St. Ann’s Crescent, Wandsworth, SW18

St. Ann's Crescent, in Wandsworth, is the address for this maisonette, which occupies the ground and first floors of a five-storey Victorian mansion block, with painted stucco at street level over brick, an encaustic-tiled path and original fireplaces inside. Unusually for a flat it has the feel of a house, with its own staircase and its bedrooms on a separate floor from the reception rooms, and it extends to 1,327 sq ft. There are three bedrooms and two bathrooms, together with two reception rooms. The decoration is contemporary and minimal, in greige and charcoal: smoked oak boards, flush doors of full height on concealed hinges and recessed downlights. Nothing is fussy and nothing is accidental.

Entrance hall 1.45m x 2.68m (4'9" x 8'10")

The stripped-pine staircase begins in the hall and carries the eye up to the bedroom floor; smoked oak boards run underfoot.

Sitting room 3.78m x 4.92m (12'5" x 16'2")

A bay window shapes the front of the room, and the focus is a wood-burning stove set in a painted surround of timber. A low grey modular sofa stands on a plain charcoal wool rug beside a marble coffee table, and sheer white blinds filter the west light in the afternoon, when the room is at its best.

Dining room 3.39m x 4.55m (11'1" x 14'11")

Double doors connect this room to the sitting room, so that the two can be joined for a party or closed to make a quiet space for dinner, and a sculptural white globe pendant hangs above the table.

Kitchen 3.79m x 6.21m (12'5" x 20'4")

Matt black handleless units and a pale concrete worktop make a strong, graphic kitchen, and a skylight above it softens the effect with natural daylight. It is a long room that suits a family who like to cook.

Principal bedroom 3.84m x 4.18m (12'7" x 13'9")

A sash window lights the principal bedroom, upstairs, which is a calm, well-proportioned room.

Bedroom 2 3.21m x 3.80m (10'6" x 12'6")

The second bedroom has fitted wardrobes and is a good double, with the flush doors of the storage keeping the wall clean.

Bedroom 3 2.76m x 2.97m (9'1" x 9'9")

A third bedroom, also with fitted wardrobes, is small and square, and works equally well as a nursery or a study.

Bathroom 2.10m x 2.90m (6'11" x 9'6")

A walk-in shower is fitted in the bathroom, with microcement on the walls and floor and a floating concrete basin.

En-suite 1.76m x 2.15m (5'9" x 7'1")

A freestanding bath is the one indulgence in the en-suite, set below a wall-hung walnut vanity with a white top.

No private outside space is attached to the maisonette, but residents' permit parking is available on the street, and the west aspect keeps the reception rooms warm into the evening.

Wandsworth Town and Wandsworth Common are both railway stations, and a good deal of the town's older character survives around them. Wandsworth Common crowns East Hill above the river, while King George's Park follows the River Wandle upstream behind the shopping centre on Wandsworth High Street. The town appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wandesorde, and its Quaker Meeting House of 1778 is the oldest surviving one in Greater London.