Brixton Road, London, SW9

This astutely reconfigured three-bedroom apartment trades the usual compartmentalised Victorian layout for volume and flow, its rooms reordered around a glazed rear extension that lifts the ceiling and pulls in light. Wrapped by gardens front and rear, it feels serene, whilst still being well connected to Stockwell and Brixton.

Set back from the road behind a large front garden, entry is to the side and opens into a central hallway, which leads into the open-plan kitchen and living space. Walls in soft grey and off-white are paired with an engineered oak floor that runs throughout and draws the rooms together.

The living space flows into the rear glass extension that houses the kitchen. Dark-framed glazing runs across the back, and roof lights above pull daylight from the garden side through the plan. Handleless cabinetry in a pale celadon sits beneath a white worktop, neat and quietly hard-wearing, over the same oak floor, with integrated appliances all recently renewed.

The private garden unfolds from the kitchen, informal and green, with an established grape vine trained overhead that fruits into the autumn and mature planting forming a peaceful enclave. A paved terrace gives an easy place for a table and for eating outside. Off-street parking on a private driveway and a garden shed sit alongside, an unusual chance to add real value and your own stamp to an already well-conceived flat, whether by laying the space back into garden or building further, subject to the usual consents.

At the front, a large, well-tended shared garden is thoughtfully organised for the residents, and the building itself is well kept and welcoming, with a true sense of community among those who live here.

The principal bedroom, one of three, has its own en-suite shower room. The second sits at the front of the plan and is currently configured as a study and office. The third is a cosy and quiet room that takes a double, an ideal guest room or study.

The family bathroom holds both a bath and a shower, lined in white metro tiling over a blue-and-white encaustic-pattern floor, and the en-suite continues the same palette as a walk-in shower.

Brixton Road follows the line of the old Roman road to Brighton, and much of its length still keeps the Regency and Victorian frontage that once ran almost unbroken from Kennington down to Brixton. This northern stretch grew as Stockwell filled in through the nineteenth century, a district of stock-brick terraces and villas set behind mature gardens, with Beresford Pite’s Neo-Byzantine Christ Church of 1902 standing at its northern end.

There is plenty nearby for eating and drinking, with cafés and everyday shops close at hand. Cable Café and Di Lieto Bakery are both worth knowing, and there are good pubs within reach, among them the Canton Arms and the Camberwell Arms.

For green space, Slade Gardens is a short walk from the door, and the fourteen-acre expanse of Myatt’s Fields Park, with its Sunday market, lies to the east. For transport, Stockwell station is the closest, with Oval and Brixton also within reach, together giving Victoria and Northern line connections into central London and beyond. Regular buses along Brixton Road run north towards Waterloo and south to Brixton.