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Lifechanger of the week open a riding school — or a B&B handy for the airport ALAMY Can you dig it? The grow-your-own veg trend has taken root in London gardens and on allotments, balconies and windowsills Trophy home of the week the ideal lock-up-and-leave pad for jet-setters A veg garden £8.95 million: it’s new and it’s in Hampstead — but the real appeal of this five- bedroom house to the mega-rich will be that it’s a perfect “lock up and leaver”. Having bought it they can jet off round the world, safe in the knowledge that there’s a London base waiting for them whenever they return. can add And what a base it is. There are five floors, starting in the basement with a swimming pool, spa, gym and cinema, then it’s up to a chic kitchen/breakfast room, dining room, games room and a huge reception room, with the master bedroom, dressing room and en suite on the next level. Two terraces allow you £90k value to soak up the views, with Hampstead Village, Hampstead Heath and Golders Hill Park all close by. Through Savills (020 8012 3124). ONDON is turning and consequent shortage of into a city of urban lettuce, courgettes and other £1,375,000: deliciously rural yet farmers. Almost veg in British supermarkets only 10 minutes from Gatwick one in four people earlier this year led to a run airport is this substantial 14th- London buy of the week join the with a garden on seed buying. Gardening century country home near the eco-flat revolution in leafy Wimbledon devotesL some outside space website Crocus reported lovely village of Rusper, on the to growing their own food, sales of lettuce seeds up 270 West Sussex/Surrey border. according to a new study. per cent year on year. A glorious plot of about 11 acres £480,000: just south These numbers do not Celebrities from Jamie means you have plenty of space of Wimbledon Village, include the countless other Oliver to David Cameron to to horse around in, incorporating this one-bedroom growers in the capital who Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate a three-acre wraparound garden, ground-floor show flat are turning their balconies Moss have their own vegeta- outbuildings including stables in a launches on Saturday and windowsills over to ble plots, while new develop- gated courtyard and two four- at energy-efficient growing veg — and as estate ments from Battersea Power acre paddocks — perfect for Middleton Court. agents know, gardens are Station in the south to new- equestrian income potential. There’s a full-width not just good for produce, homes estates in the East End Inside has some 4,877sq ft of terrace out to but also for adding value. feature residents’ rooftop space and would equally lend communal gardens TV chefs, the warmer Lon- plots and allotments. itself to a B&B, making use of the from a generous living/ don climate, the growing When it comes to buying two huge reception rooms, both kitchen/dining space popularity of organic food property, 72 per cent of with oak floors and fireplaces, a with a host of high- and the trend to relax and clients surveyed by Foxtons separate dining room, five spec details, including ceiling windows, and are on the doorstep enjoy the de-stressing satis- would pay more for a home bedrooms and a versatile annexe underfloor heating and there’s a video entry- and Help to Buy is faction of producing your with a garden. A straw poll that you could either let or live in, sleek appliances. phone system for available. own veg are encouraging of agents suggests outdoor away from your paying guests. The bedroom has added peace of mind. Through Hamptons this growing spree. Last win- space could add up £90,000 Through property agents James By Faye plush carpet, fitted The open spaces of International (020 ter’s torrential rain in Spain to a London home’s value. Dean (01293 263059). Greenslade wardrobe and floor-to- Wimbledon Common 3451 1544). O Find Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk

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Your private dock comes with a listed A perfect Chelsea home The Timberlakes mansion for Taylor. It’s £30m go paparazzi-proof

É YOU can park your boat at the drive from London. Clad in wisteria É LOOK! Taylor Swift! This could be É MUSIC megastar Justin Timberlake bottom of the garden at Wharf House and clematis and with a flagstone your new Chelsea home. The singer, and his Hollywood actress wife in Emsworth, Hampshire. With a terrace, it sits in landscaped gardens 27, right, has her sights set on west Jessica Biel have reportedly bought a private dock and access to the by renowned designer John Brookes. London so she can be close to her coveted New York penthouse in a Emsworth Channel leading to pretty A pergola leads along the back of the British actor boyfriend Joe Alwyn. But block favoured by celebrities for its Chichester Harbour in West Sussex, garaging to an area ideal for an despite several discreet viewings, she “paparazzi-proof” credentials. this Grade II-listed six-bedroom outdoor swimming pool. But first has yet to put in an offer. The A-list couple, below, are home brings to mind the type of you need to splash out £3.4 million — She needs plenty of space for her thought to have forked out almost Long Island location loved by US film not so very eye-watering if you are squad, plus a pool and an extravagant £15.6 million for the Tribeca home, stars — but it’s less than two hours’ used to London property prices. interior design, so this 8,000sq ft above, one of eight penthouses in the four-bedroom Chelsea townhouse, block. The 5,000sq ft apartment, in above and above right, with interiors the glittering 443 Greenwich Street by Rabih Hage, could be a hit with the development, comes with four Shake it Off singer. bedrooms, four bathrooms and an In Tregunter Road, it’s on the entertainment room that’s encircled market after a three-year overhaul. by a huge private terrace. One of the most impressive features Star neighbours are said to include is the atmospheric pool room with a Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds and spa, chill-out area and cocktail bar. his US TV actress wife Blake Lively, There is also a glass-enclosed along with triple F1 world champion display wine cellar, a state-of-the-art O For more driver Lewis Hamilton and British By Amira Hashish gym, walk-in wardrobe and staff celebrity gossip, chart-topper Harry Styles, who kitchenette and bathroom. The design visit homes reportedly bought recently in the is similar to Swift’s blingy Beverly Hills andproperty. block. Amenities include an interior base and the price is £30 million. co.uk/gossip courtyard garden for privacy, and a Got some gossip? Tweet @amiranews GETTY gym for keeping in superstar shape. Fancy Fitzrovia or Cornwall, Chloë? É
FILM-MAKER Monty Whitebloom is selling both his home in Fitzrovia and his retreat in Cornwall. Whitebloom, who will release Look Away starring Chloë Sevigny, right, and Aiden “Poldark” Turner this year, has listed his 18th-century mews, far right, just off the media hotspot of Charlotte Street at £2,425,000 with Hudsons. There’s 1,600 sq ft of living space over five floors, including four bedrooms and a south-facing roof terrace. The Old Rectory, the director’s Grade II-listed Cornish

home, is for sale at £1.5 million. GETTY GETTY 6 WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Architecture homesandproperty.co.uk powered by RIBA AWARDS 2017 Wow-factor ideas to inspire you A feast of fabulous ideas for all budgets won RIBA awards this year for London architects. Lee Mallett spots the trends

