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The property consists of four bedrooms, three bathrooms, huge entertaining space, pool/games room, triple height ceiling, boiler/utility room, study/entrance hall, private residents’ courtyard garden, off street parking.

Viewing is highly recommended and if you are looking for a property that is light, airy, secure, comfortable, dramatic, spacious, stunning and unique then this is the property for you..

Flat 24 is the largest in the building and was first owned in 1981 by a member of 80s rock band, Duran Duran.

The current owners have undertaken significant redecoration and refurbishment including re-sanding floors and upgrading to a new 65Kw boiler in 2014.

The apartment’s four bedrooms are in three distinct zones within the apartment, each with its own shower/bath room, and all linked by the huge living space. There is a separate cloakroom in the entrance hall/study.

The kitchen forms one end of the 50’ x 21’ main room with an American fridge/freezer, ample storage, five burner gas hob and 90cm wide electric fan oven, stainless steel and glass work surfaces.

Views from the apartment over the treetops into Central London, Canary Wharf, The Shard, Telecom Tower.

Nb. There are fifty stairs to the apartment’s front door, with several further internal staircases. There aren’t any lifts.

 

About the building:

The Royal Victoria Patriotic Building is a Grade 2* listed former orphanage for female orphans of servicemen who fought in the Crimean War (1853 – 1856). The foundation stone was laid by Queen Victoria in 1857, and her great, great grandson, Prince Michael of Kent, attended the 150th anniversary celebrations in 2007.

After being used as a teacher training college and a school after the second war, the building was saved from dereliction in 1980 and turned into a mixed-use building, containing offices, workshops, a drama school and a bar/restaurant on the ground floor, and 29 apartments from the first floor up. See for full history.

The bar & restaurant within the building is called Le Gothique and it is open to the public from Tuesday to Saturday. They also host weddings and other events.

In the area:

• Clapham Junction is 15 minutes’ walk, or local buses 219 & 77 go there. Trains from cj  to Waterloo, Victoria, Gatwick Airport, Brighton, Watford, almost anywhere. (The Northern Line extension to Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station may also be extended to Clapham Junction after completion to Battersea in 2020.)


• Wandsworth has the lowest Council Tax in the UK. The 2015 charge for Flat 24, is under £1000.


• Schools:
  
  
  
  • Emanuel School (independent, mixed, age 10 – 18) – five minutes’ walk
  
  
  • Wandsworth Prep (independent, mixed, age 4 – 11) – seven minutes’ walk
  
  
  • Northcote Lodge (independent, boys, 8 – 13) – ten minutes’ walk
  
  
  • Allfarthing Primary (mixed state primary 4-11) – 12 minutes’ walk
  
  
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• Other local amenities:
  
  
  
  • St Johns Hill for bars, cafés, restaurants, Sainsbury’s Local, doctor, dentist (eight minute walk)
  
  
  • Northcote Road: Bars, cafés, restaurants, shopping and weekend market (ten minute walk)
  
  
  • Clapham Junction: Transport links, department store and high street shops, three gyms (fifteen minute walk or short bus journey/bike ride)
  
  
  • Wandsworth town centre: Southside shopping centre & Cineworld complex, three gyms (ten minutes’ walk)
  
  
  • Road transport: A3/South Circular Road is 400 metres away for access to M25 London orbital motorway, south coast and south west.
  
  
  • Wandsworth Common: Lawn bowls, tennis courts, cricket, football & rugby pitches, café, children’s’ playground, Bellevue Road for restaurants and bars
  
  
  • Local pubs: Le Gothique, The Roundhouse, The Northcote, The County Arms, The Ship, The East Hill, The Alma, The Hope, The Nightingale,
  
  
  
  

 

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