Wilmington Square, WC1X

The most gracious of apartments laterally arranged over two Georgian houses.

The piano Nobile or bel étage is the principal floor of any grand residence, with floor to ceiling windows in the main rooms and the most enchanting of views. This significant apartment has these redeeming features with ornate balconies and access to a communal garden, is located on one of the most handsome garden Squares with the drawing room and principal bedroom having direct views onto Wilmington Square and its gardens.

Believed to date to the early 1800’s, Grade II listed and having featured in Homes and Garden we have fallen in love with this exceptional home which our client has painstaking redesigned.

The accommodation comprises a bright formal drawing room with two huge windows with shutters overlooking Wilmington Square, open fireplace, cornicing and separate kitchen. There is a principal bedroom also with two huge windows with shutters and built in wardrobes which overlooking the Square a further bedroom and bathroom.

Located just off Rosebery Avenue it is moments from Spa Fields and Exmouth Market.

Transport links are superb with Angel Underground (Northern line) and Farringdon Station (Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City lines as well as mainline and Crossrail) a short walk away. There are also numerous bus routes which take you directly towards London’s West End.

Rosebery Avenue is famed for Sadler's Wells Theatre, renowned as one of the world leading dance venues as well as the home to the New River Head, a site of considerable historic importance, developed by Sir Hugh Myddelton in the early 1600’s, as a source of providing fresh drinking water for London.

Now Clerkenwell is one of London's most vibrant destinations regarded as London's Avant Garde design quarter with numerous bespoke shops, art galleries and designer furniture shops as well as been home to more Architect practises than anywhere globally.

It is easily walkable to the Inns of Court at Gray’s Inn and Lincolns Inn as well as London financial district the City, not to mention over 5,000 tech companies and start-ups close to Old Street roundabout (now known as silicon roundabout). In fact, CNN European Network, HBO, Time Warner and Linked-in have recently moved headquarters to the area.

The Barbican centre which can be found at the southern end of St John Street is part of the Global Cultural Districts Network and is the largest performing Art Centre in Europe, hosting music concerts, art exhibitions and film screenings.

A truly special and unique home.