We take a tour of a super space in Greenwich, a two bedroom renovation project for sale for £595,000

[00:00:00]Hello folks, welcome back to the channel. Thanks for joining Stephen and I here today over in Greenwich. Now, some of you may have seen a video that we made a while ago now about a house in Aubrey Street. I have done a little intro on this particular flat in my unique property company channel, but we're here today to chat through this particular property that was owned by the old owners of the house in Aubrey Street with all those books.

[00:00:26]The reason we're here is because this is a light touch renovation project and I'm very pleased to say that Stephen's here to give us his overview and opinion as we walk around on what could be done at this property. I think this is a fantastic little project. It's a bit of a starter project for somebody who's got the enthusiasm to make something historic, give it that historic feel, that texture, and the color that it richly deserves. So, Stephen's here to give us a bit of a broader view on the how-to, how not to do, the do's and don'ts, and that kind of thing.

[00:00:56]>> Yeah, seems fair enough.

[00:00:58]>> Stephen's had all you had a chance to have a have a look around and you thought >> I've had a quick look, yeah, but um >> You're quite you're quite impressed with it, aren't you?

[00:01:04]>> I am. I think it's a nice flat. I could live here. It's got a fantastic view and there's a great big boat out there on the river. Look.

[00:01:10]>> Right, okay, we're going to start the tour.

[00:01:13]Uh we're going to kick off outside and we're going to have a wander around.

[00:01:15]>> Good.

[00:01:19]>> So, starting outside before we head upstairs, Stephen, first impressions?

[00:01:22]>> Lovely, very nice. Nice proportioned house. Got a nice door case. Look at this gate. I mean, this is pretty special, isn't it?

[00:01:29]I mean, it must have been pretty special when it was one residence, that's for sure.

[00:01:33]These are nice.

[00:01:34]>> Yeah, very nice.

[00:01:36]>> Couple of couple of urns.

[00:01:39]>> Very nice.

[00:01:40]>> uh it's pretty imposing, isn't it?

[00:01:42]>> Yeah, yeah.

[00:01:49]Um yeah, very nice.

[00:01:51]Nice proportion. And the one we're going to is >> Second floor.

[00:01:54]>> Second floor. So, that row of windows there. And all those four windows there belong to this flat, don't they? So, they're lateral flats on each of the floors.

[00:02:01]>> That's it. It's the entire second floor of this building.

[00:02:02]>> front of the building is very well maintained.

[00:02:06]Uh there's nothing there I can see will need any any works. There's some brick replacements here and repairs, but it's all in extremely good condition.

[00:02:14]Door case, no cracking on it. All nice nice lead work at the top.

[00:02:18]Um I think I would have put the letter boxes in the main center rather than the door, but hey, apart from all painted in black. But apart from that, >> You know it's number six.

[00:02:27]Right, let's head upstairs. I want to see your first impression.

[00:02:29]>> this, nice stonework and the welcoming arms of the um uh the entrance.

[00:02:34]Fine work.

[00:02:35]>> Excellent. Bearing in mind this is the first time I've seen this property. Um there's a a door down here at street level, um which is for the first floor flat. Staircase goes in, have their own staircase. So, this is either the the original staircase or it's a later staircase. But it's secondary to the one that's the other side of this wall. But this is a Victorian staircase here, and we've got a fantastic mahogany Victorian handrail with these decorative spindles.

[00:03:03]But I have to say that it's all in extremely good condition. It's beautiful. And the Victorians, they really knew how to actually put a handrail in. Look at the joinery on this. But curves round and then comes into this next section here. Now, as far as I can see, this is the Victorian and then this is the original Georgian.

[00:03:24]So, here we've gone back to what you would expect to find in the 1800s 1820s, which is square spindles. Rather nice narrower, if we can do a comparison, Simon, between the two. So, this is the wider Victorian with the decorative spindles.

[00:03:39]Victorian.

[00:03:40]And then this is Georgian with nice narrow spindles. Then little handrail here. Very very decorative and really nice pommel on the end of it.

