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Wednesday 2 April 2014 What to see Homes& in April Fabric, ceramics and furniture shows Property Page 17 NEW HOMES ON THE NORTHERN LINE P6 CHISWICK FOR £5K P10 GLORIOUS GEORGIANS P12 SPOTLIGHT ON HAMMERSMITH P32 High priests of style Fabulous London homes Page 26 London’s best property search website: homesandproperty.co.uk 2 WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Online homesandproperty.co.uk with This week: homesandproperty.co.uk news: we’re all living in a boom town. Property But how long will it last? search £530,000: a two- bedroom flat in Lower Clapton London buy of the week Road, near Hackney Downs it’s playtime in Wandsworth train station. O homesand £645,000: this Wandsworth home — set on a private property.co.uk/ development opposite open playing fields — is a bit of a lowerclapton find. A new refit to its 1,022 square footage means you can move straight in to enjoy sleek oak floors, a smart kitchen MORE than a dozen buyers are chasing every house for and spacious reception room with wood shutters that fold sale in London — driving soaring prices. back to reveal a conservatory opening on to a patio The average seller in once-grim Hackney, where prices garden. Upstairs has three plush bedrooms and a slate- have risen 20 per cent in a year according to the Land tiled bathroom. Southfields Tube is a stroll away, as are Registry, is bombarded with five offers from eager buyers Garratt Lane’s shops and bars. Through John D Wood. looking to live in one of London’s fastest-changing boroughs. Meanwhile, only three London districts now O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/buyoftheweekwands have average house prices below the £250,000 stamp duty threshold— Barking & Dagenham, with an average £234,283; Bexley, on £248,383, and Newham, on £239,942. Out of town buy of the week work at Experts today called these growth levels “unsustainable” and warned buyers to expect an immediate slowdown home, have a lunchtime dip in your pool when mortgage rates rise next year or the year after. £650,000: views of the local church level and three more upstairs, one of O Read Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk and picturesque village can be which is en suite. A detached annexe enjoyed from this Grade II-listed provides a fifth bedroom with kitchen thatch in pretty Iwerne Minster, and living areas, plus office space hot homes: take a Tube tour North Dorset. Glorious gardens with a allowing you to work from home — heated pool will be a treat this or earn a pretty penny from letting it. south along the Northern line summer, while inside offers a mass of Through Palmer Snell. £480,000: a beams and lovely open fireplaces in three-bedroom the sitting, dining and breakfast O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/ terrace house rooms. There is a bedroom at ground outiwerne less than half a mile from High Barnet Tube. Life changer dwell in the O Visit homes Dales and run a homely B&B andproperty. co.uk/teyn £695,000: dreams of a small business empire might just WITH exclusive research into new train routes, we begin be fulfilled in Kettlewell, North Yorkshire, where you can the second part of our series predicting homes hotspots take the reins at this popular B&B. Littlebeck thrives on on the Tube network, this time looking at the Northern being a home from home with its inviting sitting room line — London’s busiest rush-hour service (see Page 6 in where guests can relax by the log fire after exploring the Homes & Property today). A new 24-hour weekend countryside. A further open fire can be found in the dining service is set to connect revellers to the West End from room, leading to a beautifully bespoke kitchen complete next year, while additional lines will open into deepest with an Aga. There are utility and drying rooms, and five south London from 2018. Join us on a property tour as we bedrooms, three en suite. Through Carter Jonas. find homes at every stop from High Barnet to Morden. By O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/lifechangerkettle Faye Greenslade O Join the tour at homesandproperty.co.uk/northern Editor: Visit Grand Designs Live Janice Morley We have 1,000 pairs of tickets ready to give away GRAND DESIGNS LIVE, sponsored by VISIT homesandproperty.co. Anglian Home Improvements, returns uk/rules for details of our to ExCeL for the 10th consecutive year usual promotion rules. When from May 3 to May 10, 10am to 6pm you respond to promotions, and May 11, 10am to 5pm. 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A local Efamily-run firm that has grown into the UK’s biggest fine arts specialist and framers has become the catalyst for change at Finsbury Park. is a bit of a This unassuming urban strip in north London is about to get a dazzling new building commissioned by the Jones family. The John Jones Arts Building, which launches next month, is part of local hero a multimillion-pound broader council- backed arts-led project in a cosmo- politan part of London that has missed out on regeneration for decades. in Finsbury This new cultural hub, wrapped around the railway station, is set to signal the transition from a faded neighbourhood to a fashionable one. As well as an exhibition and gallery Park space, the building will host talks, seminars and workshops, and support emerging artists. Its raw industrial, stripped-back interior with a jazzy This neighbourhood’s on the fast café would not be out of place in Clerkenwell . track to becoming an arts hub John Jones’s daughter-in-law Kate, 32, is project development manager. She with smart flats, shops and says: “We believe cultural regeneration will enrich the area. Our hope is that galleries — thanks to a family we will be able to offer employment and apprenticeships, and foster local with vision, says David Spittles talent.” Flats for University of the Arts stu- dents attending its nearby King’s Cross campus are being built on the site, formerly a low-rise industrial estate. This will add to the creative vibe. Park Theatre opened last year and is part of the regeneration programme. Some smart homes are planned for the area and will launch within weeks on neighbouring industrial land. City North, with 308 apartments , is all part of this, the largest regeneration scheme in Islington borough since Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium project. It will bring CITY BEAT AND OPEN SPACE Green Park combined, with a boating a tree-lined piazza at the base of two 21- Why has it failed to take off like other lake, tea pavilion and athletics stadium. storey towers plus shops, restaurants, close-in areas? Partly because it is the The park is also the starting point of a bars, an art house cinema and a gym. victim of geography. Being placed traffic-free pedestrian and cycle route Another local family, the Morrises, where three boroughs — Islington, extending to Highgate Woods. who own the Business Design Centre Hackney and Haringey — meet, there Upgrading of the scruffy patch around Group in Islington, are among the joint has been little co-ordinated planning. the station includes an art project venture partners. Launching in June, Close to Highbury’s handsome ter- focusing on two Victorian railway prices range from £300,000 for a races, Finsbury Park has its own varied bridges, with the aim of exposing the studio to £1.5 million for a penthouse stock of period houses crying out for original structures and opening up with roof terrace. Completion is due in young families to colonise, while the railway arches to provide a direct link 2016. Call 020 7087 5536. new-build apartments sprouting up are to the park.