wellfield road london sw16 £895,000 freehold · church spire beyond. the house is located...
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Wellfield RoadLondon SW16
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This wonderful three-bedroom house can be found onWellfield Road in Streatham Village. Recently renovatedthroughout to a design by Simon Astridge ArchitectureWorkshop, the picturesque Victorian facade concealsimaginative contemporary interiors that culminate in aglass-walled sunken living room enveloped by rich foliageoutside.
Wellfield Road is a quiet residential street in one of theoldest and most sought-after parts of Streatham. Thesemi-detached cottage is set behind a neat courtyardgarden at the front and reaches just over 1,100 sq ftinternally.
The house was completed in 2018 to an immaculatestandard, using an artful collection of high quality, innovativematerials. Natural wood, bare plaster, and soft-grey tones
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chime with exposed-brick details and glass to create anentirely contemporary re-interpretation of the Victoriancottage.
The ground floor is mostly open plan. Oak-parquet flooringleads from the entrance to the kitchen, where theappliances are organised within an island set which asculptural sycamore top. A step down leads to a sunkenliving space, framed by huge single pane windows to thegarden outside. Clever planting provides an ever-changingbackdrop and invites mottled sunlight in throughout theday. Metal-framed doors lead outside, and a wood burnersits sculpturally at the centre of the room.
At the front of the plan is a snug living room / home officewith the original fireplace now minimally set in a whitesurround. The front of the house is fitted with new sashwindows, and this space is enclosed within a wall of Crittaldoors.
On the first floor is a large master bedroom, with afreestanding cast-iron bath. Adjacent is the secondbedroom, currently fitted as a dressing room. The designthroughout uses smart contemporary details such as pocketsliding doors and exposed ceiling beams to maximise thesense of light and space, while honouring the buildings’history with thoughtfully chosen cast-iron radiators andironmongery. Also on this floor is the family bathroomframed with further Crittal doors. A set of bespokeblackened-steel stairs lead to the third bedroom, set ineaves of the house with views over the rooftops to thechurch spire beyond.
The house is located equidistant from Tooting BecCommon (with its Lido) and the north side of StreathamCommon. The shallow sloping lower half of the common ismostly mowed grass, and the upper half is mostly woodlandwith some small areas of gorse scrub and grassland.
Nearby is Brickwood Coffee & Bread and Blackbird bakeryfor good coffee and pastries, while slightly further afieldStreatham Wine House has lovely natural wine. Just theother side of Streatham station, there is a weekly marketon Babington Plaza.
It’s a ten-minute walk to Streatham Rail station whereSouthern and Thameslink services go north to Luton and
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Bedford via Blackfriars, the City and Farringdon, and southto Wimbledon. Direct trains to London Bridge take around24 minutes, whilst services to Blackfriars and Farringdontake around 21 minutes and 25 minutes respectively.Regular buses run along Streatham High Road to Brixtonfor connections to the Victoria Line.
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