[00:03:50]Very gentle swan's neck there. And and this rounder was all completely correct, but this isn't where the Victorians have kind of smudged it into the Georgian.

[00:04:00]So, here we have the heavy heavy Victorian, and here we have the elegant Georgian.

[00:04:06]Two have been spliced together. My mum rather unsatisfactorily, but that wouldn't stop me from buying this flat.

[00:04:14]Uh do you want to go up first?

[00:04:15]>> Yep.

[00:04:16]>> Okay.

[00:04:17]Probably have If you can just have a look at this staircase as we're going up, cuz the handrail is really nice.

[00:04:22]And then the handrail finishes at this point.

[00:04:27]And this has been put in to help when there's something going on here. So, this is where the next part of the handrail would have been, presumably with spindles here, replicating that.

[00:04:39]Um but it's been altered now for to make way for the flat that we're going to go into, which is just round the landing.

[00:04:46]And in the door on the left.

[00:04:48]>> There we go.

[00:04:49]>> That's it.

[00:04:50]>> Now, for the purposes of this video, I'm afraid you've got me behind the camera, because Leo, our trusty cameraman, is on holiday. How dare he? Um so, I am But it's actually work It's worthwhile doing, because it just gives me the opportunity to get Steven's reaction to this place, and I can ask the questions about what could be done and how to do things, and hopefully he will agree or not.

[00:05:11]So, what do you think?

[00:05:12]>> Yeah, pretty good. I mean, the view out of the window, I have to say, is pretty amazing, cuz that looks out over Blackheath.

[00:05:18]So, you've got big sky, big skies. It's nice, cuz this this landing is only to this and the other flat. Staircase goes up to the floor upstairs.

[00:05:26]And then, um you've got a nice bathroom.

[00:05:28]I have to say, it's a nice bathroom.

[00:05:30]After coming from Aubrey Street, where there are no nothing there at all.

[00:05:33]But again, you've got a lot of fantastic view out of here.

[00:05:36]>> It's very bright, isn't it?

[00:05:37]>> It is, yeah. Very nice. And this is all serviceable, you know. Don't do anything to this. Just leave it all alone.

[00:05:43]It's all functional. It's all clean. It doesn't look like It looks like it's just been fitted in, actually. Yeah. And the whole flat is really presentable.

[00:05:49]>> So, I like that pocket door. I know it's a basic thing, but it's a nice >> helps, doesn't it? Yeah, well, I don't know. I mean, it depends when the conversion was done. But, it has a kind of scandi look about it. You know, there's a certain element here. You could go either way. You could make this a kind of modernist flat, or you could turn it into traditional kind of more of a Georgian >> Well, that's the I mean, for me, that's my That's the motivation because I think that with relative ease it's it's a blank canvas. I mean, they bless them, they don't They started doing some Well, renovation restoration works. I mean, putting a new kitchen, a new bathroom >> is all all new. So, I mean, this is all brand new. I mean, you know, that's been used, obviously, but Um everything is >> Yeah.

[00:06:33]>> You know, it's a good start. If you own this, this is this is pretty Yeah. I mean, everything's kind of serviceable.

[00:06:39]>> It's a good starting It's a good starting point for if you know, to do I mean, it's not like you can't move in and live with it. It's a very comfortable place to live whilst you're doing work. But, I I've just got this vision in my head when we go into the living the main living space of, you know, adding in a little bit of wainscoting, going darker with the colors cuz I think you can get away with it.

[00:06:56]>> Yeah, I think you could. If you look out the window, you've got such an enormous amount of light and that view. I mean, it's fantastic. You can see the Millennium Dome over there. That's on this side of the river.

[00:07:06]And then, if you look along this >> Do you realize we're showing our age now because we're still calling it the Millennium Dome. It's the O2.

[00:07:13]>> It's the O2. The O2. And then, over there is Canary Wharf. And we were just saying earlier on that we remember seeing it not too long ago when the Canary Wharf Tower was the only building over there. And now, look at it. It's really grown into kind of >> 30 years.

