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Welcome to our patch from John Horton e have seen a refreshingly busy start to 2015. The phones have been ringing hot with tenants looking Wto register, rent a property and with buyers commencing their search for Cover story: their next family home, while sellers are beginning to prepare their properties SHEILA HANCOCK IS HAVING TIME OF HER LIFE 6-9 ready for the spring market. Hammersmith actor, author, campaigner and now BBC DJ tells us My advice to any vendor or landlord that she’s in the mood to re-invent herself yet again. Watch out... would be to contact your estate agents now and consider bringing forward your decision making. Our busy office FEATURED PARTNER: What’s on: 4-5 has grown to 11 full-time members of PATISSERIE SAINTE-ANNE 11 From the Apollo to Bush Hall, the Oooh la la! A taste of France is winning best in theatre, music, comedy & arts hearts and minds in Hammersmith The talk of interest rates, FEATURED PROPERTY: stamp duty and mansion tax PARTNERS: 10–13 RAVENSCOURT ROAD 20 is keeping everyone guessing Shop local! We bring you eight more A substantial semi-detached Victorian local businesses and their free offers family house with off street parking located in Ravenscourt Road staff so we are ideally positioned to THE YEAR AHEAD: assist you. So if you are buying, selling BUY, SELL OR RENT in 2015? 14-16 or renting – talk to us! All the current talk of interest Our expert guide to the best way to play rates, the recent stamp duty changes, the market. Hold on for a wild ride SALE challenges with mortgage lending, FOR mansion tax, inflation and deflation is GOING OUT: keeping everyone guessing on how the VALENTINE’s NIGHT 17 market will react this year. A special occasion requires special However, Hammersmith and attention. Four tips for a great date Shepherds Bush continue to be a first choice for the professional City tenants MAKING GOOD: and particularly for many family buyers TIME TO ADD A BATHROOM? 18-19 leaving Zone 1 (especially Notting Hill Unusual request for an ensuite or Marylebone) who seek out the new flushed out some great design ideas frontier of Zone 2. Read our thoughts Property grid: 21–22 about the year ahead on pages 14-16. PUBLISHED BY DISCLAIMER The search for your west London dream Meanwhile, last year was full of Horton and Garton We thank our advertisers www.hortonandgarton.co.uk for supporting Our Patch, home starts here! awards for Our Patch and us. See page 23. but Horton and Garton does not accept responsibility So may I take this opportunity to Editor for goods or services offered Geoff Cowart by advertisers OUR PATCH gONG: 23 offer a big ‘thank you’ to all of our

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2 February 4 February guitarist Jake Zaitz and l Islands, l Raised embroidery saxophonist Mike Paice. Bush Theatre W12 workshop, Fulham 7.30pm. £10 A frolicking drama which Palace SW6 www.brooksbluesbar.co.uk lifts the lid on the absurdity Learn a variety of stitch of tax havens and offshore methods, from covered beads 8 February evasion, and exposes the to canvas stump applique at l Milky Chance, Shepherds human cost via black a full-day workshop led by Bush Empire W12 comedy. Written by Caroline Owen Davies of the Royal Timed to coincide with Horton and directed by Omar School of Needlework. All the release of debut album Elerian, the show runs until abilities welcome. Sadnecessary, this is the 21 February, with a post- 10am-4pm. £45 & £10 for kit first of two nights by the show debate on 9 February. www.fulhampalace.org duo whose single Down By 7.30pm. £19.50 (£12 concs) The River has been making www.bushtheatre.co.uk 7 February waves. 7pm. £16.87 l Dana Gillespie, Brooks www.02shepherdsbushempire. 2 February Blues Bar W6 co.uk Othello Five-times winner of the title of top British female blues 12 February vocalist, Dana Gillespie is a l Hiss Golden Messenger, blues diva who has been at Bush Hall W12 the pinnacle for more than Country rocker MC Taylor 40 years, and who has and his North Carolinian recorded more than 60 ensemble Hiss Golden albums. She appears with Messenger gives Shepherds boogie pianist Dino Baptiste, Bush another chance to hear

