House For Sale £475,000
** Vendors comments ** "My mother used to say she’d ‘come in through the door and the peace of the house envelopes you as you leave your cares outside’. When I was little, I never quite understood, but Time (and lockdown) revealed (and re-revealed) the sanctuary the home exudes. The home is spacious and bright, with its front garden of roses and its back garden, bordering a park, giving an access to Nature that at times is quite extraordinary: The variety of birds (song thrush, gold crest, long tailed tit, goldfinch, great spotted woodpecker, sparrow, wren…), breathtakingly beautiful birdsong, foxes, squirrels, butterflies, honeybees, ducks!...Childhood memories stirred of exploring the park and the Brook, picking wild raspberries and blackberries, chasing and catching insects, riding my bike…and all this though not living in the countryside! Space to breathe!
Memories pervade of large family and friend gatherings – birthday parties in the through-lounge with the ‘banquet’ set up in the dining room, still suffused in natural light; barbecues in the garden that once contained a sizeable vegetable garden; of the camaraderie, angst, tears, joy that filled the generous kitchen, replicating no doubt the emotions housed in that part of it that served as an air-raid shelter during WWll;…of the stay-overs, sleep-overs in the three double bedrooms and the double room in the loft…As a child scared by siblings of the ‘bogeyman’ that lived in the side rooms of the loft…Of my mother, preparing for old age with the addition of a downstairs shower-room and toilet…A family home with its joys, frets, disputes, tears, laughter and comforts…
A home in easy reach of everything – the High Street; London Road shops and restaurants; an easy walk via the parks to Streatham Common or in the opposite direction to Grangewood Park and onto South Norwood Lake or why not on to Crystal Palace instead?; the train station that gives access to London Victoria and London Bridge or better yet, via East Croydon, the further escapes to Bedford, Cambridge and onwards or for trips to the coast instead (Brighton, Littlehampton, Bognor Regis…) or to Gatwick where the world may be your oyster!
We love and we lost…my mum was called ‘home’ and so new memories for this family home are to be born".
Entrance hall
double reception room
dining room
kitchen
utility area
downstairs shower-room
bedroom one
bedroom two
family bathroom
bedroom three
loft room
garden
Memories pervade of large family and friend gatherings – birthday parties in the through-lounge with the ‘banquet’ set up in the dining room, still suffused in natural light; barbecues in the garden that once contained a sizeable vegetable garden; of the camaraderie, angst, tears, joy that filled the generous kitchen, replicating no doubt the emotions housed in that part of it that served as an air-raid shelter during WWll;…of the stay-overs, sleep-overs in the three double bedrooms and the double room in the loft…As a child scared by siblings of the ‘bogeyman’ that lived in the side rooms of the loft…Of my mother, preparing for old age with the addition of a downstairs shower-room and toilet…A family home with its joys, frets, disputes, tears, laughter and comforts…
A home in easy reach of everything – the High Street; London Road shops and restaurants; an easy walk via the parks to Streatham Common or in the opposite direction to Grangewood Park and onto South Norwood Lake or why not on to Crystal Palace instead?; the train station that gives access to London Victoria and London Bridge or better yet, via East Croydon, the further escapes to Bedford, Cambridge and onwards or for trips to the coast instead (Brighton, Littlehampton, Bognor Regis…) or to Gatwick where the world may be your oyster!
We love and we lost…my mum was called ‘home’ and so new memories for this family home are to be born".
Entrance hall
double reception room
dining room
kitchen
utility area
downstairs shower-room
bedroom one
bedroom two
family bathroom
bedroom three
loft room
garden
