Breakspears Road, London, SE4

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An Exceptional Family Home On One Of SE4's Most Coveted Roads. Carefully renovated to make the most of its period features and Victorian proportions, with a remarkable kitchen extension, five double bedrooms, a top floor cinema room and Brockley station just 5 minutes walk away.

Nearly a decade of careful, considered renovation has produced an impressive family home where period character and modern design sit together naturally. 

Original features like the stained glass, some fireplaces and Victorian proportions are all intact. The kitchen, the bathrooms and even the windows have all been updated to a superb modern standard.

This is a tall, handsome Victorian semi-detached home with the kind of proportions and period details that newer builds simply can't replicate. The original balustrade, stripped floorboards on the landings, and stained glass in the front door that floods the entrance hall with colour on a sunny morning - they're everywhere you look.

The enclosed front porch keeps the draughts out and handles the stuff daily life throws at us - boots, bags and Amazon deliveries - before you're even through the front door.

The ground floor tells two stories at once. At the front, a bay-fronted reception room with a period fireplace and deep alcove shelving - it’s calm, characterful and perfect as a second sitting room or home office.

Behind it sits the family room. With no outside walls, it stays cosy in the winter and genuinely cool in summer, with a log burner installed in 2022 and the original fireplace surround intact. Crittall-style sliding doors frame the view straight through to the kitchen beyond, keeping the ground floor feeling connected without being entirely open plan.

At the back, the house opens up into something else entirely. The 2022 kitchen extension was designed with real thought - a triangular window between the kitchen and living room was positioned specifically to draw light through into the snug.

Puccini - the highly regarded kitchen designers in Crofton Park - fitted the deep blue shaker cabinetry with Corston switches and sockets throughout. The floor is engineered oak herringbone from Original Timbers, running through from the extension into the living room. Electric skylights flood the space with light from above, and Crittall-style doors open directly onto the garden. Two app-controlled ovens, a Quooker tap, induction hob, warming drawer and a Fisher & Paykel fridge complete the spec. The utility room and a separate WC sit discreetly to the side. 

Below it all, there’s a proper cellar - housing the boiler, shelving, a second fridge and freezer - with the kind of stable temperature that makes it perfect for wine storage.

The garden is south-east facing and, thanks to the lower roofline of the neighbouring properties, gets sun for longer than most on the street. Fruit trees - apple and pear, believed to predate the house from when this whole area was orchard land - give it character that no landscaper could easily replicate. 

There's a greenhouse with a rainwater butt, a summerhouse with a new roof, a pond, and side access for bikes and muddy boots coming back from Hilly Fields. 

Off-street parking on the drive at the front completes a practical picture that's genuinely hard to find in the Brockley Conservation area, given it’s getting harder to get planning permission these days.

Upstairs, five double bedrooms are spread across the first and second floors. The main bedroom has an original cast iron fireplace and a bay window. The second bedroom gets beautiful morning light and has sturdy push-to-open fitted cupboards. 

Two Burlington-fitted bathrooms - both fully redone in 2017, both with underfloor heating - serve the upper floors. 

On the second floor, one bedroom was transformed as part of the 2022 project: the old chimney came out, a false ceiling came down, and electric skylights with blinds went in, giving it a completely different feel to anything else on this floor.

At the top, the attic room has its own quality - with a vaulted ceiling, skylights, and views over London that stop people in their tracks. The working projector will be included in the sale, so it can function as a space for kids to watch films, a playroom, a study or overflow guest space. The eaves storage is exceptional.

The current owners bought the house in 2015 and have spent the last 10 years lovingly updating and improving it. Their survey picked up the property had been underpinned in 1999, with further improvement works and tree removal in 2006. All the relevant paperwork is available to view.

Some roads in London have a quality about them that's hard to define but easy to feel. Breakspears Road in the Brockley Conservation Area is one of them - the kind of street where families put down roots and stay put. The current owners loved it so much they rented the house for three months before their purchase completed, just to make sure it didn't slip away!

Brockley station is only a five minute walk away. From there it’s three stops to Canada Water or two to London Bridge. 

Ladywell, Crofton Park, St Johns and both DLR stations at Deptford Bridge and Elverson Road are all within fifteen minutes on foot, giving you plenty of alternative options. 

You’re also well served for green space, with Hilly Fields Park only a couple of roads away - with a playground, café, parkrun, tennis courts, cricket pitch, kids' weekend sports clubs and summer fairs, with views across London thrown in. 

For schools, the area is well served at every level - Gordonbrock and John Stainer are both well regarded locally, Prendergast on Hilly Fields and Haberdashers' Hatcham are popular secondary choices, and the bus for the Dulwich schools (Alleyn's, JAGS, Dulwich College and Dulwich Prep) leaves from Wickham Road, around 100m from the front door. St Dunstan’s College is a short drive away too.

Exceptional period family homes in the Brockley Conservation Area don't come up often. When they've been renovated to this standard, they don't stay available for long.

KEY FEATURES

• An exceptional four storey Victorian family home on one of SE4's most sought-after roads

• Remarkable 2022 kitchen extension with Puccini cabinetry, herringbone oak floors and electric skylights

• Crittall-style doors connecting kitchen, living room and garden in a layout that works for family life

• Five double bedrooms across three upper floors, plus a top floor room with views over London

• Two Burlington-fitted bathrooms, both fully renovated in 2017, both with underfloor heating

• South-east facing garden with mature fruit trees, greenhouse and summerhouse

• Off-street parking on the drive 

• Brockley station five minutes walk away, with London Bridge two stops and Canada Water three stops away

• Hilly Fields Park a short walk away, with school bus for Dulwich College, Alleyn's and JAGS nearby

• Quiet residential street in the Brockley Conservation Area