[00:07:26]>> Yeah, 30 years. A huge metropolis.

[00:07:28]>> The views are spectacular, aren't they?

[00:07:30]>> Well, they are. You can see some very fine Georgian houses from up here. And it drops away at the end of the garden.

[00:07:35]So, we're on a kind of plateau at the top here. And all the buildings are on the same level. So, we're not dropping the land away. and it runs down the hill in that direction.

[00:07:45]>> That's Hyde Vale, I think, down there, isn't it?

[00:07:47]>> Fantastic.

[00:07:47]>> Oh, is that Hyde Vale? No.

[00:07:48]>> And we just walked up Crookes Valley Road, didn't we? Which is this one here where all the trees are.

[00:07:51]>> No, that's Hyde Vale. Crookes Valley Road is the next one along.

[00:07:53]>> Oh, is it over there? Yeah, where that Georgian house is.

[00:07:56]>> Yeah.

[00:07:56]Lovely.

[00:07:57]>> Fantastic. I'm most impressed. But this is This is really serviceable, so you can come home, you could live, you could cook, you could entertain.

[00:08:05]Um and it doesn't really need anything done to it. I mean, you've got a cute little window in there, a little 1930s window in there, which I'm glad they've left with a little extractor in there.

[00:08:15]Obviously, that's seen better days. But um I'm glad they left that cuz it's quite cute.

[00:08:19]>> I think it's also important to mention the newly uh restored Sorry, in in fully integrated system >> a new new boiler here, so we've got we've got the Tempest. Um so, there you go. Really good hot water um system.

[00:08:34]>> Pressure cylinder, isn't it?

[00:08:35]>> Yeah, and it's all all new plumbed in and this is the heat race area. So, this is your heating system here for your central heating and this is your hot water system here for your hot water.

[00:08:47]>> Mhm.

[00:08:47]>> Um but it's all new, it's all been plumbed in nicely. Everything Everything looks fine. It's got good pressure on it. All the pipework is new.

[00:08:54]>> Huge amount of storage as well above.

[00:08:56]>> Yeah, huge amount of storage. And I was quite surprised with that cuz it's got such tall such tall ceiling. That's the expansion vessel up there.

[00:09:04]So, vessel with a pestle.

[00:09:06]>> [laughter] >> So feeble. Um this is the sliding door which I showed you. But the thing is, you've got lots of wall space here to put art on and just to create the image.

[00:09:15]And I think sometimes with these blank spaces, these blank canvases, is how you dress the wall and put the paintings on it. You can turn it one way or the other. As I say, you can go modernist or you can go traditional. It wouldn't take much actually to put a really nice big portrait of George the Third on the wall. Um but no, I mean, it's all it's all here. This used to be the the door.

[00:09:35]It's had a bit of reconfiguration, well, quite a lot of reconfiguration. This is box that they've put in here on the landing.

[00:09:43]Uh the entrance, this has got your gas pipes, so you've got a gas supply, electricity supply.

[00:09:48]Um looks like the gas has been tapped off actually cuz it doesn't look like you would normally have a meter sitting in there. It's It's been closed off. So, I think this is purely electric with a new electric RCD system in it. So, that's all.

[00:10:01]>> It's been looked after, isn't it?

[00:10:02]>> Yeah. Yeah. It has. And it's all been maintained nicely.

[00:10:06]>> Just cosmetic, really.

[00:10:07]>> Yeah. The um we've got a different level in floors here and the floor looks like it's running from front to back slightly. That one in here is running in a slightly different direction, but that shows the age of the building as I say.

[00:10:19]So, it's 18 19 20 200 and 250 years old or whatever it is. It's 220 years old.

[00:10:26]>> Yeah. This is the water room. This is the >> It's nice. Well, I think when you come in you've got a fantastic sense of light because you've got these three nice windows.

