Chelsea, SW3
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Townhouse
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Under Offer
A brick house on a street built for painters, with a north-lit studio still at the top.
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Freehold · Council Tax Band H · EPC D
Mallord Street was laid out just before the First World War, and several of its houses were built for artists. This one has a studio under the roof, with a tall north window that gives the even light painters wanted. The rooms below are simple and generous, arranged around a wide timber staircase.
The current owners, a furniture maker and a writer, used the studio as it was meant to be used. They added a kitchen at garden level and a second bathroom, and otherwise left the house to its brick, its panelling and its long, quiet garden.
An offer has been accepted, subject to contract.
Every room in the order a viewing would take you. The plan follows along as you go; tap any room on it to step straight there.
The front door opens into a narrow hall that runs the depth of the house to the wide timber staircase at the back. The stair is the original, with turned balusters and a heavy carved newel. Both reception rooms open off the hall, and a cloakroom sits beneath the landing.
At the front of the ground floor, with two tall windows onto the street and a fireplace on the party wall. The floor is the original oak, and the shelving either side of the chimney was made by the present owners. A dining room behind it looks down the garden.
The owners opened up the garden level across the whole back of the house. A long table stands in front of a pair of glazed timber doors that open straight onto the terrace, and the room gets the sun from late morning.
The garden faces south and runs eighteen metres from the kitchen doors. A stone terrace gives way to a long lawn between planted borders, with two old trees at the far end. It is one of the quietest gardens on the street.
The front of the first floor, with timber panelling on two walls and a pair of tall windows hung with heavy linen. The floorboards are the originals. The bathroom is across the landing, and the study is behind.
One of the two bathrooms the owners added, with a freestanding bath under a sash window and a long timber vanity built in the workshop. The floor is wide oak boards, treated for water. It serves the principal bedroom.
At the back of the first floor, where the writer of the household worked. A long desk runs under a row of windows that look down the garden, with bookshelves on the inner wall. It is the room with the best light in the afternoon.
At the back of the top floor, under the slope of the roof, with a window over the garden. Pale oak boards and plain white walls keep it simple. A third bedroom and a shower room share this floor.
The reason the house was built: a studio across the whole front of the top floor, lit by a tall north window that gives the even light painters wanted. The present owners used it as a furniture workshop. It is a room that could become almost anything, and is best left as it is.
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The King’s Road is at the end of the street, and Chelsea Old Church and the river are a short walk south. South Kensington and Sloane Square stations are each about fifteen minutes on foot.
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