25 February Eddie Izzard 2 February l Othello, Lyric W6 Last six days of Frantic Assembly’s ultra-modern take on Shakespeare’s thriller/ tragedy, set around a pub pool table. A fast-paced, choreographed adaptation with rowdy music and scenes of violence. 7.30pm. £15 www.lyric.co.uk

3 February l The Bear, Barons Court Theatre W14 STAND UP FOR SHELTER: A dark comedy, based on an Anton Chekov play, and EDDIE IZZARD & JOSH WIDDICOMBE directed by Nick Pelas. EVENTIM APOLLO, W6 Time Out describes it as a ‘great interpretation’, and 25 February it lends itself to the Comedians Eddie Izzard and baby-faced Josh Widdicombe 12 February subterranean intimacy of the headline this one-night show to benefit homeless charity Groovy folk troubadour Barons Court Theatre. Shows Shelter. “Please buy a ticket, have a laugh and support a Hiss Golden Messenger every evening at 7.30pm, great charity at the same time,” says Eddie. Christian returns to Bush Hall except 9 Feb. £14 (£11 concs) O’Connell hosts. 7pm. £38.25 www.eventimapollo.com www.offwestend.com

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19 February has been nothing short of a debut solo album Yorktown l Ibeyi, Bush Hall W12 revelation, teaming up with Heights, so the Feeder lead Ibeyi are 19-year-old French Roots drummer Questlove guitarist will be polished and Cuban twins, Naomi and to deliver a rollicking and perfected when he takes to Lisa-Kainde Diaz. They are politically charged sermon the stage. A new clutch of daughters of the late Cuban with a side of Sly to boot. largely acoustic songs have a percussion Anga Diaz. Naomi 7.30pm. From £40.75 freshness and vim which has plays percussive instruments, www.eventimapollo.com attracted critical acclaim. the Cajon and the Batas, It’s also Grant’s most while Lisa plays piano. 26 February personal work to date. “I Together the twins combine l Grant Nicholas, Bush definitely had a Seventies modern pop, hip-hop and Hall, W12 vibe in my head for the new electronic influences with the He’s coming to the end of record,” he says. 7.30pm. £16 traditional sounds of their his UK tour, promoting www.bushhallmusic.co.uk father’s Yorùbán culture. one of the finest singer 7.30pm. £12 songwriters on the circuit, www.bushhallmusic.co.uk coinciding with the recent WIN FREE BUSH HALL TICKETS! release of his ace Lateness of 20 February Dancers album. 7.30pm. £14 l Opera at the Palace, JOLIE HOLLAND www.bushhallmusic.co.uk Fulham Palace SW6 Young opera stars from the 14 February National Opera Studio l Shoe Kangaroo & the gather in the Great Hall of Big Bad Boot, Lyric W6 Fulham Palace for an If you’ve ever wondered evening of operatic singing. where odd shoes go, here’s Make a proper night of it the answer. A charming by having a three-course children’s production is dinner too. 6pm. £62.50 for centred on the Island of Lost concert and dinner. 7.30pm. Shoes, where footwear- £22.50, concert only. influenced creatures live… www.fulhampalace.org 17 February among them the Shoe Jolie Holland Kangaroo. 11am and 1pm. Ideal for ages 4 to 7. £8 www.lyric.co.uk >> Jolie Holland is performing on Tuesday, February 17, at the popular Bush Hall in Uxbridge Road, Shepherds 17 February Bush, and we have TWO pairs of tickets to give away to l Time for Heroes, Barons the Texan singer-songwriter’s west London gig. The Court Theatre W14 travelling performer’s European tour includes a couple of Menelaos Karantzas directs UK gigs supporting Elbow, while her solo concerts focus Kevin Lee’s provocative on tracks from her new, critically acclaimed folk/jazz tale of former soldiers in album, Wine Dark Sea. A spearkling showcast of her Afghanistan in which a innovative writing style, it is Jolie’s fifth studio album. comrade of a lance corporal 20-21 February As well as Britain, Jolie is also performing in the killed in action appears on D’Angelo Netherlands, Germany, Spain and France. But most the doorstep of the grieving importantly, she’s coming to visit us in Shepherds Bush. family. Runs until 1 March, every night bar Mondays. 20-21 February 7.30pm. £12 (£10 concs) l D’Angelo, Eventim www.offwestend.com Apollo W6 The son of a Baptist 18 February preacher, D’Angelo began l Hammersmith Salsa experimenting with Club, 11 Rutland Grove W6 keyboards around the age Get fit, make friends, loosen of three. Today, he is one HOW TO WIN: up. No booking needed; of the sultry soul legends >> To be in with a chance of winning one of two pairs of just comfy shoes. Up to of his generation, thanks to tickets to see Jolie Holland, simply answer this question: 200 dancers of all abilities his classic Nineties albums, What is the name of Jolie’s latest album? Send your answer, enjoy dancing to the latest Brown Sugar and Voodoo. full name and address and a daytime phone number to: Latin grooves. Courses also Dropping a long-awaited new [email protected] Usual rules apply. available. 7pm. £8 album last December, Black Competition closes on February 10. Good luck! www.incognitodance.com Messiah, his second coming Our Patch february 2015

