Orleans Road, London, SE19

A detached four-bedroom house with a ground-floor study, extended and refurbished to a high standard, with a south-facing garden, off-street parking for two cars, a separate garden studio and no onward chain. At 2,417 sq ft in total, with a focus on generous living space, light, space and openness, this functional home is ready to move straight into, with no work needed.

The entrance hall sets the tone immediately: wide, oak-floored, with a full run of fitted storage along one wall that removes the usual hallway clutter entirely. There’s a sense of space and width that continues throughout the ground floor.

The rear extension is the centrepiece, and the kitchen and living areas flow as a single open-plan space across the full width of the rear, providing masses of space to zone your living, dining, and entertaining spaces. There are three large rooflights overhead and bifold doors opening directly onto the garden on two sides, giving the living space a feeling of openness and light, whatever the season.

The kitchen is fitted with teal cabinetry with an island at its centre; there’s a vast amount of composite worktop, an inset sink, and pendant lighting above. Decorative patchwork tiling covers the splashback wall and wraps the kitchen pillar — a considered detail that holds its own. There’s a wide counter-level window overlooking the side of the house, which lets great natural light into your cooking space.

There’s an impressively sized wine fridge built in as well as a pair of high-quality ovens. For casual meals and breakfasts, there’s an adjoining table to the island, and space for a much larger table further along if needed. You can go as large as you want to here, given the space on offer; a refectory table would work beautifully if you enjoy entertaining.

The living area to the side has an exposed-brick flank wall and its own set of bifolds that open onto the garden. There’s also a large, wide window at the front of the house and a clerestory window along the side, as well as the roof lantern. The sheer volume of glass here ensures the space always stays bright. There’s an impressive bespoke shelving unit built in around the wide entrance to this space, the wide aperture of which, like so much of the downstairs, imbues space, width and openness, a theme that dominates the house in a good way.

The ground-floor study at 3.86 x 3.40m is a proper room with a window to the front, it’s bright and spacious —  a genuinely useful space as a home office or playroom, and well away from the main living areas. There’s a useful downstairs cloakroom adjacent to the study, just tucked behind the staircase, a very useful detail and helpfully in close proximity to the entertaining space.

Upstairs, four bedrooms are arranged off a generous landing. The principal room (bedroom one on the floorplan) has vaulted ceilings, an integrated wardrobe and an en-suite. Adjacent is bedroom three, which also has vaulted ceilings. Bedroom five is currently, and very decadently, a dressing room, with large swathes of integrated bespoke wardrobe space. Bedroom two has a lovely en-suite, ideal for your guests, as it sits opposite the principal bedroom and bedroom four is another decent-sized room that overlooks the garden. All rooms are decorated with commitment: deep greens, teal, mustard — rooms with character rather than the usual neutral amnesia.

The main family bathroom is tiled in large-format ceramics with a green painted ceiling and walls, a full-length bath with a rain shower, a glass shower screen, and a wall-hung vanity unit in dark walnut. The en-suite shower room is fully tiled in large-format stone-effect ceramics with a frameless walk-in shower, ceiling-mounted rose and a wall-hung WC. The second en-suite is a further shower room with a similar specification.

The southwest-facing rear garden is impressive; it’s wide and deep and is designed to be low-maintenance, and gets sun from early afternoon into the evening, ideal for summer BBQs and dining outdoors. Approximately 15.75 x 12.55m, it's been landscaped in a contemporary style: a paved terrace directly off the kitchen bifolds, a pergola with outdoor kitchen, dining and barbecue to one side, a gravel path running the length through multi-stem trees planted in the central bed, and a strip of lawn to the other side. At the rear, a raised seating and fire pit area is behind a planted screen. Well considered, low maintenance, and genuinely enjoyable to be in.

The detached studio in the corner is 3.66 x 2.62m with dual aspect windows — one facing the garden, one to the side. It works as an office, treatment room or creative space and has its own power. To the front, a gravel driveway takes two cars comfortably.

Location-wise, Orleans Road sits a short walk from the Crystal Palace Triangle — close enough that it functions as a local high street, which it essentially is. The Triangle has a strong independent offer across coffee, food and drink: restaurants, wine bars, an Everyman Cinema, and a Saturday food market on Haynes Lane with produce from small and sustainable suppliers.

There's a Sainsbury's at the top of Bedwardine Road, literally a stone’s throw away! Westow Park is right next to the house — offering almost 7 acres, mature trees, playground. Upper Norwood Recreation Ground is a short walk around the corner, offering 19 acres, with free tennis courts and vast open grass. Crystal Palace Park is a further walk beyond: 200 acres of Grade II listed grounds, the newly refurbished Victorian dinosaur sculptures, a boating lake and the National Sports Centre with a gym, squash courts and physio.

Notably, Rockmount Primary School — rated Outstanding by Ofsted — is on the next road over, effectively on the doorstep, eliminating any catchment anxiety!

Gipsy Hill and Crystal Palace stations are both easily accessible; Gipsy Hill is 0.7mi away, and Palace is 0.9mi away. Crystal Palace gives you London Bridge in around 15 minutes; Gipsy Hill connects to Victoria directly. The Overground from Crystal Palace runs through to Shoreditch and Dalston.

Parking - Driveway

Space for two large cars, three at a push.