Ashen Grove, Southfields, SW19

Ashen Grove in Southfields is a street of red brick terraces with white-painted timber, and this one has a loft conversion over its two floors, 1,257 sq ft in all, giving four bedrooms, two bathrooms and just the one reception room. The house is clean and tidy but last decorated twenty to forty years ago, and the dusky blue walls, pine woodwork, beige carpets and flush doors make the scope to update plain. Picture rails and leaded light windows are the period details worth keeping, and there is potential to extend (STPP) at the back.

Hall 1.88m x 3.06m (6'2" x 10'0")

A cloaks cupboard stands in the hall, beside the dark-stained staircase with its square newel posts. Beige carpet starts here.

Sitting room 3.85m x 5.77m (12'8" x 18'11")

A wood-burning stove and a fireplace with a period surround give the sitting room a focus. The owner's own brown leather recliner and sofa, a patterned rug, a glass-topped coffee table and net curtains are not part of the sale, and the room is in need of modernisation.

Kitchen 3.32m x 4.62m (10'11" x 15'2")

Cream units, a speckled worktop in laminate and a tiled splashback in a pattern fill the kitchen, which has a breakfast bar and vinyl flooring, and a brass three-arm light overhead. A new kitchen would transform it.

Cloakroom 1.10m x 1.92m (3'7" x 6'4")

The ground floor ends with a cloakroom, small but fitted with a basin and wc.

Principal bedroom 4.27m x 4.35m (14'0" x 14'3")

Fitted wardrobes line the principal bedroom, which has a padded peach headboard in its current arrangement and space for a king-size bed in the far corner.

Bedroom 2 2.63m x 3.17m (8'8" x 10'5")

Bedroom 2 has more wardrobes, fitted, and a dark wood bed with a matching wardrobe at present.

Bedroom 3 2.59m x 3.66m (8'6" x 12'0")

A built-in desk occupies Bedroom 3, which is currently arranged with a pine bed frame and an oval mirror.

Bedroom 4 3.27m x 2.92m (10'9" x 9'7")

The loft bedroom has a sash window and a sloping ceiling on the front side, with its window in the rear dormer. It is currently arranged with a brass-effect bedstead.

Bathroom 2.23m x 3.05m (7'4" x 10'0")

Herringbone tiles in the first-floor bathroom accompany a bath with no separate shower and a pink pedestal basin, with no window and an extractor fan.

En-suite 1.69m x 2.75m (5'7" x 9'0")

The en-suite is tiled in herringbone as well, with a shower enclosure, a pine vanity unit and an obscured-glass window.

The garden faces south, and the plot offers potential to extend (STPP). Nothing in the way of parking goes with the house.

Southfields station is on a branch of the District line, in fare zone 3, and is the stop for the tennis championships, a walk of 10 to 15 minutes from the grounds. King George's Park has public tennis courts, and Coronation Gardens is a small park laid out for King Edward VII's coronation in 1902. The lake and athletics track at Wimbledon Park are within reach of the house. The grid of streets was approved in 1891 and complete by 1906.