HE Royal Institute of British super-wow factor. The award-winning Architects’ Annual Awards homes, often built on awkward plots, this year recognise a fantas- are relentlessly exuberant in their ambi- tic crop of architectural tion and beautifully delivered in design. ideas, providing inspiration The big housebuilders can learn from forT Londoners wanting to build their them — and even the familiar “bricky” own home, reconfigure an exisiting style of so many new housing schemes property or create an extension with has been given a fresh, exciting twist. TREND: FANTASTIC INDIVIDUALISM MARK HADDON MAGDALENA PIETRAYK MAGDALENA Near waterside walkways: Brentford Bold colours, creative design: above, Lock West on the Grand Union Canal the workspace up among the treetops QUALITY ON A BUDGET BRIGHT ‘BIRDCAGE’ IS A WORKSPACE BRENTFORD LOCK WEST BRENTFORD 6 WOOD LANE HIGHGATE Part of a wider local regeneration plan, The fantastic individualism of this pri- Brentford Lock West is the project of vate house by Birds Portchmouth Rus- Isis Waterside Regeneration and Muse sum Architects (birdsportchmouth Developments in a former industrial russum.com) at 6 Wood Lane in High- area next to the Grand Union Canal. Not gate, with its bright blue moulded desk traditional housebuilders, Isis Water- and yellow floor for a birdcage of a side and Muse turn their hands to many workspace in the top half, makes for a types of development, seeking adven- rich gem of a property. It took seven turous architectural solutions. years and about £600,000 to complete The scheme is a sensitive example of as a self-build project. Tightly planned “New London Vernacular”. Others try functional spaces are contrasted with less successfully to match the quality generous living areas — a small that architect Mikhail Riches has man- entrance, tiny bathrooms and boat-like aged to achieve with Cathy Hawley, in staircases unfold into the vertical living brick and on a fairly low budget, spaces with views between parts of the through careful use of proportion, house and over the garden. asymmetric rhythm of openings and imaginative detailing. There is a lot of A rich gem of a house: 6 Wood Lane,

this approach about in regeneration. right, is a £600,000 self-build project MIKE RUSSUM Looking for an amazing new-build home? EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE 2017 7 Architecture | Homes & Property RIBA AWARDS 2017 ALEX PEACOCK Above and right: the Sun Rain Room is an extension built for work and play THE PLEASUREDOME SUN RAIN ROOM ISLINGTON Quirky to a tee is Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu’s (tonkinliu.co.uk) Sun Rain Room, a two-storey rear extension to their own Georgian family townhouse in Islington. The lower storey provides studio space for their practice, Tonkin Liu, while sitting splendidly above is a pleasuredome of a poolside entertain- ment space with a swooping green roof. Captured rainwater fills the black granite pool which contrasts with the

white of the poolside. ALEX PEACOCK

FROM ZAHA TO TAHA BARRETTS GROVE STOKE NEWINGTON Amin Taha Architects’ (amintaha.co. uk) £1.3 million block, right, is made of the “fairy tale materials” of brick, wood and straw — but it would take a very big bad wolf to blow this house down. Like his former boss, the late Dame Zaha Hadid, Taha makes distinctive, maverick architecture. Inside the stag- gered brickwork skin is a series of small, timber-lined flats for developer Cobstar. Each has a “wicker basket” balcony. If you want character, this is it. Barretts Grove proves that brick

need never be boring. TIM SOAR

LOFT LIVING TODAY THE COOPERAGE CLERKENWELL This former brewery cooperage exem- plifies urban living on the grand scale. It’s one of many industrial buildings converted to residential use in the “loft living” craze of the Eighties and Nine- ties, now revisited for refurbishment. Chris Dyson Architects (chrisdyson. co.uk) has removed the “unsympa- thetic” earlier scheme to reveal the full potential of the Clerkenwell Cooper- age’s internal spaces and the robust industrial materials of the building. Its interior has been cut to create the triple-height living space, linked by a sculptural black metal staircase. Con- crete, black steel, exposed brick, warm lighting, vegetation and abundant natu- ral light update the still-desirable notion of living in former industrial spaces.

Urban ideal: right, the Cooperage is a stunning industrial-style living space

Continued on Page 8 ± PETER LANDERS Start your search on 8 WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Architecture RIBA AWARDS 2017 TIM SOAR Continued from Page 7 TREND: CREATIVELY SMALL

ELEGANT SIMPLICITY HIDDEN HOUSE CLERKENWELL Small, spartan and beautifully formed is Hidden House in Clerkenwell, above and right, designed by Coffey Architects (coffeyarchitects.com). It sits on a small plot, previously the site of a caretaker’s shed, a one-storey house above the former prison vault of what was the Clerkenwell House of Detention. It is simple, elegant and immaculately detailed. With openings only on its north-east and north-west sides, it is surprisingly light and open inside, thanks to precisely placed roof vaults giving views up to the more decorative Victorian school next door. Keeping it simple and making the most of every bit of land, while taking care to use high-quality materials and careful design, seem the most useful lessons developers and housebuilders might

take from this year’s crop of awards. TIM SOAR

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Industrial heritage: Walmer Yard,

above, right, and below right, in W11 STERNBERG MORLEY VON Stupendous city views: flats for rent at reinvented Vantage Point in Archway FUTURE PERFECT WALMER YARD HOLLAND PARK TREND: OFFICES INTO HOMES Smaller private developers’ efforts rec- ognised by RIBA include those of Crispin SMART NEW RENTALS converted to homes. Indeed, many Kelly. Trained as an architect, Kelly already have been. (baylight.co.uk) has for 30 years devel- VANTAGE POINT However, planners are now starting oped influential, quirky commercial ARCHWAY to become worried about loss of work- and residential schemes both large and The new “warehouse conversion” is space, despite the ongoing lack of hous- small, each showing a commitment to the transformation of outdated office ing, so perhaps this new source of architectural experimentation. buildings to apartments, as at Vantage homes will soon dry up. Walmer Yard is four interlocking Point in Archway, by developer Essen- houses on a former industrial site in tial Living and designed by GRID Archi- salubrious Holland Park. It is designed tects (gridarchitects.co.uk). by three architects — Peter Salter and After refurbishment and recladding, Associates, Mole Architects and John the notorious 18-storey Seventies block Comparelli Architects. Salter, who led on Archway Corner in Holloway has the team, is an architectural designer been reinvented as apartments to and teacher and the experimental rent. scheme has been no less than seven One major benefit of the scheme has years in the making — which speaks been the improvement of the urban volumes for the creative commitment experience at the tower’s foot, where involved. a generous pedestrianised space has Its exposed concrete interiors and been created while major roads have eclectic mix of materials and bold col- also been diverted, making a huge dif- ours are highly unlikely to be copied ference to the area. by housebuilders, but maybe it is pos- What many regarded as a failed sible to detect in its determined indi- building is now working much better. viduality some future trends. For Views from the apartments are stu- example, the need for closer commu- pendous. Whether you like the new nal living in the inner city, more shared bronze metal cladding is a matter for communal spaces, and the need to taste. It is a much brighter building express individuality despite proximity than it was, and it now makes a much- — something which Tokyo seems to do needed contribution to a better urban better than London. experience.