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Sheila Hancock talks page-turning with a Manchester Literature Festival crowd last year

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TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF Hammersmith actor, author and now DJ tells Tim Harrison that she’s in the mood to re-invent herself. Yet again...» Our Patch february 2015

areer changes can be daunting, but as she approaches her 82nd birthday, Sheila Hancock is undergoing three. The actor, film maker Cand panellist (she’s figured onJust A Minute for nearly half a century, and was famously a Grumpy Old Woman) is now reinventing herself as novelist, public speaker and DJ. Her debut novel, Miss Carter’s War, was published last autumn, examining the social upheaval of the post-war decades through the eyes of a teacher. Promoting the book has entailed giving dozens of talks to roomfuls of the enraptured… while she has also become a Radio 2 DJ, mastering not only the skills of interviewing celebs on air, but also the art of fading music in and out at precisely the right point. “I suppose Radio 4 and 3 is my natural home, but I really enjoy all this disc jockey thing,” she said, as we chatted over morning coffee at High Road House in Chiswick High Road. “People like Chris Evans and Graham Norton are just so marvellous at it. Michael Ball told me that I must learn to do all the mixing myself. Although I mainly listen to classical music, I’m getting more into modern music. I interviewed Noel Gallagher; he grew up on the same estate as my husband.” She has already written about her life with John Thaw, and about the challenges of coping after his death (at her Hammersmith home are 20 Sheila Hancock stars in box files of letters written by people Harold Pinter’s play The Birthday Party inspired and comforted by her words at the Lyric with on bereavement), but Miss Carter’s Justin Salinger in 2008 War is the first time she has let her imagination soar in print, even if the book is grounded in the factual events of Britain in the second half of the Hammersmith thanks to the nagging of eventually paid off the mortgage. We 20th Century. her window cleaner! sold it at a profit, and I was off! I love “Hammersmith Council gave me my the river, and the diversity of the area, The book involved a lot of first mortgage,” she said. “I was living and the fact that we have every single in a basement flat in St Peter’s Square ethnic restaurant you can find.” research. As an actor I’m with my first daughter, hanging the Sheila performed many times at the always looking at people and nappies up to dry, and Charlie Jackson, Lyric Theatre where her daughter now I have a store of characters the window cleaner, knocked at my works as a drama therapist, completing window and said a house nearby in a neat family circle. Black Lion Lane was coming up for sale. “I did several shows at the Lyric, “A novel is a jump,” she conceded. He said I should buy it. including One To Another, with Beryl “It took me four years to research, and “I didn’t know what a mortgage Reid, which had sketches by people I’ve now got to the age where I don’t was, but Charlie took me along to the like NF Simpson and Harold Pinter, think I could do all that research again. council and I got a mortgage and a who I’d done rep with,” she said. If I do write another, it would have to building grant too, as it had an outside Other Lyric performances down be quicker!” loo. I owe everything to dear Charlie; the years have included Prin (1989), She has a huge affection for W6 he got me on the housing ladder. The Way of the World (1992) and and W4, having set down her roots in “I paid £3,000 for the house, and The Birthday Party (2008), while she

