Frognal

The front door opens onto the original tiled floor, laid in 1898 in a pattern of black, white and terracotta that runs the length of the hall. The oak staircase rises on the right towards the back of the house. Every principal room on this floor opens off the hall, and a cloakroom sits beneath the half-landing.

To the left of the front door, with a deep bay window looking down the slope of the garden and a second window onto the drive. The walls are painted a dark teal, which suits the evening light, and the floor is the original oak. A fireplace stands on the side wall, with built-in shelves either side.

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Across the hall, a long room lined in timber bookcases, with a fireplace at the centre of the inner wall. Two windows face the front and the plane trees on the drive. It is the warmest room in the house in winter, and the one most families end up using every evening.

Panelled in honey-coloured oak, with a beamed ceiling and a pair of tall windows onto the side garden. The table seats ten. A door at the far end leads straight into the conservatory, so summer lunches can move outside without crossing the house.

The kitchen runs the depth of the house on the garden side and opens through double doors onto the stone terrace. A long island with a timber top faces a range set into the old chimney breast. The open shelving and pendant lights were added in 2015; the doors and the floorboards are original.

A sheltered terrace against the old brick wall of the dining room, paved in herringbone brick beneath an arched window salvaged from a glasshouse. It faces south-west and catches the sun from midday.

The garden falls away from the house in three levels. A stone terrace outside the kitchen gives way to a long lawn edged with deep borders, and steps lead down to an orchard of old apple trees at the bottom. In all it is a little under half an acre, and from the orchard the house is barely visible.

Above the drawing room, with two tall windows that look over the treetops towards the Heath. The walls are plain and pale, and the original oak boards have been left bare. The principal bathroom opens off the bedroom, and there is a fireplace on the side wall.

A cast-iron bath on claw feet stands in front of tongue-and-groove panelling, with a window onto the side garden above it. The floor is painted timber. It is reached through the principal bedroom, so it is quiet and private.

One of three bedrooms in the roof, under a pitched ceiling with the old timber trusses painted white. Twin dormer windows look out over the front of the house. A bathroom and a shower room on this floor make it a self-contained level for older children or guests.