And there is a robustness in the There are many such blocks in the STERNBERG MORLEY VON scheme’s materials which looks long- London suburbs — and in central Lon- Brighter and better: tired Seventies lasting and characterful. This is not an don, for that matter — that could be offices, reclad and totally refurbished anonymous replicant derived from other developments. O The RIBA London Awards 2017 can be viewed at homesandproperty.co.uk/RIBA17 10 WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Homes abroad The London family who built a Greek island home

NLESS you are a sailor you’ve probably never The children can go native all heard of Meganissi. It is one summer long at this villa on a tiny of the Ionian Islands in western Greece but at less Ionian island, says Cathy Hawker thanU nine square miles it is overshad- owed by its much larger sister islands — Corfu and Lefkas. Getting to Meganissi from London involves an easyJet flight from Gatwick to Preveza airport on the mainland, a Greek getaway: peaceful, unspoilt Meganissi has a supermarket, several tavernas and one nightclub 20-minute drive over a sea-crossing bridge to Lefkas and then 20 minutes by sea taxi. Travellers pass the private island of Skorpios, once owned by Aris- totle Onassis, before arriving on green Meganissi with its coves, beaches and whitewashed villages. It’s a journey that Oscar Tymon knows well. In 2005 he and his wife Sue, both former City workers, bought a 10-acre plot on Meganissi and two years later started building a home there. “Door to door it takes eight hours from our house in Bromley,” says Oscar. “Or five hours from when the plane leaves London.” SAIL TO SECRET COVES By early 2009 the project was complete. Oscar, Sue and their four children, Abby, Alexis, Eve and Charlie, now aged 16 to 27, have loved their Greek holiday home ever since. Top: Oscar and Sue Tymon of Bromley, with children Abby, “Meganissi is wonderful for boating Alexis, Eve and Charlie, holiday for up to seven weeks a with safe waters and good wind,” says year in the villa the couple built on Meganissi, above Oscar. “The sailing community know it as a place with untouched coves and bays. We have a boat and love to explore From £1,779 to Ithaca, Kefalonia or Lefkas where even £4,093 a week: in summer there’s always somewhere luxurious Kala to moor for a waterfront lunch.” Filia villa on Peaceful and private, Meganissi is Meganissi sleeps unspoilt with a year-round population four to six, with of 1,500. There’s a supermarket, a few an infinity pool boutiques, butchers and patisseries, and sea views several tavernas and hotels and one (thethinking nightclub. “It is like the land that time traveller.com) forgot,” laughs Sue, an award-winning garden designer. “All the necessary

£3,966-£10,163 a week: Oscar and Sue Tymon’s villa, Akrothea, sleeps 10

infrastructure is there, it just doesn’t always look like it is. And you cannot Mining gems in the Med: Huw and Rossella Beaugié run overestimate the friendliness of the London-based villa rental firm The Thinking Traveller locals.” Their house, Akrothea, has five double bedrooms and a large infinity ‘Our Holy Grail holiday rentals’ pool overlooking the Med. The family visit for six or seven weeks a year and SINCE 2013 British couple Oscar and Sue Tymon (see otherwise rent it through The Thinking main story) have rented out their villa on Meganissi Traveller for £3,966 to £10,163 a week. through The Thinking Traveller, a London-based An acre building plot on Meganissi company with 200 exclusive properties on its books, would cost £128,000 to £170,000, and founded and run by Huw and Rossella Beaugié. on Corfu it would be £215,000 to Half the company’s properties are in Sicily and a £256,000. New-build three-bedroom further 45 are elsewhere in Italy, but they also cover the villas on Meganissi start at £280,000 Ionian Islands, with seven villas on Meganissi. Their best through Rokka Villas. On Corfu, Sphere villas rent for an impressive 30 weeks-plus each year Estates has a four-bedroom detached with an average weekly rent of £6,000. east coast villa with pool for £467,000. Says Huw: “The Holy Grail for villa renters is a pool, a sandy beach and an easy walk to local restaurants. O The Thinking Traveller: Combine that with peace, views and top-quality thethinkingtraveller.com furnishings, and you have the perfect villa.” O Sphere Estates: (sphereestates.com) O Rokka Villas (rokkaconstructions. O Visit thethinkingtraveller.com com) 12 WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | London life Where to find true community spirit in London Cities can be lonely places. Ruth Bloomfield discovers parts of the capital where residents are creating warm and friendly communities

ITH a determined avoidance of eye con- tact on its streets and a tendency to hide behind newspapers Wand smartphones on the Tube, Lon- don’s reputation for warmth is not great. Once Londoners get home from work, however, the story can change. There are pockets of the capital where communities thrive, with offers to help the elderly with their gardens, and volunteering at a local food bank or on a neighbourhood newspaper. Here is our pick of the areas that are known £569,950: a two-bedroom terrace for community spirit. house in Eleanor Road, N11, close to Bowes Park. Hobarts (020 8012 3511) BOWES PARK N22 & N13 PECKHAM SE15 What’s going on? Myddleton Road Thinking of What’s going on? Peckham is chang- is named after 17th-century engineer ing. You only have to wander down Sir Hugh Myddelton who brought moving? Rye Lane, the scent of artisanal fresh drinking water into London on Start your coffee in the air, to know that. But the the New River: a very community– rebirth of this outpost of south-east minded man, and today’s residents search on London as hipster HQ appears to follow his lead. have happened organically rather Myddleton Road was dying on its than to a masterplan drawn up by feet until 2013, when a group of locals town planners. in this north London neighbourhood When a couple of local residents set up a street market to breathe life launched a campaign to reopen the into their high street. long-defunct Peckham Lido, more Street festivals with live music than 1,000 people raised £60,000 followed, while other volunteers run than in adjacent Alexandra Palace or through a crowdfunding scheme. a community garden on a strip of Crouch End. The Peckham Coal Line, a linear park wasteground, with regular weekend Transport: Bounds Green Tube is on running on disused coal sidings gardening sessions. Residents have the Piccadilly line. Trains from Bowes between Rye Lane and Queens Road set up drawing clubs, walking Park reach Moorgate in 24 minutes. Peckham, was also put forward by a groups, and a community choir. And the downsides? Proximity to group of residents, and Friends of Debbie Oliver of Hobarts estate the North Circular Road turns local the Peckham Coal Line is now a agents says: “There is a really tight streets into rat-runs and pubs registered charity consulting locals community atmosphere there.” provide the only nightlife. about how the overhead park should Any other special reason to live House prices: a two-bedroom house be designed. there? Bounds Green Junior School costs about £550,000, with three- People living near Bellenden Road is rated “good” by Ofsted and St bedroom homes for about £725,000. are organising a summer street party Thomas More Catholic School, for Debbie Oliver says larger houses are next month, and Denman Road senior pupils, is “outstanding”. You’ll rare but often need renovation when regularly closes to traffic so kids can also get more home for your money they do come up. play outside. There are community groups, including Peckham Vision, set up to make sure locals have a say in the regeneration of their area — the group is currently fighting plans to redevelop the beloved Peckhamplex cinema; Friends of Peckham Rye Park run a traditional summer fête with a dog show, and the Peckham Peculiar is a free local newspaper. Any other special reason to live there? For the brilliant range of independent cafés, bars and restaurants, plus a something-for-

£650,000: a three-bedroom Victorian Catalyst for change: Myddleton Road Market, started by locals, breathed life house — a doer-upper — in Astbury Rd, into Bowes Park’s shopping scene and scooped a Great British Markets Award Peckham. Call Acorn (020 8012 2626) EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE 2017 13 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by London life | Homes & Property

SOUTH TOTTENHAM N17 What’s going on? When Ellie Rees and her young family moved from Islington to South Tottenham three years ago it was not without some trepidation. The area had been a frontline of the 2011 summer riots, and its reputation for crime and poverty was well known. But the move meant she and her husband Rex, 40, and their two girls Blythe, four, and Ottoline, 11 months, could swap a two-bedroom flat for a three- bedroom Victorian house with a garden. Ellie, 41, and Rex run their own business, Brickworks estate agency, through which they meet a lot of local people and they love this family- friendly, community-driven area. Ellie uses the Tottenham Parents Facebook Family space: Ellie and Rex Rees swapped an N1 flat for a house with a garden Group pretty much daily, for everything from finding child care to weekly pop-up restaurant where help, and a multibillion-pound recommendations for good local different street food traders take regeneration is now being planned. plumbers. over the kitchen. “The local community is very She has also discovered The Hub, on New restaurants are starting to politically engaged and involved in Lordship Rec, a community centre open up, including Loven “pizzeria/ the plans,” says Ellie. “A number of run by local residents which has a bar/artspace”, while the area got its local groups hold meets for and children’s playground, a café, a BMX own craft brewer, Beavertown against various development and track and a yoga studio. Brewery, in 2014. A farmers’ market residential projects.” Meanwhile, creative start-ups are — that other hallmark of an up-and- Any other special reason to live