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>> It is 1948 and Britain is struggling to recover from the Second World War. Half French, half English, Marguerite Carter, young and beautiful, has lost her parents and survived a terrifying war, working for the SOE behind enemy lines. Leaving her partisan lover she returns to England to be one of the first women to receive a degree from the University of Cambridge. Sheila Hancock Now she pins back her unruly acting in film auburn curls, draws a pencil seam ‘Delicious’. Below, up her legs, ties the laces on her with comedian sensible black shoes, belts her grey Lee Evans gabardine mac and sets out towards her future as an English teacher in a girls’ grammar school. For Miss Carter has a mission – to fight social injustice, to prevent war and to educate her girls. Through deep friendships and love lost and found, from the Fifties’ peace marches and the flowering of the Swinging Sixties, to the rise of Thatcher and the battle for gay rights, to the spectre of a new war, Sheila Hancock has also directed The Soldier’s Fortune in created a powerful, panoramic Hammersmith in 1981. portrait of Britain through the life Sheila’s recent career branchings are of a singular woman. not the result of conscious planning. “I’m endlessly curious,” she said. “If HOW TO WIN: will be sent an unsigned copy of people ask me to do something I’ve >> To be in with a chance of winning Miss Carter’s War. To enter, send your never done before, I tend to do it.” one of two signed copies of Miss answer, full name and address and a She has always had a strong social Carter’s War, just answer this daytime phone number to: office@ question: conscience and a powerful left-leaning Who gave Sheila Hancock her hortonandgarton.co.uk Usual rules first mortgage? Three lucky runners-up political outlook. apply. Closes February 14. Good luck! Mention of the rise of UKIP leads to pursed lips and a narrowing of the eyes. “It depresses me,” she said. Experienced writers always counsel under-appreciated teachers. “They do “People get angry about the newcomers to ‘write on subjects they change people’s lives,” said Sheila. lack of jobs and houses, but the know’, and the characters in Sheila’s She’s an urban fox at heart, despite root of the problem is deprivation, novel are composites of people she spending part of the year living in a mismanagement of the economy. It’s knew, in settings she has experienced. tiny hamlet in rural France. the root of everything, but people The central character attends “I have to have London,” she said. blame Europe… or anything else.” Dartford County Grammar School (as “If I had to choose, I’d always live in Turning to ‘Englishness’ and the did Sheila), and the headmistress in the London; it’s so full of surprises. world view of the English, she said that book is the actual head, Miss Fryer. “I walk a lot, and I’m always finding the country was worshipped the world “The book involved a lot of research. something new.” over for its arts. “That’s what England It’s written through the eyes of So what next for Hammersmith’s really is,” she said. someone who is not like me, but I am national treasure? “I haven’t so many In many ways her new book is a an actor and I’m used to portraying years left,” she said. “So I don’t want to campaigning novel, underlining social people who are not like me. As an actor spend a year in theatre, doing the same advances and the march towards gender I’m always looking at people, and I thing. I want to do lots of different equality, while condemning injustice in have a store of characters,” she said. things. I love doing documentaries, and all its forms. The book is a tribute to often I’m hoping to do more of those.” Our Patch february 2015 GREAT OFFERS FROM H&G local PARTNERs W12 and W6 make up our patch, and to celebrate all that’s great about the neighbourhood we’ve teamed up with some of our favourite local businesses to offer great deals for Our Patch readers.

