Jerningham Road, New Cross, London

Big and beautiful two double bedroom conversion apartment with a 50% Freehold-share, within a classic bay-fronted Victorian Telegraph Hill Conservation Area semi. Chain free.

There’s more! Your new home pleasingly comes with two private garden sections: a patio area by your reception room, then a sizeable, mature and well-stocked section to the rear of the building’s generous plot. This gets buckets of sun and is 40 feet by 20 feet. You share useful side access with your owner-occupier neighbours in the flat upstairs – so handy for gardening, rolling bikes/buggies through, or for welcoming (or waving off!) your BBQ guests.

Recently-installed traditional timber double-glazed sash and casement windows (SJB) seriously impress. The size and scale of the property will knock your socks off as well! At 1120 square feet, your new home is the size of an average Victorian terrace.

And the location is tough to beat: enjoy a leafy residential position near TH’s Lower (hillside) Park, just a four minute walk from New Cross Gate Station (one stop to London Bridge) and from various excellent bus routes (like the 21 to London Bridge, the nippy BL1 to Waterloo, the 453 to Marylebone, and the 436 to Battersea). Parking is unrestricted, on-street and there are bike hangars close by.

There are just two flats in the building and you share a main front door and entrance hall. Yours is the door on the right. In here and you have two large and light bedrooms resting to your right. The ceiling height is simply excellent. The first bedroom is over 16 feet by over 12 feet, with stripped original wooden floors, an attractive central fireplace (we love the classy marble surround) and a dreamy bay window to pretty street vistas.

Next door is bedroom two, at over 13 feet by over 12 feet, with a pale carpet to the floor and a cute feature fireplace.

Moving through the flat, next on your right is the windowed bathroom, with a simple and timeless white suite, and a stainless steel heated towel radiator.

Next door is your fitted kitchen, where smart units are paired with wooden worktops. You can get to the wide side-return/passage to the garden from here.

At the foot of the hall you have your delightful reception room which gets wonderful morning sun thanks to its easterly orientation and big bay window French doors therein. It is 20 feet by nearly 12 feet, easily accommodating seating and dining areas.

There’s more! The lower ground floor hosts a tiled, plumbed and windowed utility/store room of 13 feet each way. You could make much more of it if you were so inclined/needed more space.

What a jolly nice spot to lay one's hat! Once home to the Victorian poet Robert Browning, the neighbourhood was developed in the late C19th, replacing market gardens owned by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers (who controlled the development) with high-standard housing. As well as the attractive architecture and fancy street lamps, what stands here now is a friendly hillside community with excellent connections to central London, alongside great schools and parks.

Local children attend highly-regarded Edmund Waller Primary and the through-school Hatcham College (3-18). There are several good nurseries within easy reach, too.

Telegraph Hill’s Victorian Parks (Upper and Lower) are fab, as is The Hill Station cafe with a pizza place on-site and community events/gigs aplenty. There is a monthly Farmers’ Market held in the Lower Park, or nip down to Brockley Market, which is held on Saturdays in the Lewisham College Car Park (fancier than it sounds!).

A large Sainsbury's and a TK Maxx store sit behind NXG station, and cafes, pubs, takeaways etc. flank New Cross Road.

Brockley has some great neighbourhood cafes and eateries including Ellary’s, Mauby, Cantinera, Browns of Brockley, Broca and Good as Gold, plus cocktail bar Brickfields, ice cream parlour Sundae, and Brockley Brewery Taproom.

In nearby Nunhead we like BARD4100, El Vermut, Mother Superior and Goodcup/Goodnights. The long-established wet fish shop and bakery are also great.

Trendy Deptford is fairly close as well, for all manner of places to eat and drink for all budgets, including SALT, Jazu, Villages, Jars Bar, Tea House, The Watergate, The Dog & Bell and Marcella.

Peckham's Rye Lane and Bellenden Road are also a short walk/bus/cycle ride for more options.

Close to Queens Road Peckham Station, you have some strong spots as well. We like Connie’s (pizzeria), Eagle Eats and Blackbird (bakeries) and Peckham Cellars.