REX thriving at Gaunson House, part of coming area — is held regularly on there? The area will get a huge boost The Mill Co Project, which offers Tottenham Green. if plans for Crossrail 2 links come off A Dog’s Purpose must be on: Rooftop everyone vibe, with posh Bellenden studios and spaces for arts and After the riots, politicians began to at Seven Sisters and Tottenham Hale, Cinema Club at Peckham’s Bussey Road, still-gritty Rye Lane, the designers. There is also a café, and a realise that South Tottenham needed both within walking distance. Plans to Building arts and entertainment venue brilliant Bussey Building for arts and turn 10 Victorian reservoirs just east gigs, and lovely Peckham Rye Park. of South Tottenham into a huge Transport: trains from Peckham Rye wetland park will give the area some take 20 minutes or less to Victoria, badly needed open space. Local London Bridge, or Blackfriars. schools include Crowland Primary, Services from Queens Road Peckham rated “outstanding” by Ofsted, while to London Bridge take from 11 St Ignatius RC Primary is “good”. minutes, and reach Blackfriars and Transport: South Tottenham station, Victoria in less than 25 minutes. in Zone 3, is on the Overground and is And the downsides? It’s expensive walking distance from Seven Sisters to buy in Peckham and as developers Tube, on the Victoria line. move in, they threaten to eradicate And the downsides? This is an area some of its unique character. where real poverty and deprivation House prices: the cheapest way to still exist, and regeneration isn’t buy into Peckham is with an ex-local going to happen overnight. Streets authority flat — a two-bedroom home and parks are littered and unloved would cost £250,000 to £300,000. despite the efforts of residents’ A one-bedroom purpose-built or clean-up groups. period conversion flat would be £369,640: a two-bedroom flat, House prices: a two-bedroom £330,000 to £350,000. A three- above, in Summerhill Road, South purpose-built flat will cost about bedroom period terrace house costs Tottenham, through emoov (03339 £350,000 to £400,000, while an from about £650,000, but you will 394293). Left: Colombian dancing average three-bedroom Victorian REX need to pay £1 million-plus for one of at Tottenham Green Multicultural terrace house sells for about

So cool: Peckham multi-storey car park, the large, lovely Victorian piles in the ALAMY Festival £600,000 to £650,000. reborn with Frank’s Café on the roof streets off Bellenden Road. 14 WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Interiors shopping

Take a grand tour Enjoy a stroll through this thriving design district. It’s a bit pricey but advice is free, says Barbara Chandler

Off the wall: Will Fisher’s Jamb at 95-97 Pimlico Road has NCE something of a shabby quirky furniture, lanterns, mirrors… and stuffed penguins backwater, these days Pimlico Road, SW1 is undeniably posh. It’s a short street full of inde- pendentO shops with fronts in fashion- ably muted shades and bearing the names of an intriguing variety of inte- rior designers, makers and antiques dealers. Some stores you can only enter after pressing the bell. It can be intim- idating — but stick with it. In shady Orange Square, aka Mozart Square, the Saturday morning farmers’ market has colourful stalls of fruit, fresh pasta, free-range eggs, meat, fish, artisan breads and cheeses. It closes at 1pm and on Saturdays many of the shops are closed, too. Just a few stay open to show off the authentic British or whisky tumblers. At Soane Britain, Clockwise from is at 10-14 Holbein Place, for reliably craft techniques used when making newly “refreshed” by founder/owner above: bespoke chic designs. reproductions of popular originals. Lulu Lytle, find inspiring arrangements and antique Furniture-maker Russell Pinch is a Meet Chistopher Howe at No 93 of furniture and fabrics (50-52 Pimlico mirror suppliers newbie, at 46 Bourne Street (pinchde- (howelondon.com), whose hand-carved Road; soane.co.uk). Ossowski at 83 sign.com). The store is lined with per- Irish Pawfoot Bench, his first foray from An august line-up of interior decora- Pimlico Road; fect scale models of his work, with its art into antiques/furniture 30 years ago, tors includes long-established Jane Christopher “pared-back” aesthetic. Also new is is an enduring success — the benches Churchill. More recently arrived is Howe and his Cox London, where sculptors Nicola are in the National Gallery. Robert Kime, the “royal decorator”. Irish Pawfoot and Christopher Cox have channelled Other copies of classic chairs evoke At 89-91 Pimlico Road is Sibyl Colefax Bench; floral their artistry into furniture and light- Chippendale, Strawberry Hill Gothic, and John Fowler, arbiter of “country screen prints at ing, hand cast in their own foundry (194 Arts & Crafts and Victorian/Edwardian house” style, where exquisite antique Bennison in Ebury Street; coxlondon.com). upholstery. New downstairs is a kitchen and modern cameos are set against rich Holbein Place; by Plain English in Suffolk, handmade wall finishes and handsome curtains. furniture maker WHAT THE ROMANS DID FOR US in mellow, chunky rescued pitch pine, Rather than “shops”, these are show- Russell Pinch’s Luke Irwin sells handmade rugs fairly with antique knobs and pulls. Laden cases or studios for the designers Bourne Street made in Nepal, based on Roman mosa- with Royal Staffordshire ceramics is within. However, interior designer shop, and Rose ics (see the Mosaic collection at 20-22 “possibly the longest dresser ever”. Paolo Moschino (trading as nicholas Uniacke’s Pimlico Road; lukeirwin.com). haslam.com at 202 Ebury Street) has Serpentine sofa Bennison (16 Holbein Place; benni- ON THE WILD SIDE open doors at his corner shop with very (£9,000 inc VAT) son.com) screen prints about 500 Next door, behind a lifesize 18th-century special lamps and classic silk lamp designs from £175 a metre, from the horse, is Jamb (95-97 Pimlico Road; shades, plus stylish furniture, gifts archive of founder Geoffrey Bennison jamb.co.uk), a wide and surprisingly galore and a nifty line in Belgian hand- (1921–1984). Christopher Howe’s other deep antiques shop that owner Will made shoes. His separate fabric shop little shop does authentic mini-prints Fisher has filled with quirky furniture, on cotton or linen, with matching lanterns, mirrors, urns, busts and even Design partners: papers (36bournestreet.com), while de a couple of stuffed penguins. He can Russell Pinch and Le Cuona at 24 Pimlico Road excels in also copy his cache of antique fireplaces Oona Bannon at weaves in well-coloured natural fibres in ancient marbles, hand-finished to Pinch; below, a (delecuona.com). look as old as you like. Or go for a more Pinch dining Brass door furniture is downstairs at sober stone from quarries the Romans chair (£1,080- Anthony Outred, 74 Pimlico Road. used, such as Bath or Portland. £1,145) Dale Rogers at 77-79 Pimlico Road Plate-glass double doors and a hand- does fossils and crystals. some sweep of windows mark Linley Hilary Batstone (8 Holbein Place) where David Linley, Earl of Snowdon, has a soft-edged edit of antique furni- shows off furniture in fine veneers, with ture. Nearby, her daughter Rose a fitted kitchen in the basement (60 Uniacke has a burgeoning collection Pimlico Road; davidlinley.com). The of her own interiors editions. Her sig- London Skyline marquetry panel is a nature slender bronze bamboo shoots must-see, with 20,000 individual appear on bar stools, coat hangers, and pieces, priced £75,000. For less than even balusters to the basement (76 £100, buy photo frames, door wedges, Pimlico Road; roseuniacke.com). 16 WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Events

