Bickersteth Road, Tooting, SW17

This second-floor flat on Bickersteth Road in Tooting is a clean, tidy and well-proportioned home that has not been touched in twenty years or more. It occupies the upper level of a converted Victorian house of yellow stock brick, with sash windows and an encaustic-tiled path leading up to the front door. The accommodation covers 1,034 sq ft and is arranged as a sitting room, a very large kitchen, a bathroom and two bedrooms. Pastel pink and grey run through the rooms, and the flat is in need of modernisation, which offers a purchaser the chance to put their own stamp on a good-sized layout.

Entrance hall 1.27m x 2.78m (4'2" x 9'1")

A tiled hall with room for a console table and coats. The plain walls are painted white and the ceiling carries a simple fitting.

Sitting room 4.83m x 4.68m (15'10" x 15'4")

A period fireplace with an open fire, its surround of painted timber, anchors the sitting room, which is a fine space, and a balcony gives it an outlook over the street. The owner's own brown leather sofa and recliner, dark wood TV cabinet and pelmeted curtains show how comfortably it has been lived in. Light oak-effect laminate covers the floor, and there is scope to update the finishes to a more current taste.

Kitchen 4.27m x 5.63m (14'0" x 18'6")

The kitchen is unusually big for a flat of this kind and has a central island. Cabinets in light oak-effect finish with a laminate worktop are practical and clean, though ready for replacement, and there is ample room for a dining table in addition to the island.

Principal bedroom 4.20m x 4.73m (13'9" x 15'6")

The principal bedroom holds a run of fitted wardrobes and still leaves space for a large bed and bedside furniture. A fan light hangs from the ceiling, and the walls are pale in tone.

Bedroom 2 2.49m x 3.41m (8'2" x 11'2")

The second bedroom is smaller and also has fitted wardrobes. It will take a single or small double, or serve as a study.

Bathroom 1.72m x 2.58m (5'8" x 8'6")

The bathroom is compact and has a freestanding bath. The sanitaryware and tiling are dated and the room would benefit from a full refit.

Beyond the balcony there is no outdoor space of the flat's own, and no parking comes with it. High up in the converted house, the rooms take plenty of light from the sash windows, and the layout leaves scope to reconfigure the kitchen and sitting room into a more open arrangement, subject to the usual consents.

Tooting Bec and Tooting Broadway are the Northern line stations at either end of the hill that slopes down Tooting High Street, which follows the line of a Roman road. Tooting Bec Common and Tooting Graveney Common together form a large open area, and the lido on Tooting Bec Common opened in 1906. Totterdown Fields, a conservation area since 1978, lies close by and was the first London County Council cottage estate.