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MARKET FORECAST THE YEAR AHEAD

The dramatic recent change to stamp duty has already energised the local housing market. Sales Manager Martin Clements looks at how the new surcharge affects local buyers and sellers

were earlier in 2014 – although their home (despite the loss of momentum) would still be worth considerably more sales than this time last year. The volume of transactions in west London has certainly been lower and he recent change to stamp arguably one of the main catalysts to duty thresholds will soaring house prices earlier in 2014 was benefit the buyers of lower buyer demand outstripping supply. valued homes… but it also In some recent cases, however, means a higher tax for the homes have seen up to a 5% drop in larger family homes being agreed prices since the end of May, Tpurchased in Hammersmith & Fulham. which we now believe to be the ‘spike It has at least provided some closure point’ of the 2014 sales market. Demand from buyers is on the subject, which many thought wouldn’t happen until later this year. INTO THE ZONE increasing in Zone 2 with Combined with a strong indication The profile of the Hammersmith buyer more and more people about interest rates gradually rising later has changed in recent years with more moving across the in 2015 it will, perhaps, provide buyers and more moving across the border with more confidence in today’s market from Zone 1. border from Zone 1 without the results of May’s general Equally, with the recent central election affecting them. London slowdown, the ripple effect has be into the side return, converting the So what will the house market do this been evident in Zone 2 and with buying loft or even digging into the basement, year? It’s the question that’s on the lips demand decreasing, there is no longer which avoids the frenzy of the ‘sealed of everyone I see in the street, the local the urgency to overpay for properties… bids’ process – and, of course, paying coffee shop or pub. assisting in the softening of recent the Chancellor’s new stamp duty. The market has noticeably slowed house prices. I’d prefer to see a fairer and more since the start of the summer, and with With pounds per square foot values stable market, with more of a level the unbelievable growth over the last achieving £1,000 and beyond in the playing field, so people can confidently 18 months, many would agree that a past year, many homeowners have been feel they are able to move on in 2015. period of stabilisation was inevitable. improving and not moving, finding it However, we remain positive and Some sellers are concerned that easier and more financially worthwhile optimistic about what the year will they’re not achieving the heights others to extend their own home whether it bring for our clients, new and old.

14/15 plus 12% february2015 of remaining value (above £1.5 million) of next £575,000 Our Patch plus 10%

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Lettings Manager Ashley Clements discusses the prospects for the rental sector in the year ahead, with potential landlords invited to get in touch

A continued shortage of homes to Testament to this are the excellent let means that well-priced, and well- results we achieved for our clients in presented properties are going under the new developments of Ashlar Court lettings offer extremely quickly. and St Peter’s Place in Hammersmith. Any agent wishes to work with as We are very excited by the lettings nd how will the lettings many of the best homes as possible, and market ahead. The large amount of sector fare in 2015? A the shortage of property can at times regeneration and new home building consistently busy and seem exaggerated simply due to the taking place will, we expect, only add fast-moving market, in quick turnaround time and properties appeal for tenants new to London and the second half of being snapped up by tenants. the local area. 2014 in particular, points Yields are relatively low on buy-to- The first quarter of each year is a very Ato a very positive outlook for lettings busy time for our lettings department, this year. A continued shortage of and January in particular sees a large The hefty growth in sales values number of new tenant registrations as earlier in 2014 led to a cooling in local homes means that well- we are contacted by those who failed rental values. But the fact that the sales priced, and well-presented to achieve a targeted move of pre- market has stabilised means we can properties are going under Christmas and others who have a goal expect a return to the usual form for of ‘new year, new home’. steadily growing lettings values. offer extremely quickly In fact, we have already had two We expect to see a growing sealed bids during the first two weeks of popularity in ‘let to let’, with local let properties, however with minimal January due to very strong interest for home owners retaining their property void periods and long-term capital homes that had been on the market for and letting it out when planning growth a large proportion of our new only a couple of days before receiving a move to a larger family home instructions are properties bought for multiple offers. while renting another property for the sole purpose of being let. Now is an excellent time to have your themselves. This provides additional With a noticeable number of property valued for let if you are planning stock levels for smaller homes and flats, new-build developments in the area, on coming to the market in 2015, to but increases competition for houses, many landlords see H&F as a great ensure you are ready to reap the rewards especially those close to good local place to secure a long-term investment of this vibrant local lettings market. schools. in a continually improving borough. Please get in touch.

