Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Architecture Wednesday: Morrish Road Loft

This one is for Carlos, because it’s in London, and Carlos  is nothing short of a full-fledged anglophile. It’s also for him because it’s the converted upper level of  a bakery. And as everyone who reads this blog knows, Carlos loves to bake. He considers himself a sort of MasterBaker™, and, if he could, he’d be MasterBaking™ morning noon and night. I hope you like it, baby, because it’s for sale for only $3.6 million USD!!!

This former bakery is large, with over 3,600 square feet with four bedrooms and a grand open plan great room with white tiled walls and original beamed ceiling retrofitted with skylights.

The loft is accessed via a communal staircase that leads to a private vestibule that opens to a bedroom to the left—an en suite space with access to a roof terrace via a set of “paddle steps”—or right, through a large timber sliding door to the living space. This great room extends over 40 feet long, with soaring timber-clad cathedral ceilings, exposed trusses with plywood floors and original cast-iron radiators set against walls of glazed Victorian tiles. Light pours in from a row of seven steel-framed Crittall windows and a series of skylights overhead. A mezzanine level bedroom with a dressing room is up a flight of open-tread timber stairs and is set behind a glazed wall. A shower room occupies one corner of the room.

The kitchen is on the north side of the home, semi-open to the main room, and is a full-on chef’s kitchen with high-end appliances, stainless steel cabinets and surfaces, and a marble floor.

There are two further bedrooms to the east of the plan, one with a large en suite double shower room with double sinks and slate tiling. The fourth bedroom has access to a second staircase that heads down to a street level exit.

The home, which sits on Morrish Road—a residential street—is a short walk from Brixton, a lively area known for its food and bar scene, the nearby Brixton Village, Market Row and Acre Lane are all highly recommended as is the newly opened is The Department Store, a grand renovated 1876 Bon Marche building that now houses collaborative workspaces, a Pure Vinyl record shop, a community Post Office and Canova Hall restaurant and bar. The green spaces of Rush Common and Brockwell Park are also nearby, with Brockwell Park featuring a lido with a 50-metre pool, an art deco pavilion, café, tennis courts and a walled garden.

And again, all yours for $3.6M; the perfect MasterBaker™ home.

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26 comments:

  1. Loves London too! But no bannisters on those stairs. Eeek!
    xoxo :-)

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  2. Very pretty. Nice layout. I could quibble with some of the furnishings and the color scheme, but not with those paintings. Less would make more of a statement. Very lovely.

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    1. I agree; less is more. The building itself, and the tiled walls, are enough of a statement.

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  3. Very nice. Totally unexpected interior, though. I was reading your description and when I found the pics, they made more sense. I love the loft. And black floors? Never thought I would.

    XOXO

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    1. I love the reuse of an old space, and the rustic modern urbanity of it all.

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  4. Wow! That's staircase is a killer, and a deal breaker.

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    1. Luckily, it's just to the rooftop, but yeah, I'd take that tumble.

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  5. I love it...except the kitchen...but overall love the old and urban feel to it. But huh....those stairs may need to be widened. Those, me and gin won't work. LOVE the loft bedroom...and a wall of windows always wins me over.

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    1. I think you drink your gin and sleep on the roof, and then in the morning, when you're sober, you crawl down the stairs!

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  6. I love a repurpose buildings-old factories, gas stations, car dealerships, bakeries...Love it...You know me and white but I can work with it...Those stairs will be a killer for my walker when I get older...No way in hell would those stairs pass code in the US-the steepness, no railings...All in all I love it...And Carlos can come over anytime to bake....

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    1. Those stairs in England are fine; in the US it's a no go!

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  7. I give up. I'm just going to accept the fact that I have zero taste when it comes to architecture. This one is a bit too busy, and I can envision death by staircase.

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    1. I will find one you love .... you LOVE ,,, and then I will stop posting!!!!

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  8. I do love the space, but the kitchen doesn’t seem to be in the same loft. Also, someone is going to die on those stairs!

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    1. I like the kitchen, but wish it was more open, and, yeah, those stairs. They look cool but they're a deathtrap. I'd be picking Carlos up off the floor every day!

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  9. Nah, not for me. Those stairs and that piddly little garden!

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    1. I can get by with the tiny rooftop but working those stairs might be an issue.

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  10. Looks wonderful

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    1. I always love an old space reimagined.

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  11. Neat space, but too many design flaws, bedrooms that can only be entered through other bedrooms, a giant wasted space of a master bath, pass

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    1. I like the quirks, though the master bath does seem lifted from an entirely different home.

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  12. In relation to insulation, I don't like the look of that upper floor ceiling. Would the place be warm enough in a chilly London winter?

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    1. Maybe the house comes with its own sweater collection??

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  13. I think this is a big no for me all the way around. Not sure there's anything I like about it. Especially both sets of stairs. The first floor set because I can't walk up stairs I can see through! And the second set because of no railing. (I might be able to go up them, but I'd have a heck of a time coming back down.)

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    1. That second set of stairs, to the roof garden, is the kind they sometimes use on ships and in tight spaces where each step is for one foot. It's all too complicated for me!
      The open stairs don't bother me because there is a handrail.

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