m+ property Homes of the Week in the City, Country and Coast for £900,000
Same budget, three completely different ways to spend it. This week, under £900,000 buys a garden apartment with its own studio in Willesden Green, a beautifully reworked cottage in the Hampshire Downs, or a Grade II-listed Georgian townhouse with sea views and a separate annexe in Deal.
City: Chatsworth Road, Willesden Green, London NW2
Guide Price £900,000 | 3 bedrooms
A three-bedroom garden apartment in northwest London for £900,000 immediately gets our attention. This one occupies the ground floor of a handsome Edwardian red-brick conversion on Chatsworth Road, putting you in the heart of Willesden Green and within easy reach of neighbouring Queen’s Park and Kensal Rise.
Inside, the bespoke kitchen has a breakfast bar and opens onto a dining area with room for a proper table, while the adjoining reception space has two sets of concertina doors leading straight onto the garden. At the front are two generous double bedrooms and two bathrooms, one en suite, plus a smaller third bedroom with a skylight that would work well as a nursery, study or occasional guest room. Underfloor heating runs throughout.
The garden is the real bonus. Private and secluded, it opens directly from the living space with plenty of room for outdoor dining, while a fully insulated and powered studio at the rear provides genuinely useful extra space. Home office, playroom or teenage den in years to come, it’s the sort of addition that makes a London flat feel much more like a house.
Country: Church View, Tangley, Hampshire
Guide Price £895,000 | 3 bedrooms
If the move-to-the-country fantasy involves period character, beautiful interiors and a good pub at the end of a woodland walk, Church View makes a persuasive case. Two 19th-century flint cottages and a former school hall have been brought together to create this three-bedroom home in Tangley, surrounded by the North Hampshire Downs.
The interiors are particularly good. Solid oak floorboards run through the L-shaped living space into a Shaker-style kitchen with marble worktops, a dark Lacanche range and original ecclesiastical windows. A reclaimed haberdasher’s unit has been repurposed as the kitchen island, while the adjoining dining area has a wood burner set into a brick fireplace. Upstairs are three bedrooms and a bathroom with a freestanding roll-top bath and brass fittings.
Outside, the quarter-acre garden is mostly laid to lawn, with a terrace built around a fire pit for summer evenings. A gate leads directly into the neighbouring churchyard, from where a short woodland walk takes you to The Fox Inn. Andover station is around a 10-minute drive away, with trains into London Waterloo taking just over an hour, making this one work for more than just the weekend.
Coast: Beach Street, Deal, Kent
Guide Price £895,000 | 4 bedrooms
Directly opposite Deal Pier, this Grade II-listed Georgian townhouse has all the ingredients of a very good seaside move. Built in 1726, it has uninterrupted sea views, the town centre less than a minute away and, unusually, a separate one-bedroom cottage annexe tucked behind the main house.
Inside, the house has retained plenty of character, including exposed beams, sash windows and brick fireplaces. The ground floor has a spacious living and dining room with a log burner, leading through to the kitchen, while upstairs the principal bedroom has its own fireplace, en-suite bathroom and balcony access. Another bedroom has views directly over the pier and sea, with two further doubles on the second floor. There’s also a substantial brick cellar with potential for conversion, subject to the relevant permissions.
The annexe is the real extra here, with its own kitchen, living room and en-suite bedroom beneath a vaulted, beamed ceiling. It could work brilliantly for visiting family, older children or as separate accommodation. And with Deal’s shops, restaurants, Saturday market, beach and historic pier all on the doorstep, plus direct trains to London, there’s very little need to get in the car once you’re here.