Lonsdale Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick, London, W4

Attractive double fronted semi-detached family house with period features throughout.

Description

A double fronted semi-detached family house with generous proportions and planning permission to extend the ground floor.

As you enter the house, the bright open hallway gives you an immediate idea of the space and successful proportions that are enjoyed throughout the property.

At the front of the house is a grand dual aspect double reception room with a fabulous feature fireplace with doors out to the garden. Adjacent to this is a further reception room with large windows providing an abundance of natural light. The kitchen is of a good size and leads through to the dining area with views over the garden. The rear of the house has double doors that lead out to the secluded private garden and covered side access from the front of the house to the garden. The ground floor also provides a separate cloakroom and stairs down to the cellar.

The principal bedroom, located on the first floor provides the en suite bathroom and a dressing area. This floor includes a further two bedrooms and a shower room. The second floor has a further two large bedrooms and a family bathroom.

The house boasts high ceilings throughout with plenty of charming period features.

Location

Lonsdale Road sits in the heart of Bedford Park, London’s first garden suburb and Chiswick's most sought-after enclave. It is a short walk from the excellent shops, boutiques and restaurants of central Chiswick, and close to Turnham
Green Underground station (District Line). Central London and Heathrow (A4 / M4) are easily accessible, as are several leading independent schools.

Chiswick is a hugely popular and prosperous large suburb of West London located on the northern side of the River Thames, 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Charing Cross. It was historically an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex, with an agrarian and fishing economy. The name "Chiswick" is of Old English origin meaning "Cheese Farm" and originates from the riverside meadows and farms that are thought to have supported an annual cheese fair on Dukes Meadows up until the 18th century.

The style of property in Chiswick is varied offering everything from mansion flats along the High Road and on Sutton Court Road, to pretty Victorian cottages on the Glebe Estate. Large Victorian detached houses are found in Grove Park, and Arts & Crafts houses throughout Bedford Park. The River front, Chiswick Mall and Strand on the Green are lined with elegant Georgian houses ensuring that there is a fantastic variety of property throughout the local area.

Chiswick High Road, famous for its boulevard-style pavements, is full of quality independent outlets and an increasingly up-market selection of high street names which run from Hammersmith through to the Chiswick roundabout. Chiswick is a great place to shop and eat. Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and Marks and Spencer are all represented. Serving meat lovers are Macken Bros, Wyndham House and Ginger Pig butchers. Covent Garden Fishmongers do as their name suggests. Bayley & Sage have an amazing cheese counter and the Grove Park Deli on Fauconberg Road is also very popular. The Old Cinema provides Antique Vintage Retro Collections. Attractive fruit, vegetable and flower stalls add colour to the High Road. High Street banks, chemists, dry cleaners, beauty spas, fashion shops, off licences and general repair shops as well as many other outlets means there is no need to go elsewhere.

Among Chiswick’s fine dining choices are Michelin-starred La Trompette on Devonshire Road and Hedone on Chiswick High Road. Similarly renowned is Le Vacherin on South Parade. High Road House and its Brasserie are part of the Soho House empire. Numerous high street restaurants such as Honest Burgers, Cote, Byrons and Pizza Express cater for family tastes.

Lord Burlington’s Chiswick House is a picturesque, 18th-century Palladian mansion with gardens designed by William Kent. The birthplace of the English Landscape Movement, the gardens, with their statuary hedges and vistas, has had a £12 million makeover which includes a new café by architects Caruso St John. In recent years Chiswick House grounds have played host to Soho House group’s House Festival, enticing the great and the good of the media industry with performers who are both nationally renowned and locally resident.

Bedford Park, London’s first garden suburb, was built between 1875 and 1886 as part of the Arts & Crafts revival. Victorian property developer Jonathan Carr instructed lead architect Richard Norman Shaw (alongside EJ May, W Wilson and EW Godwin) in the building of a collection of houses and studios that now form a conservation area and are for the most part Grade II listed. Many of these houses feature elements of styling from William Morris, to whose legacy is dedicated the William Morris Society at Kelmscott House on Upper Mall.

Square Footage: 2,572 sq ft