Property Of The Week

TOWNHOUSE WITH ACCESS TO MAGICAL SQUARE GARDEN ON THE EXCLUSIVE HYDE PARK ESTATE COMES TO THE MARKET   

A beautifully presented townhouse with direct access to one of London's most cherished private garden squares has come on the market. The six-bedroom, six- bathroom property, which is spread over a vast 4,040 sq. ft., would make an ideal family home. The house is being marketed by Kay & Co and is priced at £6,250,000.

Designed by George Gutch is the 1840s, Gloucester Square's private garden is among the most attractive of its type in this part of London. The enclosure offers an oasis of calm with manicured lawns, rose beds and substantial mature plane trees.

Gloucester Square is part of the exclusive Hyde Park Estate, a collection of squares and crescents that form one of the most affluent parts of the capital that has attracted an array of luminaries over the years.

Writer Lady Violet Bonham Carter – grandmother of actress Helena Bonham Carter – and 'the Father of the Railways', Robert Stephenson, both lived on Gloucester Square while the likes of Tony Blair and Michael Caine have owned homes on the estate.

Thanks to its impressive open-plan kitchen/dining/sitting room on the ground floor, the townhouse is ideally equipped to entertain. It also features an expansive and elegant first-floor drawing room with high ceilings and views over the garden square, a master suite occupying the entire second floor and five further en suite bedrooms. The property also has an integral garage.

With Hyde Park just moments away, Connaught Village on the doorstep and both Paddington and Lancaster Gate stations within 0.4 miles, the property could not be better located.

With the arrival of  Crossrail  at Paddington in December and the forthcoming development of the Whiteleys shopping centre in nearby Bayswater, the area is one of the capital's property current hotspots.

Martin Bikhit, Managing Director at Kay & Co comments: 'Gloucester Square is one of the most attractive private enclosure spaces in London and properties of this size and presented in such excellent condition at this address come on the market extremely rarely.

'With its attractive ground-floor living space, this townhouse is the ideal family home with excellent local shopping and transport links.

‘I envisage the property being particularly attractive to someone needing fast and efficient links to Heathrow – when Crossrail opens at Paddington in December, the journey time to the airport will be a mere 22 minutes.'

The house is priced at £6,250,000 and includes a share of the freehold. For further information contact the selling agents Kay & Co (0207 262 2030 / www.kayandco.com)