DESIGN DIRECT AT CENTRAL June 27-30; Craft Central, 33-35 St John’s Square, EC1 (designnation.co.uk) DESIGN-NATION and Design Factory, members-only “networks” that support designers, promote their work and share expertise and exhibitions, are coming together for a summer pop-up in the heart of Clerkenwell, with original ceramics, glass, textiles, fashion accessories, gifts and more. Chat to the makers — and maybe discuss a commission. We love this vase, left, by Linda Bloomfield (stoneware from £8), and silk scarf by KathKath Studio (sale scarves from £50). See also Ekta Kaul’s embroidery/appliqué, Melanie Porter’s chunky knitted furnishings and Snowden Flood’s prints and glass.

THE ART & ANTIQUES FAIR glass, textiles, lighting, sculpture, paintings, June 26 to July 2, Olympia London, Hammersmith prints and more from antiquity to the present Road, W14 (olympia-art-antiques.com). Tickets: day, all vetted for authenticity by experts. Items £60 for preview day, £15 for standard advance can’t possibly come much older than this 80 admission, £20 on the door. million-year-old Mosasaur skull from Peter MORE than 25,000 people are set to visit 120 Pittmann Fossillien, above. Prices start at about dealers for the 45th edition of this famous fair. £100, rising into the thousands. A talks schedule Interior designers find treasures for clients from highlights home decor, with speakers including a stash of 50,000 items. You can do the same for Emma Burns and Christopher Vane Percy from your home, tapping into furniture, ceramics, Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler. Five things to see in June By Barbara Chandler E17 ART TRAIL Until June 18, Walthamstow (e17arttrail. co.uk) ON A theme of full STEAM ahead, as in school subjects Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths, 7,000 exhibitors/performers on the Art Trail include poets, painters, sculptors, choirs, designers and dancers, with shows and workshops in studios, pubs, parks and cafés. Put on a Matronix helmet, below, by Face Invader artist Rebecca Ward for an audiovisual trip (Winns Gallery, E17; face-invader.co.uk).

PULLENS YARDS SUMMER OPEN STUDIOS This weekend — Friday from 6.30pm-9.30pm, Saturday and Sunday from 11am-6pm — at Iliffe, Clements and Peacock Yards in SE17. THESE adjacent cobbled streets, above, have housed craftspeople for 120 years. Meet a large, friendly, modern tribe from up to 50 studios, including artists, potters, illustrators and jewellers, plus the makers of prints, furniture, rugs, bags, dolls, scarves, lutes and guitars. Also enjoy pottery, drawing and flower-arranging workshops for children and adults; artisanal food and drink stalls, and local walks by @guidedbyisobel.

SALVO 2017 June 24-25, 10am-5pm, Icehouse Lane, Henley-on-Thames (salvofair.com). Admission £10, or £9 in advance. “Trade day” is June 23, admission £20, £18 in advance. Charity gala preview/late-night shopping is on June 23, 5pm-8pm, £25. THORNTON KAYE founded the Salvo dealers network in 1991 and the selling fair is still family-run. Reclaimed building materials are big business today, as are industrial antiques and vintage pieces such as this Forties Peugeot coffee grinder, right, from Sugden and Daughters. This year’s event is billed as a Green Living Fest. Up to 80 top British and European dealers will be on the 10-acre deer park of Sir William McAlpine, himself a salvage collector/ trader. Explore his “Ironhenge”, made from old St Pancras station columns, ride a steam train, try a zero-waste eatery and browse “ethical” food and homewares stalls. 18 WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Home gadgets

RED5 Own Message Desk Fan This 16cm desk fan literally makes a statement. Plug it into your computer’s USB port for power and while you’re at it, you can use a simple piece of software to program up to 20 custom illuminated messages to be displayed by LED lights on the spinning fan blades. It’s £24.99 at johnlewis.com

NSA Rechargeable Column Fan Column fans are powerful beasts that don’t take up too much floor space but they’re a pain to move around the house. NSA’s model, right, is rechargeable, with a battery life of up to eight hours’ cordless use, so it’s more portable. Features include an aroma tray for adding scented oils, a remote control and a sleep timer to help keep you cool at bedtime. Priced £161.99 at nsauk.com

Netatmo Healthy Home Coach Whether it’s pollen, pollution or household chemicals, Londoners’ air quality is a health concern indoors as well as outside. This compact gadget, left, measures air quality, humidity, KeepKeep youryoyouoour coolcoocooll temperature and noise in the home and relays data and alerts to an app. It’s extra helpful for managing asthma Caramel Quin finds fan-tastic tech for those hot summer nights and allergies, and a special baby mode can send you alerts if the nursery gets too warm. It’s £89.99 at netatmo.com

Swan Retro Desk Fan This simple, stylish 12in desk fan from Swan features three speed settings, adjustable tilt and oscillates to cool the whole room. But we especially love the range of retro colours, with bright and pastel shades available. It’s powerful enough for most rooms and costs £49.99 but if you really want to go large, Swan also offers a 16in floor-standing fan for £69.99, again in a good range of colours. Visit swan-brand.co.uk

Dyson Pure Hot+Cool Link This new Dyson, right, does everything you’d expect from the company’s Air Multiplier fans — and more. A built-in HEPA filter improves air quality as the fan operates, removing 99.95 per cent of ultra-fine particles as small as 0.1 microns. Sensors detect air quality then adjust airflow to ensure optimum filtration. You can even track indoor air quality via app. A built-in heater makes it useful year round. It’s £499.99 at dyson.co.uk

Honeywell HT354EI This large, square Honeywell QuietSet Fan makes very little noise, so it’s discreet anywhere but especially perfect for cooling down a bedroom on a summer’s night. Digital controls on the front let you choose between its four power settings, with noise levels ranging from 39 to 51 decibels. The price is £49.99 — visit argos.co.uk 22 WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Our home homesandproperty.co.uk

Dappled delight: the stair is sided with perforated steel panels on the upper floors It’s all about being brave A wildly stylish futuristic transformation of a Georgian terrace was the dream come true for this couple, discovers Philippa Stockley

