Waller Road

Dishy two double bed Victorian conversion leasehold flat of 848 square feet (inclusive of the cellar space) within New Cross’s Telegraph Hill conservation area, with a pretty and east-facing lawned garden. Parking is unrestricted, on-street. 

Once home to Victorian poet Robert Browning, this smart neighbourhood with London skyline views and wide and tree-lined streets 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 lovely, leafy community with good connections to central London alongside great schools and parks. 

Original wrought iron balustrades and a communal front garden make for a pleasing welcome to the building. From the neat shared hall your front door sits to the right. From your hall, swing a right into the largest of the bedrooms (it’s over 14 feet by over 10) which has high ceilings, a period fireplace, ceiling rose, coving, dado rail, sash windows in the bay, stripped floorboards, and built-in shelving to one of the alcoves. Adjacent is the second sash-windowed double bedroom of over 11 feet by over 10. Again you have stripped floors and white walls. 

Moving through the flat, taking a few white-painted stairs down, on your left is access to a handy cellar space that’s great for storage. Straight ahead is a generous and solid oak-floored kitchen/diner with slick white fitted units with stone worktops, recessed lighting, white walls, and the property’s second bay window; this time onto the side-return area, facing south. Next up is the modern bathroom with contemporary white sanitaryware including oversized basin, and an over bath shower and heated towel rail. There’s a back door at the foot of the kitchen/diner by the bathroom door, and you can also access the garden from the reception room at the rear of the flat (an extension of the property’s original footprint). The reception room has white walls, oak floors, recessed lights, and gives great garden views from its folding timber-framed doors - which take nearly the entire rear wall - and the room’s especially light thanks to two large skylight windows. You have electric underfloor heating to the kitchen/diner, bathroom and sitting room.

The garden’s a delight - framed with greenery, quiet, and newly landscaped, with limestone paving, raised beds and a sun-trap terrace, plus a large lawned area. It’s productive as well as pretty; with mature apple and fig trees plus herbs (including rosemary, fennel, thyme and sage). External lighting’s a winner too - either side of the folding doors and also by the back door. 

Getting around: Nunhead station is an under-10 minute walk, or you are a 15 minute walk from Brockley, New Cross Gate and Queens Road Peckham stations. This sets you up beautifully for all commutes. Bus routes also run day and night from nearby New Cross and Queens Roads. 

Telegraph Hill is a corker of a community to call home and hosts an annual festival in March plus a Christmas panto, showcasing local talent. Telegraph Hill’s Victorian Parks (Upper and Lower) are delightful, as is The Hill Station community cafe. There’s a weekly Saturday market held in the Lower Park, or nip down to Brockley Market (held on Saturdays in the Lewisham College Car Park). 

Nunhead with its high street village feel is really close: we like Ayres bakery, Bambuni deli and FC Soper wet fish shop, as well as El Vermut, The Old Nun’s Head and Babette. We’re big fans of New Cross’s centre too, with its pretty, historical buildings and growing number of pubs and eateries, including The Rosemary (organic Hungarian fayre), The White Hart, The Rose Inn, The Telegraph at the Earl of Derby, The Amersham Arms and The London Particular cafe. Thanks to Goldsmiths University, New Cross attracts a cool creative crowd and has a contemporary gallery and Curzon cinema – both open to the public. A big Sainsbury’s store by NXG Station is on hand for ‘the big shop’. Deptford High Street is fairly close too for classy restaurants including Marcella and The Winemakers Club. And of course Peckham is also close for more options.

Local schools are extremely well-regarded and include Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College (covering 3-18), St James's Hatcham Church of England Primary (3-11) and Edmund Waller Primary (3-11). There is also a popular nursery on Kitto Road.