16/17 Our Patch february 2015 THE LOVE POTION

If you and your date are newly acquainted, try another newcomer – L’Amorosa in King Street. Star chef Andy Needham took over the former Lola and Simon restaurant and has transformed it into a serious – and well-priced – rival to the River Café. It translates into ‘The Loving’ in Italian

The Albertine is the perfect place to whisper sweet nothings. Just make sure to cuddle up otherwise your fellow diners might be Clockwise, the tempted to earwig… Albertine, L’Amorosa, The Andover Arms and Needham has certainly put a lot and Indian Zing of heart into his bold new venture, staffing the kitchen with a single assistant and crafting top-notch comfort food that is both charming and impressive. He ran Michelin-star restaurant Zafferano for 12 years as head chef, using only the freshest ingredients with a top-value wine list to match, so show him some love. HOT TIP: Ossobuco alla Milanese (braised veal shin) with saffron risotto & gremolata Special occasions deserve some extra special attention. 278 King Street, W6. Book a table: Geoff Cowart recommends four venues that know a thing 020 8563 0300 And if you and your special or two about setting the right mood for St Valentine… companion are ready to spice up your relationship, there is only one f you are searching for a quiet If you like a bit more hustle or need Indian restaurant in the area that can place to hunker down for an to grab something from Westfield before provide a superior level of food and intimate drink or meal on your night, hit the Albertine in Wood ultra-polite service with an elegant Valentine’s night, look no Lane. It’s a perfectly unreconstructed atmosphere. And that’s Indian Zing, further than the Andover Arms in Parisian wine bar and bistro that has run by the boundary-pushing Manoj Brackenbury Village. Home to one won hearts and minds in its impressive Vasaikar. Every one of his signature Iof the best open fires in London, make 36 years in Shepherds Bush. With a dishes bears his lightness of touch sure to book a table in the back room comprehensive 100+ bottle wine list, a and understanding of flavours, with and let the hidden award-winning blackboard full of exotic cheeses, home- plenty of seasonal and Indian festival Fuller’s pub’s cosy atmosphere and cooking and candles on every table, specialities on show – whether that is friendly staff transport you and it’s the perfect place to whisper sweet celebratory biryanis or exotic game. your date to another world. The food nothings. Just make sure to cuddle up Anyway, where else can you drink is light years ahead of standard pub otherwise your fellow diners might be Indian wine with your curry? fare and the wine list offers great value. tempted to earwig… HOT TIP: Vegetable bhanola, methi HOT TIP: Half shoulder of lamb, seasonal HOT TIP: Any of the bubbly. Order a meal malai tikka, lamb salli rasilla and prawn veg, new potatoes & a glass of Champagne and enjoy a free glass of sparkling rose on lonche – sharing platter for two 57 Aldensley Road, W6. Book a table: Valentine’s night. The Albertine, 1 Wood 236 King Street, W6. Book a table: 020 8748 2155 Lane, W12. Book a table: 020 8743 9593 020 8748 5959 Our Patch february 2015

making good

When the client said she wanted to move her cupboards into the new ensuite that would be both traditional and welcoming, I instantly pictured it

