Onslow Gardens, South Kensington, SW7

An impressive triplex apartment arranged across three floors of a South Kensington townhouse.

Stepping into the apartment, a stone-paved entrance hall leads to a staircase with a carpet runner bordered in red, rising behind an ornate iron balustrade. The first floor holds two beautifully proportioned reception rooms, with wooden floorboards and each with a marble fireplace. One room is flanked by built-in shelving painted a soft blue-grey, its tall French doors opening to a balcony with a white balustrade, while the other opens through to a further room.

The kitchen sits beneath two broad skylights, fitted with white cabinetry, stone worktops, a double basin with brass tap, double ovens, and a wine rack.

Bedrooms are carpeted and generously sized, several with fitted wardrobes, open shelving and a broad bay window, and more than one retaining a fireplace. A walk-in dressing room is lined with cabinetry on both sides. The bathrooms include one with twin sinks and a bath with wall-mounted taps, a shower room behind a glass screen, and a cloakroom with an arched mirror above a band of blue and purple tiles.

Lofty proportions, ornate cornicing and ceiling roses, marble fireplaces, tall sash and bay windows, wooden floorboards across the reception floor, stone paving to the entrance hall and decorative iron balustrades.

A balcony with a white balustrade runs off the principal reception room, overlooking the street. At the top of the building, a decked roof terrace is enclosed by decorative wrought iron railings, with two skylights set into the decking and an outlook towards neighbouring rooftops and a church spire. A further decked terrace is bounded by trellis fencing.

Onslow Gardens is an attractive, tree-lined street of white stucco townhouses in the heart of South Kensington. South Kensington station, on the Piccadilly, District and Circle lines, is a short walk away, as is Gloucester Road. The artistic treasures of Exhibition Road — the Natural History Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Science Museum — are within easy reach, along with the open spaces of Onslow Square gardens and the upmarket boutiques, cafés and restaurants of the Fulham Road and Old Brompton Road.