The Orchard, London, W4

Individual and exceptionally elegant Grade II listed detached house including a magnificent drawing room, grand staircase, detached garage and stunning garden.

Description

Individual and exceptionally elegant Grade II listed detached house featuring a magnificent drawing room, a grand sweeping staircase, a detached garage, and a stunning private garden.

An imposing detached family house, built around 1880 and attributed to architect Norman Shaw, this unique house is situated on one of Bedford Park’s most coveted locations. It has been owned by the same family for over half a century. The architecture is stunning, featuring a stepped gable roof and an array of wonderful period features.

This exceptional house occupies one of the best addresses in Bedford Park’s conservation area. It offers many unique attributes and a wealth of period features. These include the incredibly spacious drawing room with beautiful original leaded pained windows, one of which occupies a large bay. Off this is the conservatory, providing access to the large and very private mature garden. The principal bedroom was formerly an artist studio with galleried areas overlooking this magnificent space.

Upon entering the house, you are immediately welcomed by a large and wonderful hallway with a unique sweeping staircase that connects the three floors, setting the scene for the grand proportions throughout. To the side is a detached garage, and off-street parking is available. Subject to necessary planning and legal consents, the house could be altered and potentially extended.

Location

Situated in the heart of Bedford Park, The Orchard is one of the most sought after streets in the conservation area. It is ideally placed for the excellent shops, boutiques and restaurants of central Chiswick, and is very close to Turnham Green Terrace.

Turnham Green Underground station (District & Piccadilly lines) is approximately 0.3 miles away. This location offers easy access to central London via the A4, and via the M4 for Heathrow Airport and the west of England. The property is also ideally located for some of London's best primary and secondary schools including Orchard House, Latymer Prep and Upper School, Ravenscourt Prep, and Heathfield House School.

Chiswick is a hugely popular and prosperous large suburb of West London located on the northern side of the River Thames, 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Charing Cross. It was historically an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex, with an agrarian and fishing economy. The name "Chiswick" is of Old English origin meaning "Cheese Farm" and originates from the riverside meadows and farms that are thought to have supported an annual cheese fair on Dukes Meadows up until the 18th century.

The style of property in Chiswick is varied offering everything from mansion flats along the High Road and on Sutton Court Road, to pretty Victorian cottages on the Glebe Estate. Large Victorian detached houses are found in Grove Park, and Arts & Crafts houses throughout Bedford Park. The River front, Chiswick Mall and Strand on the Green are lined with elegant Georgian houses ensuring that there is a fantastic variety of property throughout the local area.

Chiswick High Road, famous for its boulevard-style pavements, is full of quality independent outlets and an increasingly up-market selection of high street names which run from Hammersmith through to the Chiswick roundabout.

Among Chiswick’s fine dining choices are Michelin-starred La Trompette on Devonshire Road and Le Vacherin on South Parade. High Road House and its Brasserie are part of the Soho House empire plus numerous high street restaurants.

Lord Burlington’s Chiswick House is a picturesque, 18th-century Palladian mansion with gardens designed by William Kent. The birthplace of the English Landscape Movement, the gardens, with their statuary hedges and vistas, has had a £12 million makeover which includes a new café by architects Caruso St John. In recent years Chiswick House grounds have played host to Soho House group’s House Festival, enticing the great and the good of the media industry with performers who are both nationally renowned and locally resident.

Bedford Park, London’s first garden suburb, was built between 1875 and 1886 as part of the Arts & Crafts revival. Victorian property developer Jonathan Carr instructed lead architect Richard Norman Shaw (alongside EJ May, W Wilson and EW Godwin) in the building of a collection of houses and studios that now form a conservation area and are for the most part Grade II listed. Many of these houses feature elements of styling from William Morris, to whose legacy is dedicated the William Morris Society at Kelmscott House on Upper Mall.

Square Footage: 4,063 sq ft