UTTING a Georgian house is design side of things. “Quality of life is a rarely possible in London top priority for us, and living near where because so many have been you work is imperative — I love my busi- listed, making alterations ness,” Mauro says. The couple lived in difficult. But if you can find Pimlico, but in 2009 they wanted a big- Gone in an unlisted terrace with no origi- ger house with a big basement for an nal interiors left, the transformation can inviting cooking/entertaining space. be spectacular — as it has been in the home of Sardinia-born London restau- That’s a tall order in London, where base- rateur Mauro Sanna and his English wife, ments are usually cramped and dark. Ashlea. But it was their red line. The couple own Even so, once the entire insides of their a Mediterranean-modern house in Sar- property had gone, and all Ashlea could dinia. Under blazing blue skies it’s all see were four walls, sky, and “a bloody about light, with huge picture windows great house-sized hole” she couldn’t quite and clean, contemporary spaces, and believe it would ever be “home” again. this light-filled look was what they Mauro, 58, and Ashlea, 49, bought their wanted in London. Sardinia also inspires 2,150sq ft, five-storey house in a Belgra- the food and design at Mauro’s restau- via back street in 2010, lived in it for four rants, frequented by stars such as Dame years, then in 2015 went for broke with Maggie Smith. a total transformation, creating some- Mauro and Ashlea spotted the house thing with hints of the Thunderbirds. It in 2010. The rooms were tired, but the is gung-ho in its technological adven- basement had excellent height and had tures yet still in the spirit of the 18th already been opened up with an old century, when grace and light were extension and a walled garden beyond. essentials. The couple knew architect Andy Martin and liked his adventurous, modern style, Self-made Mauro came to London at 18. so they asked him to do the job. Their He wanted to be an architect, but instead brief was important: contemporary, with started his first Olivo restaurant in 1990 in Belgravia. He’d met art student Ashlea Innovative idea: top right, the concrete in King’s Road in 1986. They’re a good lobby floor was cast on site; right, a new team. Ashlea does the social media and extension has sliding glass doors EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE 2017 23 powered by Our home | Homes & Property Get the look O Architect: Andy Martin (andymartinarchitecture.com) O Oak floorboards: custom-made by Parquet Flooring (parquet-flooring. co.uk) O Polished plaster: sphere8.com O Steel staircase: by Burvills (burvills. co.uk) O Lighting design: by Pedro Pinto (pintolightingdesign.com) O Industrial cooker: by Mareno (mareno.it/en) O Lamp over kitchen island: from establishedandsons.com O Kitchen bar stools: ikea.com O Kitchen chairs: from Ligne Roset (ligne-roset-city.co.uk) O Kitchen sofa: from Cassina (cassina. com/en) O Potence swing lamp over kitchen table: by Jean Prouvé at vitra.com O Olive green chair in drawing room: from Poliform (poliformuk.com) O Orange Beetle chair: from Gubi (gubi.dk) O Aim suspension lights in drawing room: from flos.com O Grey linen for bedroom curtains: from theclothshop.net O Fake plants: from Blooming Artificial (bloomingartificial.co.uk) O Olivo restaurants and shops: visit olivorestaurants.com

Sleek and light: left, the basement, with super ceiling height, opens to the garden CHARLES HOSEA Clear idea: Mauro Sanna and wife Ashlea wanted modern interiors, full of light

lit by a roof light above. The upper floors are all understated comfort. Two double bedrooms have big en suites, and the large mansard room is for guests. In these parts the décor is serene — pale grey for the linen curtains, bed linen and tiles. But there’s a stylish glass wall between bed- room and bathroom in the master suite, and a fully mirrored wall in the bath- room above, both adding a posh bou- tique look without flash. Everywhere else, modern and mid-century furniture enhances the overall look.

UCH a big look has to be concrete, stone, steel, polished plaster, Now you can see up or down, and light In a style league utility room and loo are white and prac- tempered by immaculate detail, and lots of light. Also vital was to connect filters through the thick circles of glass. of its own: above, tical, and the garden is easy-mainte- and that is the case here. “We the basement with the first floor. “First From below, the concrete structure hold- a reeded-glass nance, with herbs and climbers. love Sardinia but on our first floors often become a redundant corri- ing them looks a bit like a giant waffle. screen creates an trip there after the house was dor you walk through,” Ashlea says. “We The avant-garde effect is terrific, and Art Deco-style Two design elements apart from the done,S we couldn’t wait to get home,” didn’t want that.” brings so much light downstairs that it lobby bubble floor put the house in its own Ashlea says. Martin suggested making the entire doesn’t feel like a basement at all. league. A reeded-glass steel-frame screen Knockout houses like this need a bold floor between souped-up basement and The room is huge. Luckily it didn’t need High light: above creates a gracious, Art Deco-style lobby architect and an equally bold client, first floor out of glass pavement lights, to be lowered. A modern extension with left, pavement on the first floor. But the pièce de résist- prepared to take a risk. Here, although those thick, round glass things you see sliding glass now replaces the old one lights are set ance is a floating, blackened steel folded ripping out took a quick month, the underfoot and don’t think about. and floors throughout the house are pale between the first stair that goes all the way up through the entire job took nearly two years — but They’re not usually used in domestic white oak. The kitchen area and island, floor and the house. At the bottom it doesn’t touch the the results speak for themselves. interiors. To do it, he’d engineer a con- designed by Martin, is Corian, with a Corian kitchen floor, like a steel stirrup. On the ground crete floor set in a steel frame, cast on huge steel catering cooker. Mauro loves floor it’s sided with patinated steel, so WHAT IT COST site, with the glass circles set in. A pretty its industrial extractor and big lava-stone you almost don’t notice it, while on the O House in 2010: £1.6 million innovative idea. The couple were doubt- barbecue, for super-healthy Mediter- Photographs:: upper floors the steel side is perforated, O Money spent, 2015: £700,000 ful, but went for it. ranean food. 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Green space matters: right, Whittington Park, has football pitches and a community café

Walk this way: left, smart new pedestrianised space is key to the area’s radical makeover

Photographs: Daniel Lynch Spotlight on Archway First-time buyers and young families are creating a fresh community buzz in this regenerated Zone 2 neighbourhood. By Anthea Masey

FTER 15 months of traffic Whittington cat — a floral one — at the and pedestrian chaos the Start your property entrance to Whittington Park in Hol- finishing line is in sight for loway Road, along with a new mural Archway, the north Lon- search on depicting the plucky Whittington, his don neighbourhood which rightmove.co.uk meagre possessions tied up in a scarf isA emerging from a £12.8 million facelift. carried on a stick. The hated gyratory roundabout has The story is largely mythical of been swept away and a new public course. There was a Richard Whitting- square has been created at the bottom ton who was Mayor of London three of Highgate Hill in front of the Archway times between 1397 and 1419 but far Tavern, the pub that famously featured from being a penniless traveller he was on the cover of The Kinks’ 1971 album, the son of a wealthy merchant who Muswell Hillbillies. apprenticed him to a City mercer. As Sitting astride the A1 at the bottom of of Archway. The area’s tallest building, for the cat, the theory is that Whitting- the steep hill leading to Highgate, Arch- 17-storey Vantage Point, has been ton, who was essentially a city com- Child’s play: Whittington Park play area’s a family favourite way used to be one of those London reclad and converted into 118 flats for modity trader, did have a cat but rather districts that people either passed rent by developer Essential Living, than being of the feline variety, it was through on their way to somewhere while eight-storey Hamlyn House has a type of coal barge. else, or rushed to when they needed been converted into a Premier Inn Still, there’s no denying Whittington Regeneration: Whittington Hospital A&E department. hotel with a ground-floor restaurant. left his mark on Archway. As well as a the gyratory Now it is becoming a destination in its Meanwhile, developer Bode is about hospital and a park, there is Pauntley roundabout has own right. to launch another office-to-residential Street, named after the village in gone and a new Local estate agent Shaun Cunning- conversion at nearby Hill House and Gloucestershire where he grew up, and public square ham, of Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, revamp the Archway shopping mall. Fitzwarren Gardens — a reference to has been created is pleased to report that the area’s leafy Folklore has it that Archway is where the family he married into. in a £12.8 million roads of Victorian houses, well-rated Dick Whittington and his cat heard the Archway is on the A1, the Great North 15-month project primary schools, Zone 2 location and Bow bells ring out: “Turn again, Dick Road out of London. Four-and-a-half good transport links are attracting an Whittington, thrice Lord Mayor of miles north of central London, it has increasing number of first-time buyers London”. The spot is marked with a Highgate to the north, Highbury to the and young families. monument featuring a small stone cat east, Islington and Camden Town to Over the last couple of years, change in Highgate Hill near the junction with the south and Tufnell Park and Kentish Popular pit stop: Bread and Bean café in Junction Road has come thick and fast to the centre Magdala Avenue. There is another Town to the west.