[00:10:34]And you again you've got this fantastic view. And being up high, um you're almost up in the canopy of the trees up at this stage. When you look out this window here you've just got complete greenery. I mean, it's it's quite nice. But, my it's a This for me This is the room. This is the room that I mean, you It's It does everything for me. It's got volume. It's got It's got scale. Um and so, I think it's just It's just a case of just making more of just making more of a feature of the room. It's still here.

[00:11:03]There are some odd things going on. I had to say, I mean, the way the sockets are set into the skirting is something you wouldn't do cuz you wouldn't normally hack into a skirting to make a way for a socket. The skirting's got more important than an electric socket.

[00:11:15]So, you'd have to address that.

[00:11:16]Everything looks in quite good condition. I've looked out the window and the next adjacent building as well in the terrace has also got a bay on it.

[00:11:23]And they seem to have internal shutters on the next floor down, um which have inset panels with a bit of architrave around them. Uh they don't seem to doesn't seem to be any panels in the adjacent room of the other bay. So, I don't know if you're sure if there ever any um any shutters here. It would benefit Well, it would benefit from having shutters.

[00:11:44]>> Yeah, I mean you you have you were doing some measuring earlier. You could actually get You could go and find some reclaimed shutters >> Yeah, I I haven't got my tape measure. I was doing it with your tripod. That distance we have there is probably is the same distance between your glazing bar and your your um side rail on the So, you'd have one shutter and half a shutter folded into a box which would come out to here.

[00:12:05]You'd have to work out how you get the shutters to actually work in relationship to the bottom panel. Um you might even consider having a a rising shutter that you could put in here that would work. The only reason that you would have shutters, there's nobody overlooking you. I mean, you've got perfect privacy.

[00:12:19]Um unless you want to run around with anything on where those people can actually see you.

[00:12:24]>> Hiya.

[00:12:25]>> Yeah. Hiya, we're okay. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:12:28]Um You've got >> curtain rail up here, which is fine. And you can have a big kind of sweeping curtain. But I suppose for me the main thing would be during the winter because we're facing north here, whether you're going to get harsh weather conditions coming in on this elevation when you actually need something like shutters to just to kind of block out the the cold winter nights and make this room more cozy.

[00:12:51]So, um So, there's the opportunity. I I think the opportunity is there to add to it.

[00:12:57]You obviously wouldn't There's nothing to take away, but you would put out two by putting some form of shutters in there to work quite nicely, which would then be a feature. But you've got a nice bit of expansive curved wall here. So, we've got a curve here. The windows are square and flat and flush, but the curve is in in the room and you can see from the top of the window head here where the curve is in the room, but not on the windows.

[00:13:20]So, very nice. And this is a flat roof above here because next door um the bay window cuz we're on the second floor, the bay window only goes up as far as this, and it looks like next door have actually got this as a as an open space.

[00:13:33]Um skirting board and fireplace and doors.

[00:13:37]They look original. Where are we with this?

[00:13:39]>> Yeah, I think I think the I think all the doors are original to the to the to the build. They might be I think it's probably had to be honest. I think it's had a Victorian makeover.

[00:13:49]Um so they've put in a picture rail.

[00:13:51]There's no cornicing anywhere in the flat. Um so I think the Victorians, at some stage, have put in maybe in the 1860s have put in a picture rail.

[00:14:02]And the doors are of a Victorian configuration rather than Georgian. This one is as had the bottom of the door cut off because they've raised this floor. There's a step coming into the room here. And when I've checked underneath, I wanted to check see whether it's got its original floorboards. And yes, it has got its original floorboards, and yes, they are wide. Um between 6 and 8 in wide. But the problem is the last thing you would want to have in this room on this floor is a bare floorboard.

[00:14:34]Um mainly because the noise will transmit downstairs. Um and I it could cause issues. It looks like the people here, we know they have Aubrey Street, which had a lot of books.

[00:14:45]And it looks like there's been a bookshelf along there. So they've carpeted up to the um uh the bookshelf. And then what they've done for um to make this room more soundproof is that they've put a a floor in here, you'll see. So they've got a plywood they've put a plywood floor in, which is here.

