4 bed house for sale in Bartholomew Road, Kentish Town, NW5 (ref: 515291)

A VICTORIAN family home benefitting from a private 'town' garden and situated round the corner from CAMDEN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS as well as Kentish Town High Road.
The High Road offers a wide variety of shops, cafes and restaurants as well as tube and rail links from Kentish Town into The City/West End as well as out of London.

NB. The pictures are from before the house was Let so may not present a 100% accurate depiction of condition.

The owner has a connection to Compass Residential.

Kentish Town Road, the main shopping street, has a mix of independents shops, cafés and restaurants, along with chain stores and restaurants.
The highlights are Owl Bookshop which holds events including talks by authors; landmark former ladieswear shop Blustons, renowned for its listed Thirties shopfront and now being run as a vintage clothing store by Octavia Foundation; Phoenicia Mediterranean food hall, and Harry’s Fine Foods, a butcher and fishmonger.

Kentish Towners seem very keen on the natural; there is Earth Natural Foods, which describes itself as “north London’s leading independent natural food retailer”; Naturally, which calls itself an “artisan store and delicatessen”, and Natural, a coffee lounge and natural food store. Doppio is a coffee shop with a difference — as well as selling coffee it sells coffee-making equipment and trains baristas.
Supermarkets include Co-op, Lidl and Sainsbury’s Local and the chain restaurants/cafés include Wahaca, Franco Manca and Gail’s.
Highgate Road has a concentration of oriental carpet shops; there are also branches of two Soho House brands — Chicken Shop and Pizza East.
The area’s best gastropub, The Bull & Last, is closed for refurbishment at the time of writing and expects to be up and running with the addition of B&B rooms by autumn 2019. Also in Highgate Road, the Southampton Arms pub specialises in ale and cider from small independent breweries.

The Fields Beneath is a vegan café under Kentish Town West railway station named after author Gillian Tindall’s history of Kentish Town, which is well worth a read.

Patron Cave à Manger is a Parisian-style brasserie in Fortess Road. The Pineapple pub in Leverton Street serves Thai food, and Ladies & Gentlemen is a cocktail bar tucked away in a former public loo at the junction of Highgate Road and Fortess Road.

At the southern end of Kentish Town Road, Italian restaurant Anima e Cuore is often booked up weeks in advance.

SCHOOLS
Parents are particularly keen on two primary schools — Kentish Town CofE in Islip Street and Eleanor Palmer in Lupton Street — and one comprehensive, The Camden School for Girls (ages 11 to 18, with boys in the sixth form) in Sandall Road, all of which are rated “outstanding”.
The other “outstanding” local state primary schools are: Torriano in Torriano Avenue; Holy Trinity & St Silas CofE in Clarence Way, and Gospel Oak in Mansfield Road.
There is a cluster of three comprehensive schools all judged to be “good” in Highgate Road: Parliament Hill (girls, ages 11 to 18); William Ellis (boys, ages 11 to 18) and La Sainte Union RC (girls, ages 11 to 18).
Acland Burghley School (co-ed, ages 11 to 18) in Burghley Road, also rated “good”, runs a consortium sixth form called LaSWAP.
Two private French bilingual schools attracting French families to Kentish Town are La Petite École Bilingue (co-ed, ages three to 11) in Vicars Road and Collège Français Bilingue de Londres (co-ed, ages five to 16) in Holmes Road.
There are two leading private schools in nearby Highgate: Highgate School (co-ed, ages three to 18) in North Road and Channing (girls ages four to 18) in The Bank off Highgate Hill.

NB. The seller has a connection to Compass Residential.

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