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18/19 Our Patch february 2015 Before & After Interior designer Rowena Vaughan had an unusual request to create an ensuite in a Victorian terraced Hammersmith home

he smallest room is often It drove the carpenter crazy as we had the one with the biggest to measure, measure and check the number of requirements. measuring over and over again. We are No house is complete still speaking, so that’s something at without a comfortable least,” Rowena says with a smile. bathroom, and it is The pair set to work designing an Tsurprisingly important with buyers or entirely new and custom-built set of renters who are looking at your home. wardrobes for the room, which feature So when veteran interior designer some fancy inlay tiles to break up the Rowena Vaughan of RJV Designs was lines and reflect the bathroom approached by a Hammersmith environment. homeowner to turn an unloved storage “The client was not a modernist,” room into a slick new ensuite, she Rowena explains. “She likes antiques jumped at the chance. and wanted something white with a “I have my own family,” Rowena clean finish, while the moulding allows says. “And I know that storage is king! it to look more traditional. So when the client said she wanted to Under foot, it was Rowena’s advice move her cupboards into the new and knowledge of products that led the ensuite while creating a bathroom that client to chose an innovative new would be both traditional and bamboo flooring system. “It’s welcoming, I could instantly picture it. impervious to water because it’s made “It was an unusual request in the out of what is essentially grass, not Victorian block of flats. But for her wood,” Rowena beamed. lifestyle it was the correct thing to do.” “But the architect didn’t believe me. Rowena’s first task was to sort out the So he put the sample in water for a plumbing. Aided by having an external month. Then he believed me...” wall, she turned to designing an interior Based in Fulham, Rowena has been set of shutters that would double as a working on renovation schemes in mirror over the sink. homes in west London for more than “The mirrored glass was custom-built 20 years. And in that time, she’s to provide privacy behind the window, developed one simple rule. “Around which was great as it didn’t require here, always get the interior designer in removing the existing sash window, long before the architect. which would not have been allowed by “After all, the houses are already planning rules and is also great for built. They just need someone who ventilation in the bathroom. knows how they are built to look at “The biggest problem was the lack of them, while we know all of the new right angles in the room! It is always products, what works and doesn’t, and the case in Victorian properties locally. we talk to other professionals.” Our Patch OCTOBER 2014 Martin Clements Michael Gilgallon Georgie Wales Sales Manager Sales Negotiator Sales Negotiator martin@ michael@ georgie@ hortonandgarton.co.uk hortonandgarton.co.uk hortonandgarton.co.uk 020 8819 0510 020 8819 0510 020 8819 0510

Ravenscourt Road, W6 £3,450,000 Freehold

A truly wonderful opportunity to acquire this substantial semi-detached Victorian family house with off street parking located on Ravenscourt Road adjacent to the Park. The home, currently arranged over four floors abounds in original features, has an elegant homely feel and is open to an array of natural sunlight throughout the house. Occupying an excellent position on the Road allowing convenient access to Ravenscourt Park and within close proximity to an abundance of local schools and transport links.

• Semi detached house • 3096 Sq’ – 287 Sq m • Five bedrooms - four bathrooms • Four floors • Conservatory • Private secluded garden

Contact Horton and Garton for more information on 020 8819 0510

20 / B Our Patch OCTOBER 2014 176 King Street Hammersmith W6 0RA www.hortonandgarton.co.uk 020 8819 0510

Airedale Avenue, W4 £1,950,000 Hadyn Park Road, W12 £1,350,000 Freehold Freehold

• Semi-detached Edwardian family home • 2467 Sq’ - 229 Sq m • Victorian family house • 1,885 Sq’ - 175 Sq m • Scope for improvement • 60’ private Garden • Four bedrooms - two bathrooms • Large kitchen/dining room • EPC rating = F • Chiswick High Road location • EPC Rating = E • Shepherds Bush location

Rylett Road, W12 £2,250,000 Hammersmith Grove, W6 £675,000 Freehold Leasehold

• Semi-detached family house • 2319 Sq’ - 215.44 Sq m • Two double bedroom flat • West facing roof terrace • Scope for improvement • 70’ garden • Stylish and modern bathroom • Reception Room • EPC rating = F • Ravenscourt Park location • EPC Rating = C • Brackenbury Village location Our Patch OCTOBER 2014 Ashley Clements Milly Oddie Alice Gray Lettings Manager Lettings Negotiator Lettings Negotiator ashley@ milly@ alice@ hortonandgarton.co.uk hortonandgarton.co.uk hortonandgarton.co.uk 020 8819 0511 020 8819 0511 020 8819 0511

