A Charming Garden Apartment in a Victorian House

In the heart of South London’s greenery, close to Alexandra Recreation Ground and Crystal Palace Park, lies this charming ground-floor apartment. The garden apartment lies on a quiet street in a typical Victorian house.

The Victorian proportions and period details have been paired with contemporary additions and warm-toned natural materials. The apartment has a wonderful open-plan kitchen space, a small living room, and one bedroom with an en-suite wardrobe room.

The living room is a charming typical Victorian space with a large tripartite bay window and a central fireplace. Cornices, dado rails, and a herringbone-laid parquet floor adds character and historic charm to the sitting room.

At the back of the house is a large kitchen with a bay window and a glazed door leading to the garden. The light space has the same parquet herringbone floor as the living room.

The shaker cabinets with wooden handles are painted in ‘Pantalon’ by Farrow and Ball. The L-shape of the cabinets creates two areas in the kitchen, which is now also used as a dining room, though this could be an open-plan living space with the front room as a second bedroom.

The large bay window and garden access make this room wonderfully bright and private.

The apartment’s only bedroom also faces the garden. It features newly installed dark floorboards and walls painted in Farrow and Ball’s ‘White Tie’.

The bedroom has an adjacent skylight-lit dressing room, which is thought to have once been a porch, featuring the original checkerboard tile floor.

The apartment’s bathroom lies beyond the kitchen. The charming room has a pitched ceiling with a skylight, and the blue and white patterned floor tiles are paired with warm olive-green walls.

The apartment is listed for £630,000 at The Modern House.