Perfect View & Camden Road, Bath, BA1

A VIEW THAT BECOMES PART OF YOUR LIFE
Imagine waking as the first light begins to move across the hills, with Bath and the surrounding countryside unfolding beneath you. From Brown’s Folly in the distance, your eye travels across a vast sweep of woodland, rooftops and sky until it reaches Bath Abbey, rising unmistakably from the heart of the city. As the day changes, so does the view: morning mist caught between the hills, long summer evenings turning the skyline gold, and the lights of Bath beginning to twinkle as darkness falls. This is not simply a view you admire from time to time. It becomes part of the rhythm of living here.

Welcome to The Firs.

A HOME MADE FOR FAMILY LIFE
Family life has room to unfold here. Children can spill out into the garden, friends can gather around the table, grandparents can come to stay and everyone can find a corner to call their own. Weekends might begin slowly over breakfast outside, turn into an afternoon in the garden and end with everyone gathered around the fire as the sun disappears behind the hills. And when you want the city, simply wander down through Hedgemead Park and into the heart of Bath.

GEORGIAN CHARACTER, LIGHT AND SPACE
The Firs has that wonderful sense of generosity you only find in a substantial period house. Beautifully proportioned rooms unfold around the central staircase, with high ceilings, tall sash windows, original wooden floorboards and fireplaces bringing character everywhere you look. Then there are the gorgeous original stained-glass windows, casting shifting pools of colour across the walls and staircase as the light changes throughout the day. And on every floor, the south-facing windows bring you back to that extraordinary panorama, your eye travelling for miles across Bath, woodland and rolling countryside, discovering a different perspective from each room and the simple joy of meeting that view again and again.

THE HEART OF EVERYDAY LIFE
At the heart of everyday life is an open kitchen and dining space that connects beautifully with the rest of the ground floor. At the front, pull up a chair at the table by the sash window, pour your morning coffee and watch Bath wake up below you, or let the children claim it for breakfast with one of the best views in the city stretching out before them. To the rear, a generous dining table gives everyone somewhere to come together for family suppers and long evenings with friends.

Across the hallway, the sitting room becomes a natural extension of this sociable space, allowing conversation and family life to flow easily between the rooms. Just beyond the dining area, a second reception room gives you wonderful flexibility as life changes, whether it becomes a playroom filled with toys, a relaxed second sitting room or a dedicated study. From here, the utility room keeps the practical side of family life beautifully organised, while direct access to the rear courtyard lets you move naturally between indoors and out as the warmth and light shift around the house on summer days.

WAKE UP TO THE HORIZON
Follow the staircase upwards and family life begins to spread out in a completely different way. Five beautiful bedrooms are joined by two wonderfully flexible rooms, giving you the freedom to create whatever your life calls for, from a peaceful study or dressing room to a playroom, creative space or private retreat for older children.

But it is the south-facing rooms that will steal your heart. Their generous proportions allow you to draw a chair or table up to the tall sash windows and simply stop for a while, with your gaze travelling far beyond the rooftops, across the wooded slopes and out towards the countryside. Imagine waking to that horizon every day. Read beside it in the afternoon, take your morning coffee upstairs, or watch the last light fade across Bath before drawing the curtains at night.

A GARDEN ABOVE BATH
Step outside and the whole landscape seems to fall away before you, Bath unfolding below and the wooded hills rolling away into the distance. The garden becomes somewhere to spend the day, with lawns, mature planting and different places to sit, dine and follow the sun. Running alongside it, the gorgeous original Georgian red-brick wall brings warmth, texture and a wonderful sense of history, its mellow brick softened by years of planting.

Spread out on the lawn, gather around the table for lunch, then light the fire as evening draws in and watch the changing light travel across the valley. Once you have experienced living with a view like this, it becomes difficult to imagine wanting to come home to anything else.

A SECLUDED COURTYARD AND SPACE FOR FAMILY LIFE
At the other side of the house, the rear courtyard has a character all of its own. Layered with pots and planting, it becomes a wonderfully secluded oasis on warm summer days, with direct gated access onto quiet Perfect View. It also makes family life remarkably easy, with generous sheds and outbuildings ready to absorb the bikes, scooters, sports kit, gardening equipment and all the paraphernalia that comes with a busy household.

And then there is something every Bath family will appreciate: your own garage at street level on Camden Road. A secure place for the car, bikes and everything else you want readily to hand, right at home.

BETWEEN BATH AND LARKHALL
This is one of those rare Bath locations where you never really have to choose between city and village life. The centre of Bath is within walking distance, while in the other direction Larkhall gives you the kind of everyday life people move across the city to find, with independent shops, cafés, a deli, butcher, theatre and a genuine sense of community. Some of Bath’s most sought-after schools are close by too, making mornings simpler and giving children the freedom that comes with growing up somewhere so well connected.

You can walk into town for dinner, meet friends for coffee, pick up supper locally and feel part of a neighbourhood where people know one another. And then you come home, close the gate and rise above it all. At The Firs, you can have all the privacy and seclusion you could wish for, while remaining completely connected to the life and community around you. You have Bath at your feet, Larkhall around the corner and a real community on your doorstep, while at home the views, gardens and sense of space make the city feel a world away.

A REMARKABLE PLACE TO CALL HOME
The Firs gives you something increasingly rare in Bath: the space for family life to grow, the freedom to shape a substantial period house around the way you want to live, a beautiful garden, your own garage, a genuine community and the city within walking distance.

But perhaps what stays with you most is how it feels to be here. The light. The sense of space. The quiet. And that extraordinary horizon appearing through the windows, changing with the weather, the seasons and the time of day.

This is a house that gives you Bath as part of your everyday life, and a view you will never tire of coming home to.

THE STORY OF THE FIRS
And if you would like to know what it is really like to live at The Firs, watch our three films with owners Lizzie Heffer and Bob Crampton. They share the story of raising their family here and the many happy decades they have spent in the house, from living with those extraordinary views and the remarkable convenience of the location to being part of the close-knit Camden and Perfect View communities they have come to know so well.