[00:15:04]So here you've got your floorboards underneath here somewhere.

[00:15:08]Yeah, so those are your floorboards.

[00:15:09]Nice wide boards. Nice wide Georgian boards. I mean, they're fantastic. It's just that the noise for downstairs would be unbearable. Just walking around in your slippers would irritate someone, I'm sure, and you're going to have problems.

[00:15:21]So that's why this floor has been put down.

[00:15:24]So, we've got a 12-mil ply floor, and then we've got this membrane that's been put down here as a um to soften the carpet and also probably to act as a soundproofer as well.

[00:15:35]Um but it's all been nicely done.

[00:15:36]Obviously, it's been done up to the bookshelf. You can see on the wall where the bookshelves were here.

[00:15:41]Um and it's had a new light switch put in.

[00:15:46]Yep.

[00:15:48]>> Fireplace?

[00:15:49]>> Fireplace is probably not bonus as far as I'm concerned cuz the proportions are all wrong.

[00:15:53]Um normally, you would um normally, you would have this part here, which is the plinth, and this is the pediment. This is the plinth. You would normally have that same height as the um as the skirting or slightly higher.

[00:16:06]And then you would have your what would be the column in kind of classical terms here.

[00:16:12]And then you would have this section running across bridging the two, and the mantel would normally be slightly higher.

[00:16:17]>> But I think that's painted marble, am I right?

[00:16:20]>> I'm not sure, really. I mean, it's great slabs and stuff. I mean, it is black underneath, um and it could be slate. I think it's probably painted slate.

[00:16:28]>> Okay.

[00:16:29]>> And um I think it's got a It would be nice if there was a fireplace behind there. One would expect to see a curved Victorian insert because this is Victorian, not Georgian.

[00:16:40]Um it's just proportions are slightly wrong, but I think if you were to get back to the slate and it feels like slate. It's cold enough to be slate, and it feels, you know, the density of it feels as though it's it's not timber.

[00:16:53]That's that's stone.

[00:16:55]So, I imagine that's going to be black slate.

[00:16:59]It would look nice if it was all kind of cleaned up.

[00:17:01]Um skirting is all nicely got curved skirting running around here on all the on the bay, which would nicely be just cleaned up, freshened up, and painted. So, it's a painting exercise here. Would I keep the picture rail? I don't know whether that would compromise things or not, but um I think by painting the two different colors, it's kind of brought the ceiling down lower.

[00:17:23]But, you really want to have a big mirror on here or a big picture painting as a kind of feature on in the room.

[00:17:30]But, what a lovely room to sit in. And it is so quiet.

[00:17:33]>> It is, isn't it?

[00:17:34]>> You know, there's no ambient noise here.

[00:17:35]It's all There's no traffic, and that's what's so important. There's traffic on the front, which is um the Blackheath traffic, which we look at in the bedroom at the moment.

[00:17:45]And you can minimize that by having secondary glazing or shutters. But, here there is no traffic, and I think that's the joy of this room is the fact that what you're looking at here, what you're hearing, is pretty much what the Georgians would have heard when this was first built. I mean, obviously you've got all this new development around here, but the view across here with the Georgian house on the top of the um Cruse Hill there, up here there.

[00:18:08]Um this is all very rural, very pleasant.

[00:18:12]But, it's just quiet. All I All we can hear at the moment is You can hear um birdsong and and the trees right.

[00:18:21]There's no There's no noise of habitation or traffic, as I say.

[00:18:25]So, that This room would make me happy.

[00:18:31]Um doorways have been changed.

[00:18:32]Obviously, the the the doorway for this room originally, I think, would have been here.

[00:18:37]So, you come into this room from here.

[00:18:40]And you can't return it back to that because you've got your your electric and your old gas supply. Um the gas supply carries on upstairs, so it comes up here diagonally across and then in this pipe to service upstairs.

[00:18:57]So, you can't remove that, but the original door would have opened into the room at this point.

