Ventnor Road, New Cross

£925,000

Sale Agreed

Best and final offers invited by 11am, Thursday 17th April.

Smart and bright bay-fronted mid-terraced house with three double bedrooms and a large basement. The location? Is a quiet residential side street within New Cross’s Hatcham Conservation Area.

You are just eight minutes by foot to New Cross Gate Station (Fare Zone 2, one stop to London Bridge and on the Windrush line). You are also close to fab local schools and nurseries.

From the hall, your double-reception rests to your left. The front room is over 14 feet by over 11 feet, with custom-made shutters to the bay window and an attractive fireplace. The rear reception - a natural dining room - is over 11 feet by over 9 feet. Stripped floors and dado and coving detail through both rooms bring the smiles.

At the end of the hall, you can access the massive cellar (this is over 22 feet by over feet) - a superb storage area, or use as a home gym as the current owners do.

Before your kitchen/diner, you have a utility cupboard and opposite this, a handy downstairs w.c. The kitchen/diner is double-aspect and generous, running over 17 feet to pleasing oversized double-glazed French doors. The fitted kitchen units are sleek and glossy, teamed with wooden counters and brick-style wall tiles.

The lawned and paved garden has a northwesterly orientation - delivering delightful afternoon sun.

The first floor hosts your three double bedrooms and the property’s windowed bathroom. The bedroom at the back is over 13 feet by over 8 feet, with large square windows to the each external wall.

Bedroom two (pretty in pink!) is another double, of over 10 feet by over 9 feet. Your large principal bedroom concludes the tour - with two windows (graced with more custom-made shutters), and large to-the-ceiling fitted wardrobes. All bedrooms are carpeted for cosiness.

Some area notes: 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 threatened 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 just eight 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 cafe and 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 thriving and growing 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 thinking of? 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.

Tenure: Freehold
Council tax band: D
Borough: Lewisham