£595,000 £525,000 £1.25 MILLION A MODERN two-bedroom duplex flat with a IN GIRDLESTONE WALK, N19, this two-bedroom NEAR excellent schools, a three-bedroom Victorian private entrance in Cornwallis Road, N19, with maisonette with a private balcony in a quiet setting house in Cressida Road, N19, in the Whitehall Park communal gardens. Foxtons (020 8012 6725). is for sale through Foxtons (as before). conservation area. Through KFH (020 8012 2754). £999,950 IN FAIRBRIDGE ROAD, N19, this three-bedroom To find a home in Archway, visit modern house, with an open-plan living space and rightmove.co.uk floor-to-ceiling glass doors to a private courtyard, For more about Archway, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/archway is for sale through Foxtons (020 8012 6733). EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE 2017 33 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Property searching | Homes & Property

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STATS CHECK WHAT HOMES COST BUYING IN ARCHWAY (Average prices) One-bedroom flat £423,011 Two-bedroom flat £566,162 Two-bedroom house £860,000 Three-bedroom house £936,036 Four-bedroom house £1,302,083 Source: Rightmove RENTING IN ARCHWAY (Average rates) One-bedroom flat £1,499 a month Two-bedroom flat £1,889 a month Two-bedroom house £1,938 a month Three-bedroom house £2,180 a month Four-bedroom house £2,708 a month Source: Rightmove

FOR MORE, VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk O Use our School Checker to find catchment areas and inspection reports for local schools O The best Archway shops and restaurants and the liveliest new local cafés O A look at the local arts, leisure and sports scenes O The best streets in Archway — and up-and-coming spots to watch. O Where to target your search for a well-priced family home in the neighbourhood O Archway’s surprising number of parks and green spaces

THE PROPERTY SCENE

LEAFY roads of mainly Victorian area is a five-bedroom property, for NEW-BUILD HOMES information, call Savills on 020 7016 properties in Archway include family £1.75 million. The Whittington Estate Hill House in the centre of Archway 3700 or Goldschmidt & Howland on houses and period conversions. The off Dartmouth Park Hill is a brutalist is a development of 156 studios, one-, 020 8347 2600. most expensive house currently for development of Seventies flats two- and three-bedroom apartments sale is a four-bedroom remodelled designed by Peter Tabori from the which is being launched on June 18. AFFORDABLE HOMES home in Hornsey Lane with golden age of Camden council Prices start from £300,000 and the Housing association Peabody spectacular views over central housing design. KFH agent Shaun penthouses are likely to be priced acquired the former Holborn and London, priced £2.5 million. Cunningham says the estate is from £1 million. The first residents Finsbury Union workhouse infirmary The most expensive house in the popular with architects and he gets are due to move into Hill House buildings from UCL three years ago. popular Whitehall Park conservation specific requests for flats there. during October. For more The planning application for what is likely to be a mixed-use scheme will include the restoration and HAVE YOUR SAY: ARCHWAY conversion of the main Victorian TRANSPORT buildings. It has yet to be formally LOCALS TWEET THEIR TIPS Supporting local makers: Ian Morris submitted but there will be ARCHWAY station is on owns Map Gift Shop in Junction Road affordable homes in the mix. A new the High Barnet branch @MeganCarver @TheArchwegian round of public consultation will take of the Northern line @fabriziochef77 on Yildiz Bakery, Archway place before the application goes to Tube with trains to the Highgate Hill is a firm Kebab, Sushi Wa, Theatre council planners. The architect is City and the West End. favourite. @hotwokkitchen of Wine and many more. award-winning Haworth Tompkins. Upper Holloway is on is a delicious new addition It’s just a wonderful, the Gospel Oak to to Archway and the best diverse community WHO RENTS HERE? Barking Overground shop is @mapgiftshop Bianca Marchini, lettings negotiator line. Both stations are in @Lykkestweets at Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward says Zone 2 and an annual @sspowles Sushi Wa is my favourite Archway is becoming increasingly travelcard to Zone 1 @hotwokkitchen is fantastic restaurant in London, popular with renters, who are mainly costs £1,296. Waterloo Park is my couples, sharers and young families. There are plenty of @tinaseskis I love Mosaic favourite park, “Archway used to be a much commuter buses restaurant for its fab secret @_RubyViolet is divine cheaper place to rent than Highgate including the No 17 to London Bridge via St Paul’s; the No 43, garden, Sushi Wa for but the differential is narrowing as the also to London Bridge but via Islington; the No 134 to awesome food, Map for @crouchendmum1 area regenerates. It also has the Tottenham Court Road; the No 271 to Moorgate and the gifts, St John’s for tapas, Café Del Parc and the advantage of being in Zone 2 rather No 390 to Notting Hill via Oxford Street. the fish shop for... well, fish Hideaway — lovely places Vintage finds: Yuksel Karaagac owns than Zone 3, so commuting is less Resurrection Boutique, Archway Road expensive.” 36 WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Inside story My bulky bin liners Diary of an estate worry the locals agent MONDAY the friend has gone the client has asked My dog Rufus wakes me up as he wants me to dispose of the perishable con- firm, so much so that Knight Frank cre- to go for a walk, so I catch up on some tents. What she doesn’t tell me is that ated a charity wristband for Trinity emails as we wander along the road this industrial-size freezer is full of huge Hospice in her honour. The church was before I set off for work. cuts of mystery meat. Having loaded it packed and it was a beautiful tribute to This morning we are launching a new all into bin liners I get some rather her life and everything she did within house and I head over to meet the concerned looks from neighbours as I Knight Frank. negotiators in the neighbouring offices, dispose of my own bodyweight in as in Fulham we have a lot of crossover meat. FRIDAY from applicants registering in Chelsea We hear back on yesterday’s offers Most of our tenancies start on Friday and South Kensington. This house is and one in Fabian Road is going to best to give tenants the weekend to move something else — not only does it have and final bids tomorrow afternoon. in and settle. I begin the day putting a large pink Aga but there’s a pink slide together the welcome packs and deliv- and a swimming pool, too. Abbie in our WEDNESDAY ering them to the properties. Part of Chelsea office got the memo and I make my way to the appraisal of a the reason I decided to get a motorbike arrives wearing a jazzy pink jacket. She house on the Peterborough Estate, was to beat London traffic so that if a can’t resist a go on the slide but she always a popular spot with tenants. On tenant is arriving, I can be there in looks a dusty shade of grey after- arrival I take off my shoes — my ongoing minutes. wards. refusal to switch from brogues to loaf- On this occasion the weather counts Then it’s back to base for a call-out. ers makes this slightly cumbersome — against me. I arrive to greet the new It’s generally very busy in the office. I and the family dog takes a liking to tenants looking like the “Bovril biker” barely see Amelia in my team after 11am them. When I finish the appointment advert. The clients give me full marks and she rarely returns before 6pm — only one of my shoes is where I left it. for effort. and often with a number of offers. Our I feel bad retrieving the other from the Tom from our Japanese desk in cor- new opening hours of 8am to 7.30pm dog, who’s got it in his basket and porate services is with us for the day as Monday to Thursday and 10am to 5pm seems to think it’s his new toy. he has three searches that we are help- on Saturday seem to be paying off. We Our client for Fabian Road is in Dubai ing him with. I just have time to whizz are really putting in the work for our and the final offers are sent across to home to change before our viewings. clients. her to make a decision. I catch up with the team at 6pm and round off the week updating our clients TUESDAY THURSDAY as my diary tomorrow looks like it is I receive a rather panicky phone call It’s rather an emotional day because I back to back. I must remember my overnight from a client in California. am attending the memorial service for waterproofs… She’s worried that a friend who has the queen of Knight Frank, Eliza Leigh. been staying in her London flat might She was an incredible lady and really O Robert Gittins is lettings manager at have switched off the freezer, and now set the benchmark for client care in the Knight Frank in Fulham (020 7751 2411). 38 WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Letting on