[00:19:02]And then, once you're in this room, this room this door would come off it. This is the original frame that we've got here.

[00:19:09]>> So, I think this this This would have been a bedroom when it was a house, or would you think it would have been a reception? We're on the second floor, so it would have been bedrooms, I guess, wouldn't it?

[00:19:17]>> I think it probably would have been bedrooms at this level. And also, you haven't got any decoration in here, so I think the floor below, because it's got the shutters with the architrave on it, I think that would have been a reception room.

[00:19:29]And this would have been bedrooms. Whether you would have had service domestics living up here or not, I don't know. But we are in a probably next floor up. If you went up there, you'd probably be in the domestic >> domestic area.

[00:19:41]>> The staircase certainly looks like it does when you come up, cuz the handrail changes.

[00:19:45]And then you've got the Victorian doors.

[00:19:47]So, you've got this little room here, which is quite sweet.

[00:19:52]And for those that have watched our Instagram lugging around a great big panel on the tube train, this is basically what it is. It's one of these panels here that we have underneath the window.

[00:20:03]Yeah.

[00:20:05]And these sometimes, if these were further forward and we had double sets of pulleys in here and sash cords, then you would know you've got kind of rising box sash shutters, but there's no evidence of that. You've got enough depth here for internal shutters of some description, so they could be put in.

[00:20:21]But this is the view I was talking about just now. This is Blackheath over here. So, you've got great big expanse of sky.

[00:20:28]>> Lovely. Very lovely.

[00:20:30]>> Nice.

[00:20:33]And what you can hear outside there are the parakeets.

[00:20:35]>> Mhm.

[00:20:36]>> Um again, this floor here, I was looking at this This There was another set of bookshelves here. And here, we've got again, we've got plywood on the floorboards.

[00:20:47]And we've got this um high-performance underlay.

[00:20:52]And then we've got a picture of people dancing on it.

[00:20:56]I don't expect anybody to do that on this floor. Um but then you've got the thick carpet, so it's well insulated for the people below, and it also acts as a sound barrier from the noise migrating from the floor below up. New radiators, all serviceable. All the Looks like they done a nice job with the central heating because obviously they've managed to get underneath this plywood and get into all the existing pipework. So, that's something you don't have to worry about.

[00:21:23]Um what I'm really particularly taken with, I have to say, these little catches. Have you seen them? Yeah. Um because they're ever so sweet. They're like little It's got a button in the middle of the in the middle of the pull.

[00:21:33]>> What are they then? They're not on the >> Those are clean.

[00:21:36]>> I think. Victorian. Oh.

[00:21:38]They're ever so simple. Work so well.

[00:21:41]Um yeah, so [snorts] good storage.

[00:21:44]Good storage in there. And this is all as you'd expect to find it.

[00:21:50]Plenty of Plenty of hanging space. And also, it goes right the way up there, so you've got shelves you can put stuff up on the top.

[00:21:55]>> And I love that fireplace around. That is >> This is nice. This hasn't been touched.

[00:21:59]This is I'm going to sit down for this one.

[00:22:02]Um Yeah, >> [laughter] >> it's kind of The um the surround is uh Georgian uh original to its build. It's had a little bit of bodging on the right hand side there. You can see um there's kind of a needs This needs to be cut off here. I don't know what's happened here.

[00:22:18]I think this is the This is This is very typical of the worst type of filling or repair that somebody does. How can anybody consider that that is any form of repair? It wouldn't take much to run a Stanley knife blade down there and in this direction or a multi-tool, which is an oscillating blade. The noise will irritate your neighbors and yourself.

[00:22:39]Um but you could just cut that out quite easily and sand it and paint it. Or you could take the paint off of this and underneath here, you've probably got stone. It might be code stone, which would be a kind of um sandy color, or it's um it might actually be stone which has been carved.

[00:22:57]So, nice nice This is all correct. It's got a strange lip underneath there. I don't know what that's is all about.

[00:23:02]Normally you find that on cast iron.

[00:23:04]So it might have might have a cast iron mantle on this.

