Balfour Road, Islington, N5

Set on quiet Balfour Road, a short walk from both the picturesque Clissold Park and the ever popular Highbury Barn, is this wonderfully presented and sizeable 4 bedroom, double reception mid-terrace family home offering circa 2,600 ft² of internal living space. Skilfully preserving numerous original features throughout too numerous to fully list, but including original fireplaces, window shutters, ceiling roses and the increasingly rare original stained glass sash windows, this home is not without a deft contemporary touch to give the best of modern living, the most striking of which is the ground floor which features an impressive reception room which leads on (via the original double doors to a dining room and onto a wonderfully modern architecturally designed kitchen replete with marble worktops which contrasts with the rustic herringbone pattern brick floor and exposed brickwork walls. The kitchen further benefits from a continuous skylight which runs the length of the kitchen and which gives an abundance of natural light to the entire space, with bi-fold doors opening onto a secluded and mature garden.

To the first floor are two good sized bedrooms, again with original features throughout, with the the larger of the two bedrooms facing the front aspect. There is a full-size family bathroom with a roll-top bath, and has been tastefully decorated throughout. Furthermore this floor also has a purpose built laundry-room.

Onto the second floor and there is a strikingly decorated en-suite bathroom with again a roll top bath, Victorian style wash basin and spacious walk-in shower - the entire room having been laid with a wonderfully warm terracotta floor. The attached master bedroom positioned towards the front of the house benefiting from a sizeable walk-in wardrobe with California closet style storage and hanging space.

Finally, the third floor boasts a spacious large double bedroom with built in storage in the eaves and an en-suite stylish modern bathroom.

The house also benefits from a sizeable cellar the size of the footprint of the front area of the house which can provide valuable and much needed storage

Quite simply a beautiful family home, melding modern decorative panache with a sympathetic eye towards the architectural features of yesteryear.

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