ITH the general election tomorrow, I thought it would be a good idea to look at which of the two Which box Wmain parties is the most landlord- friendly. Frankly, it is really a case of trying to decide which is the lesser of two evils. You might think the Conservatives should I put would be least likely to do private landlords much harm, but the party has proved it can’t be trusted to take care of us. They’ve already taken away buy-to-let mortgage interest tax relief for private landlords and added my cross in? a three per cent stamp duty levy for anyone who already owns a property. Labour or Tory? Victoria Whitlock weighs These tax changes will make it much harder for private landlords to profit, up the policies and concludes private landlords but what makes the withdrawal of loan mortgage interest tax relief even will get a bashing, whoever wins the election more damaging to accidental and amateur landlords who own just one the bedposts to get them to stay for or two properties is the fact that three years, and I hardly ever increase rentals owned by companies still The the rent, these policies will give qualify for loan interest tax relief, so lenders the jitters so landlords will it’s harder for us to compete. accidental find it harder to borrow, and the £465 a week: a studio flat in the new Vantage Point tower at Junction Road in added risks will force many to sell up. Archway N19, with communal facilities including a gym and terraces with Landlords who own their properties amazing views, is available to rent through Dexters. Call 020 7267 5500. within a company structure will also landlord Let’s not forget that this Labour Party benefit from the Tories’ planned has also floated the idea of extending reduction of corporation tax to 17 per UK, it will damage the whole of the right to buy to private tenants, which former Tory leader David Cameron but I know that many landlords cent by 2020, so while small investors rental sector. Also, while the Tories would see landlords forced to sell announced his intention to introduce believe that agents will just pass the like me could see our tax bills rocket have said they want to “encourage” their properties to their tenants at such a ban, Prime Minister Theresa costs on to them, which will over the next few years, corporate landlords to offer more secure hefty discounts. This proposal has May appears to be back-pedalling. She ultimately lead to higher rents, so no landlords will pay less and less. tenancies, Labour is intent on been dropped for the time being, but has voted against the move in the past one wins. Labour has promised to push introducing minimum three-year that doesn’t mean it won’t rear its and, if she stays in power, she might corporation tax back up to 26 per tenancies combined with rent caps, head again in the future. let the idea slide. O Victoria Whitlock lets four cent, which will level the playing field which could be an utter disaster for Additionally, Labour leader Jeremy I would actually support a ban on properties in south London. a little. However, if this results in the private rental market. While I’d do Corbyn is known to be in favour of a letting agents’ fees to tenants because To contact Victoria with your ideas fewer jobs and less investment in the everything short of nailing tenants to ban on letting agents’ fees. While I don’t see how they can be justified, and views, tweet @vicwhitlock 40 WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes SmartSmartmoSmaSmmartmartmmarartrt moo By David Spittles Mid-century is so modern QUICK hop to the station debut development of Meyer Homes, Rugby and theatre fans sorted and a manageable school which was formed in 2015 with the run have always been acquisition of a basket of sites from THE Lions rugby tour is priorities for families the Tesco supermarket chain. under way in New searching for a bigger Meyer embraced the contemporary Zealand but Aand better-value house in the architectural style of the original Twickenham is still in commuter belt outside London. planning consent but brought in the spotlight. Today’s buyers are increasingly Conran and Partners to revamp what The town centre is design conscious, too, and want a were conventional interior floor getting a facelift with home with a modern interior and plans with a wider central stairwell, a riverside schemes such flexible layout that looks good and double-height void and pocket doors as Brewery Gate, above feels glamorous. that slide back into walls. and right, which has 82 Gabriel Square, in the cathedral These limestone-clad, four-storey flats and 28 houses, a city of St Albans, ticks all of these homes are a spacious 2,000sq ft, new public square, boxes. This scheme of 52 townhouses with white walls and light oak timber restaurants and 350- and 28 apartments, right and far floors throughout. seat theatre venue. It right top and bottom, set around a They incorporate a garden and also benefits from a large, smartly landscaped square is a balconies, an internal courtyard and direct underpass to the bedroom townhouses from £1.55 million. A refreshing break from the usual external spiral staircase plus a train station. with portico entrances, new show home has commuter land architectural styles. secluded roof terrace accessed via a lower-floor entrance to the Within a gated mews first-floor terraces and opened. Call St James Inspired by mid-century modern glass box that forms the top of a underground car park. St Albans to are Georgian-style four- rooftop dormers, priced on 020 3642 9714. design principles, the project is central light well. Some have an St Pancras is a 20-minute commute, particularly impressive for being the integral garage while others have a making Gabriel Square especially EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE 2017 41 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by New homes | Homes & Property

FEW parts of London have such a NEW JEWELS fascinating history as Holborn, once Thinking of a borough in its own right. The HATTON GARDEN district stretches from Smithfield to BOUTIQUE FLATS moving to an Covent Garden, taking in the Hatton Garden jewellery quarter and exciting Chancery Lane’s Inns of Court. jewellery quarter, seven flats have new-build “Urban” since the Middle Ages, it been created in a refurbished still has ancient guilds and trades, warehouse with offices at street level. home? and is now finding a fresh residential All the homes have outside space, profile with tasteful homes for a new underfloor heating and comfort Start your generation of local employees — cooling. From £645,000. Call lawyers, accountants and media Hamptons on 020 3451 1544. search on creatives — who want to live close to The Grays also slots into this convenient for anyone who works at Call estate agent Collinson Hall on their workplace. Many of the new category. Formerly solicitors’ offices, the expanding King’s Cross business 01727 843222. Other Meyer projects homes are boutique developments in there are now 13 flats with 24-hour district. Townhouses cost from in the pipeline include sites in keeping with the area’s individuality. concierge. From £638,750. Call 020 £1,195,000, with flats from £475,000. Fulham, Lewisham and Kingston. At Hatton Wall, above, in the 7416 6749.