[00:23:07]Um this feels actually this could be this could be cast iron.

[00:23:12]Could be.

[00:23:13]>> And the fire this the fireplace itself Victorian?

[00:23:16]>> This is crazy. Yeah, this has been put in afterwards.

[00:23:19]Um and this is very much like when you see the kind of Westerns early Westerns cowboy style. It's almost like New Orleans fireplace. I mean crazy. Just crazy. Like let's make a fireplace and instead of having everything angular and square like the Georgians had with a little kind of area both sides to put your kettle and a hot plate. They go for this crazy crazy circular. Um let's make it a complete circle. You know, so I'm sure that if you carried this on it would make perfect circle. And then it should have a circular place. It's got a steel place in there so it's been closed off. So you won't wouldn't be able to have this as a as a fire.

[00:23:54]Um it doesn't have any fortunately doesn't have any gas supply which is good.

[00:23:58]Um but and you have but you might have a a stone hearth underneath here if you looked for it but then you'd have a dip where the the board is sitting over the top. So I think it's probably best left as it is and just have it as a kind of feature fireplace. But I I have a sneaky feeling this might be cast iron, you know?

[00:24:15]>> And nice views from the uh >> Yeah, I've got a feeling that I've got a feeling that this is hollow and that this is cast iron.

[00:24:20]>> Oh really?

[00:24:21]>> So yeah, look. If you took that off there um that that looks like metal.

[00:24:26]So I think it's a cast iron fireplace.

[00:24:29]Just kind of paint surface here. I think it's just metal. I think it's a metal.

[00:24:33]To my mind makes it even more important even more interesting.

[00:24:36]>> Good.

[00:24:37]>> Yeah, still don't know what this is here.

[00:24:40]It's not going to be part of the casting.

[00:24:42]Um great windows. Needs to be painted.

[00:24:45]Needs to be overhaul.

[00:24:47]Uh you could put secondary glazing in here quite easily if you wanted to to stop the noise but that's me >> It's not that noisy though.

[00:24:52]>> It isn't that noisy.

[00:24:54]Um the only thing you might want to do is consider either shutters or secondary glazing Um for keeping the drafts during the during the winter. But um It's very serviceable. It's nice. You know, it's like you know, you could quite if you wanted a retreat and you wanted somewhere where you're on top of the hill. You're not going to worry about flooding up here, that's for sure.

[00:25:16]And you got views cuz you can see right the way over to the um that piece of Kent Hills over there or the Surrey Hills.

[00:25:25]Uh that that way and then you can see >> down towards Gravesend, that's >> Yeah, all right. Okay, so we're looking out towards Gravesend. So that's almost out to coast at that direction.

[00:25:33]And in this direction over here, you're looking over to Essex.

[00:25:36]>> Yeah.

[00:25:36]>> So quite you know, fantastic view from being right on top of the hill.

[00:25:40]No, I like it. I like it. I think it's good. I think it's good.

[00:25:43]>> Wait, I'll start again.

[00:25:45]Right then, that's the end of the tour.

[00:25:47]That was a little 20-minute meander with Steven to give you a sense of what could or couldn't be done. Hopefully you've enjoyed it. If you have got any questions, please email me directly [email protected].

[00:26:00]This is a two-bedroom second-floor flat, a Grade II listed building. It's up for sale for £595,000.

[00:26:06]If you are interested in something that is as I said in the intro, a potentially a nice easy starter restoration project, this I hope could be the one. So if you do like it, please get in touch.

[00:26:19]>> Yeah, I think it makes a lovely home.

[00:26:21]Very nice. Yeah, very quiet, very peaceful.

[00:26:23]>> Right then, that's it. We're signing off now. We're going to go and have a pint, I think.

[00:26:26]>> we need it. It's too hot.

[00:26:28]>> [laughter] >> And we're right on top of the hill.

[00:26:30]>> So thanks for joining us. Appreciate your time. Until the next tour, take care.

[00:26:35]>> See you then. Bye.