Manchuria Road SW11

The Tour
As you enter, to your right is a bright and large double reception room with high ceilings, immaculate period features. The wide bay window overlooks the front of the property and boasts plantation shutters. With natural wooden flooring throughout, this entertaining space boasts bespoke cabinetry and two original Victorian fireplaces and surrounds.

The house then takes you through to a superb extended kitchen/breakfast room which is perfect for family life and entertaining. This bright modern kitchen, with underfloor heating, features a central island with counter-top seating and enough space for an additional large dining table. With an extensive range of fitted wall and base units, the kitchen incorporates multiple integrated appliances, including a Rangemaster with a five-ring gas burner, Neff dishwasher and a Samsung American-style fridge freezer. Through double French doors, you step into the pretty south-east facing garden which measures approximately 25ft in length. Laid with artificial lawn, the garden boasts mature shrubs and plants in the bordering beds. Concluding the ground floor, you find the elegant guest cloakroom.

The lower ground floor of this house is truly exceptional due to its layout, design and enormous ceiling height extending to 3m. Via an attractive lobby, and to the front, you enter the very large reception/family room has wooden flooring, underfloor heating, fully wired entertainment system including wall mounted speakers and also a large amount of built-in storage. With wide French doors you find a small external area with access to a storage cupboard housing the boiler which exclusively facilitates the lower ground floor. To the rear is a sizeable double bedroom with good natural light and is perfect for guests or used as au-pair accommodation. Adjacent is a generous and modern shower room with a large walk-in shower. Completing this floor, you have a fully equipped utility room which leads to a large separate storage room.

The large principal bedroom to the front is very bright due to its wide rectangular bay window and has floor to ceiling built-in wardrobes and an original fireplace. To the centre of the house, you have another generous double bedroom which is currently being used as a dressing room. Down a few steps to the rear mezzanine, you find a good-sized family shower room and further double bedroom which overlooks the garden.

On the top floor there is further large dual-aspect double bedroom with Velux skylights to the front and sash window to the rear. Currently used as a child’s bedroom this spacious room gives access to a generous amount of useful eaves storage. Adjacent is a bright and tranquil smaller room which allows the owners a separate home office. To the rear of the second floor is a further large double bedroom with views over surrounding gardens. Completing this floor is a family bathroom with separate bath and shower.

The Area
Manchuria Road is a popular and quiet residential road running south-west from Clapham Common West Side. The wide open spaces of Clapham Common are moments away with all its amenities including tennis courts, sports pitches, cafes and playgrounds.

This house offers easy access to the amenities of Northcote Road, Webb’s Road and Abbeville Road with its vast array of restaurants, shops, cafés and bars. The property benefits from the excellent transport links of Clapham South underground station being an under ten-minute walk. There is an extensive network of bus routes which serve southwest London and beyond.

The area provides an excellent variety of well-established independent and state schools, with the closest being Thomas’s Clapham and Eaton Manor House, but also including, Broomwood School, Belleville School and Honeywell School.