Upper Brockley Road, Brockley, London

Big and bright two double bedroom second (top) floor conversion apartment, within a handsome detached Victorian Brockley Conservation Area mansion. A lawned communal garden area rests to the rear, and you are close to Luxmore Gardens and Hilly Fields for best local public green spaces. Parking is currently unrestricted. Chain free.

A leafy and residential yet well-connected spot! Walk 10-15 minutes for Brockley, New Cross and St Johns stations. All are Fare Zone 2 with regular and Windrush line services. Or pick up a bus from nearby Lewisham Way.

You enter the building at its rear (on Vulcan Road), up stairs to the main front door. Take the stairs up to your own front door on the flat’s second floor level.

High ceilings impress from the off. Straight ahead from the hall you have your principal bedroom. This is generous with custom-made closets creating a dressing-room area.

Next door is a second generous double, of 12 feet by 11 feet, also with big built-in wardrobes. Sash windows have a southeasterly orientation.

Next off the hall is a beautiful bathroom, with contemporary-style sanitaryware, concealed plumbing, and on-trend monochrome fittings. An over-bath shower covers all bases.

Finally you have your roomy reception room of 13 feet each way. There’s space for dining and seating (the natural dining spot to good green views by your sash window). Your neat windowed modern kitchen is set down a couple of steps to the far corner. Integrated appliances are included in the sale.

There is a real buzz about this locale, in the press and on the ground. You have lots of independent cafes, pubs and restaurants to choose from. We’re particularly fond of The Wickham Arms (with yummy Thai food, it is just over the road), Broca cafe and Browns of Brockley (the latter two are right by Brockley station), Ellary’s and Mauby restaurants on Harefield Road, plus Meze Mangal and Kalimar on Lewisham Way.

Lewisham Arthouse is close (formerly Deptford Library: a grade II listed Carnegie building) for interesting exhibitions, plus drawing, ceramic and photography classes. And contemporary gallery: Goldsmiths CCA, is local too.

Of the weekend, check out Brockley Market, or saunter down to The Maritime Greenwich UNESCO World Heritage Site.

In the other direction, Peckham and Camberwell are a short bus ride for more options.

Green-space? Luxmore and Friendly Gardens are both local cute neighbourhood parks, or check out Hilly Fields (Hilly Fields with Saturday Parkrun, cafe, cricket, tennis courts and more), Telegraph Hill’s Victorian parks, Nunhead’s beautiful cemetery or Peckham Rye Park and Common’s 113 acres.

Kids or thinking of? Local schools with nurseries include Myatt Garden, Ashmead, Haberdashers’, John Stainer and Edmund Waller primaries.