Chiswick Mall, W4 £575 per week Spectacular river views | Three bedrooms | Private river facing garden Two bathrooms | EPC rating = E | Chiswick Mall location

Nasmyth Street, W6 £365 per week Aldensley Road, W6 £350 per week • One bedroom house • Additional guest room/study • Victorian conversion flat • 20’ South facing garden • Off street parking • Private courtyard garden • Stylish fitted kitchen • Conservatory room • EPC rating = E • Brackenbury Village location • EPC rating = D • Brackenbury Village location

Macfarlane Road, W12 £650 per week Hamlet Gardens, W6 £550 per week • Four double bedrooms • Extended Period House • Duplex mansion block apartment • 1372 Sq’ - 127 Sq m • Double reception room • West facing garden • 28’3 reception room • Two bedrooms - two bathrooms • EPC Rating = D • Shepherds Bush Green location • EPC Rating = E • Ravenscourt Park location

22 / B Here are Horton and Garton, we are delighted that we’ve scooped an award NEWS UPDATE for Our Patch magazine. We offer a H&F BRILLIANT BUSINESS AWARDS big thanks to everyone who voted…

e’ve won! Thanks to your votes, Horton and Garton has not only won the award for the best independent local Wbusiness but also the 2014 marketing prize for Our Patch, the magazine you’re currently holding in your hands. From its low-key launch, with 10,000 distribution, it has increased to a 22,000 print run, with the judges of the Brilliant Business Awards also noting the link-ups with other independent businesses in Hammersmith & Fulham Proud Horton and Garton staff in reaching their decision to give celebrate their multiple awards Horton and Garton the award. at the Brilliant Business Awards After also collecting the runners-up prize for best innovation in a business in 2014 (again for the Our Patch), we we’ve been getting, business partners in three key categories. Businesses of all are now running out of shelf space for are now coming to us to create more styles, types, shapes and sizes battled trophies at our King Street office. offers which help shoppers who support it out in the shortlist for 14 awards, Our Patch was a concept which the area’s independent traders. as nominated by residents, shoppers had not been tried before; it’s not a The features which seem most and workers, with this year’s winners sales magazine, and it’s not full of popular in Our Patch include history being revealed in a ceremony in the – from the flyover to the river, topical town hall. We support other subjects such as the development at the The People’s Choice award for the Lyric theatre, and the Talking Heads business with the most public votes locally based independent feature, in which head teachers talk went to Azou, a family-run North businesses, and we all link about their schools. African restaurant in King Street, to each other on our websites So what do the awards actually Hammersmith, which also took the title mean? Well, it’s recognition of our of Best Food Business. efforts to build the brand and keep our Another Hammersmith trio were adverts. It supports other locally based approach to house sales and letting honoured: Firefly won the innovation independent businesses, and we all link fresh, honest and professional. prize, L’Amorosa won best new business to each other on our websites, with that Last year, Horton and Garton won and The Andover Arms was best crossover and support always useful. the award for best customer service, so customer service prizewinner, as well As a result of the good feedback it’s very special to do so well this year as being runner-up for best food.

Play golf at St Andrew’s – in W6! esidents of the new Fulham and Pine Springs, and improve Reach apartment complex on their swing, with the help of a Rthe riverside can play the old PGA pro. The golf simulator, in course at St Andrew’s – without the leisure complex known as The leaving Hammersmith. Club, is next door to the snooker A virtual golfing range has room, and just across the corridor opened, giving flat dwellers the from the complex’s wine cellar. chance to play more than 100 When it’s finished, Fulham different courses around the world Reach will have nearly 1,500 such as Pebble Beach, the Belfry apartments.

Ready to buy, sell or let? Visit Horton and Garton at 176 King Street, Hammersmith W6 0RA today! @hortonandgarton www.facebook.com/hortonandgarton www.hortonandgarton.co.uk

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