is unrestricted on the street.

The location is a most pleasing one. You are close to great schools; Edmund Waller (3-11) and Haberdashers’ (3-18) being the closest. And for transport, Queens Road Peckham, Nunhead and New Cross Gate stations are all close (walk 10, 11 and 14 minutes to these).

There are lots of useful bus routes from Queens Road/New Cross Road, too. Local green spaces include Telegraph Hill’s parks and Nunhead's gorgeous Victorian cemetery (one of 'The Magnificent Seven').

Back to the house! The vision for the project was 'for a distinctive, bold and sustainable statement, in contrast to the Victorian vernacular surrounding, but sensitive to its place in the environment and community'. This has certainly been achieved.

It is an incredibly eco-efficient abode (EPC rating of ‘B’) and is notably geared toward adaptable and accessible living. You have underfloor heating throughout the building, a Worcester Bosch Greenstar 8000+ combi boiler (with smart thermostat), and recycled rubber roof terrace tiling (providing an additional thermal layer). Enjoy those low heating bills!

You open into a neat entrance lobby, with built-in closets for coats and such. Two doors from here provide direct access to the kitchen or the open-plan living/dining room.

Beginning with the kitchen - this is an impressive slick fitted affair by The Myers Touch, and hosts high-end Siemens appliances including an induction hob. The space is cleverly sky-lit from above.

The massive open-plan ground floor area (lots of space to zone your seating and eating spaces) has an on-trend concrete floor flowing throughout downstairs, a windowed guest w.c. (tucked neatly to the far corner) and oversized sliding doors to a private and sunny west-facing courtyard garden with gated access to the pavement.

Upstairs and from a main landing you have a huge principal bedroom to the front of the house, with a delighting double-aspect, plenty of bespoke built-in wardrobes/storage, and a smart en suite bathroom.

Next door is a sleek shower room, then you have your two further bedrooms to the rear of the house. The first is 14 feet by over 8 feet, and the second (with a double-aspect) is 16 feet by over 9 feet.

You are in Nunhead/Peckham/New Cross borderland in this location, just outside the boundary of Telegraph Hill Conservation Area: you can enjoy what all have to offer.

Nunhead's high street and Green area has been the subject of much recent improvement (the high street has great local shops/cafes/little bars etc. Examples are Ayres bakery, FC Soper, Goodcup, Mother Superior, El Vermut and BARD4100) as has the Queens Road Peckham area around the station.

New Cross has a friendly, yearly-refreshed vibe, thanks to Goldsmiths University. It also has a cool tucked-away contemporary art gallery: Goldsmiths CCA.

Local pubs include The Earl of Derby, Skehan’s, Beer Rebellion and The Rose Inn. Eating out? For brilliant Balkan cuisine, check out Peckham Bazaar on Consort Road. Kudu’s offerings and Peckham Cellars by QRP Station are fab as well.

If kids are here or on the horizon, you are in a super spot for excellent local schools from nursery through to sixth form phases. In addition to the closest schools mentioned, also nearby you have Deptford Green and STAC (secondaries) and Hollydale, Ivydale, St James Hatcham and Kender (primaries).

Telegraph Hill’s parks are very local to you, and the lower park has a classy weekly Saturday market. The upper park has public tennis courts. Other good local markets to check out include Brockley Market (held in Lewisham College’s walled car park) and East Dulwich’s North Cross Road one (also held regularly on Saturdays).

A large Sainsbury's store is local by NXG Station. For more shopping and social options, it is a short trip to Greenwich, Deptford, Nunhead, Peckham, Camberwell, Borough and Bermondsey.