Calais Gate, Cormont Road, Camberwell, London

Characterful and generous park-facing mansion apartment in a commanding Grade II listed building within Minet Conservation Area (designated in 2018), of 1280 square feet.

Your new handsome home hosts three double bedrooms, two reception rooms, and an independent kitchen with a separate utility room next door. Further joys are a long lease and chain free status. Bicycle storage can be applied for via the TRA (there are also local bike hangars).

Oval, for the tube, is a 14 minute walk(/short bus journey), or Loughborough Junction Station is a 15 minute walk. You can also alight many a central-bound bus from nearby Camberwell New Road – with its beautiful Georgian architecture to admire upon the journey.

Get ready for a beautiful originally-tiled communal stairwell, heavenly leafy and park vistas, high ceilings, plenty of sash windows, and a general abundance of pleasing original period features.

Find your own front door on the top (fourth) floor. On your left on entry to your welcoming hall, you have your principal twin-windowed double bedroom resting to your left. Windows face south-east. This is 18 feet by 12 feet. Stripped floors impress from the off, and these flow through the property.

Adjacent is your large and light reception room, of 12 feet by nearly 17 feet, with a trio of windows and a central fireplace.

Opposite these rooms you have two further double bedrooms. These are 12 feet by 12 feet, and 14 feet by 12 feet (the latter has a cool hexagonal shape). Both have big sash windows.

The rest of the apartment is accessed from the right of the front door. Gosh, you have so much space! First on your left is your windowed bathroom, with beautiful ceramic tiling and a white suite with high-end traditional fittings (including the over-bath shower with separate spray attachment). Next door is a secondary w.c. Perfect for guests (or to avoid squabbles if someone is taking a bath or shower!).

At the foot of this corridor you open into a big dining room (with two original to-the-ceiling inbuilt cupboards to two corners plus another original fireplace). It is over 13 feet by over 11 feet. A super size for day to day, through to dinner parties with friends and family.

Beyond, you have a recently-refurbished kitchen (with gorgeous fittings from both Corston and Rowen & Wren, plus integrated oven and dishwasher) and a separate, plumbed utility room next door; complete with Butler sink and a new (to 2025) boiler. There is a wee balcony/fire escape out the back here.

Camberwell’s arty town centre is close by, with an effortlessly-chill scene with eateries and drinkeries galore. We like The Bear (your most local local, with great small plates and vinyl), The Camberwell Arms, The Kerfield Arms, Hermits Cave, Silk Road, Veraison Wines, Little Cellars and Theo’s, in particular.

There are also loads of cosy cafes alongside handy high street shops and banks, and a Morrisons supermarket etc. For luxury groceries, Gladwell’s is your go-to. Camberwell Lanes is one to watch for the future.

Coldharbour Lane (the big road up to Brixton) is also close for more options: we rate Three Eight Four for happy hour cocktails and small plates, Nanban for tasty Japanese/Brixton fusion food, and Mamma Dough for sourdough pizzas paired with craft beers. And the foodie options at Brixton Village (street food heaven and more) are fabulous, too.

You are wonderfully well-positioned to enjoy glorious Myatt’s Fields Park with bandstand, tennis courts and impressive floral displays, plus weekly Farmers’ Market. There is another of those on Camberwell Green (near Camberwell Library) as well. Ruskin Park is also close.

Camberwell has a Puregym and a good leisure centre on Artichoke Place, plus Zen Yoga Studio and Butterfly Tennis Club at the bottom of beautiful Camberwell Grove.

The centres of Brixton, Herne HIll and Peckham are also easily reached via bus, foot or cycle.