Edric Road, New Cross, SE14

Lovely three double bedroom bay-fronted terrace with a good storage loft and a generous cellar (with conversion opportunity), and a lush and mature fruit-bearing garden of over 45 feet, with pergola. And lucky you - the house is being sold chain free.

Under the current ownership, the house has been sensitively and sensibly improved. You have a modern shower room, new carpets, and a delightful decorative scheme.

Find the tidy turnkey home on a favoured residential street within Hatcham Conservation Area, close to Hatcham Primary School (you are also within easy walking distance of the Haberdashers' Secondary).

Your local stations? Are New Cross Gate and Queens Road Peckham. Both are a 12 minute walk, Fare Zone 2, and on the Overground network. Bus travel is easy from here, too. The 21 whizzes you to London Bridge, and the 453 to Trafalgar Square. And you can easily connect with tube travel at London Bridge or Elephant & Castle.

Car parking is currently unrestricted on Edric and surrounding streets, and there is a bike hangar just over the street.

In the front door and your formal double-reception tests to your right. Stripped original boards flow through from the hall. Both have pleasing coving and ceiling rose detail. The front room is over 13 feet by over 11 feet, with attractive central fireplace (with pine surround). Custom-made shutters feature to the bay window. The rear reception (a natural formal reception room) is over 11 feet by over 9 feet. Shutters grace the windiw here as well.

At the foot of the hall you have your access door to the large basement (of over 22 feet of over 15 feet), and a plumbed utility cupboard and neat windowed downstairs/guest w.c.

Then the large double-aspect kitchen/diner, running over 20 feet. A second bay window is a perfect spot for a table and chairs. The fitted kitchen is a timeless style with stainless steel handles and wooden counters.

Timber-framed glazed French doors deliver you to the splendid decked and lawned garden. What a joy it is - you'll enjoy generously-fruiting (and spring-blossoming) cherry, apple, apricot and pear trees. Your basement is fab for storing the preserved surplus.

Upstairs and from the half-landing, you have the first of your bedrooms at the back of the building. This has a pale carpet, and is over 15 feet by over 9 feet, with vistas over yours and neighbouring gardens.

Next door is the property's smart windowed shower room, with sliding door.

From the main landing, first on your left is bedroom two - another double (this time with stripped boards to the floor) of over 11 feet by over 9 feet.

Finally across the front of the house is your principal bedroom, of over 15 feet by nearly 11 feet. This spacious room is carpeted, has custom-made shutters to its two windows (to street views), and a bank of built-in wardrobes to the near wall.

A bit about the area: Hatcham CA is a quiet tucked-away residential pocket of south London. From 1614, the land was owned by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. When the manor house ('Hatcham Park') was demolished circa 1840, terraced homes were permitted to be built. Rescued from demolition in the seventies, Hatcham Conservation Area was designated by Lewisham Council in 1990.

Stroll - passing further Victorian housing stock - 12 minutes 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 parks include Telegraph Hill (Upper and Lower, with Saturday Farmers' Market, or hop on a bus down to Brockley Market), Southwark and Fordham Parks. There are also two little neighbourhood parks: Eckington Gardens and Bridgehouse Meadows. Besson Street Community Garden is a delightful local asset as well.

Local eateries, drinkeries and cafes of note include Corner (cafe/bar), The Old Library (bar plus music studios/live music venue), The Rose Inn, Cup.PhoBun and The Earl of Derby.

Nip down to neighbouring SE15 for more options, including Peckham Bazaar, Ganapati, The Begging Bowl, Forza Wine, Artusi, Levan, Peckham Levels, and Il Giardino.

Cool Deptford has a top gastronomic and bar offering as well. We rate Jazu, Watergate (small plates, cocktails, wine), Marcella (modern Italian), Salt (pizza, craft beer) and The Dog & Bell pub to name a few.

Deptford also has a great theatre: The Albany, and a modern leisure centre with lane pool and sauna/steam rooms, next door to the library.

New Cross is home to Goldsmiths University and a cool contemporary art gallery: Goldsmiths CCA.

Grab your fresh loaves from Blackbird Bakery by QRP station, or at Ayres on nearby Nunhead Lane. While you're in Nunhead, check out such delights as Soper's (wet fish shop), El Vermut and Mother Superior (fancy bottle shops with tables) Goodcup/Goodnights (coffee/cocktails) and Bar D4100 (bar and pizza).

Kids or on the horizon? Your most local primary is just at the end of the road (in a traditional Victorian school building with a modern architectural treatment by Jestico + Whiles, and which feeds to the secondary school based in New Cross's Telegraph Hill Conservation Area), Edmund Waller and Kender. Deptford Green is a second well-regarded local secondary school.