St-Margaret's Road, Kensal Green, NW10

St Margaret's Road, Kensal Green NW10

On one of Kensal Green's best-loved tree-lined streets, this Victorian house takes the classic period template and adds three genuine surprises: a kitchen-diner extension built to properly impress, an outdoor space unlike anything else on the road and a loft bathroom that steals the show.

A ground floor built to gather in

The front reception room sets a calm, characterful tone with its bay windows, open fireplace and enough depth to make it feel generous rather than boxy. But it is the kitchen-diner beyond that this house is really about: a full-width, glass-roofed extension where the ceiling seems to disappear into skylight, light pours down over a long central island and rich dark cabinetry meets an exposed brick wall for real warmth and texture. Sliding glass doors run the width of the room, so cooking, eating and gathering happen in one uninterrupted, sun-filled space that pulls the garden straight in. A downstairs WC sits just off this floor for everyday ease.

A garden with a shape of its own

Step outside and the garden does something most London plots never attempt: rather than a straight rectangle, it curves as an almost apse-like courtyard wrapped in high walls with a sweeping built-in bench seat following the curve and a mirror set into the planting that quietly doubles the sense of space. Dressed with olive trees and soft greenery, it feels less like a garden and more like a private outdoor room: intimate, sheltered and genuinely unlike anything next door. Its west facing aspect provides you natural light throughout the year.

Bedrooms and a bathroom worth talking about

Three further bedrooms sit on the first floor, one with fitted wardrobes served by a beautifully finished family bathroom with both a bath and a separate walk-in shower beneath green herringbone tiling, its vanity fashioned from a reclaimed antique sideboard.

Above it all, the loft is given over entirely to a principal bedroom suite stretching the full width of the house, lit by two skylights with built-in eaves storage tucked beneath the slopes. Its ensuite is the house's real showstopper: floor-to-ceiling book-matched marble-effect porcelain, a full walk-in wet-room shower and sculptural black fittings that would not feel out of place in a boutique hotel. A genuine reason to linger.

The location

St Margaret's Road sits at the heart of Kensal Green, within easy reach of College Road, Chamberlayne Road and Salusbury Road, all known for their independent restaurants, pubs and boutiques. Queen's Park, with its tennis courts, golf course and café, is close by, as are the celebrated Golborne Road and Portobello Road markets, and the Grand Union Canal for those who enjoy a riverside walk. Kensal Rise (Overground), Kensal Green and Queen's Park (Bakerloo line and Overground) stations provide excellent connections into the city, and families are well served by Princess Frederica, Ark Academy and Kenmont Primary, alongside a strong selection of private schools nearby.