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Bradford House
Spring Vale Terrace
West Kensington, W14
Great One Double bedroom flat in West Kensington. Located on the first floor of this 3 storey ex local building, the property consists of large reception, double bedroom, separate kitchen and bathroom. Shared use of terrace.
5 minutes from Kensington Olympia BR / Underground Station and a short walk to the many shops of Hammersmith Broadway and High Street Kensington. Ideal for 1st time buyers or investors with excellent rental returns.
LEASEHOLD
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Facilities
Facilities in W14 feel more geared for visitors than residents. Slap bang in the middle of W14 is the cavernous Kensington Olympia, built in 1884 and able to supply a gargantuan 37,000 square metres of exhibition space split between its three constituent halls.
In recent decades it has had to play second fiddle to the even larger Earls Court Hall - just over the border in SW5 - but with both places now owned by the same firm the two quite happily complement each other. There is certainly no shortage of takers for the halls` spaces. A glance at a typical winter schedule shows interests from around the world converging on W14 to celebrate and display the likes of paediatrics, internet broadband, cats, wine, erotica, fine arts, skiing, babies, Japan, France, accountancy, ships, pharmaceuticals, show jumping, property, graduate recruitment, weddings and "the Spirit of Christmas" (in November). All human life gets its day at the Olympia.
Fittingly for a district of so many and so variable hotel accommodations W14 is blessed with a wide variety of restaurants. This is where the Iranian community, who are well represented in this area between Hammersmith and Kensington, do particularly well. Four Persian eateries can be sampled in W14, the Alounak, Mohsen, Royal Teheran and Yas. There is even an Iranian supermarket, Super Masood, next to the Yas restaurant on Hammersmith Road. Other restaurant cultures to make themselves known here include Chinese, Italian, Indian, American, Lebanese, Spanish, French and Ethiopian.
After the Olympia, W14 must be best known for the Queens Club. Founded in 1886, the other sports which were played here gradually relocated elsewhere to leave tennis the sole survivor. Three clubs are now based here, the British Tennis Foundation, Real Tennis & Racket and the Queens Club. A fourth is not far away on Addison Road, the Holland Park Lawn Tennis Club. The club possesses all the works, a clubhouse, gym, museum, hospitality suite and dining facilities. These accompany the 28 outdoor courts, 8 indoor courts and a sprinkling of real tennis, rackets and squash courts.
Other groups in the area include the Kensington Rifle Club on West Cromwell Road, the 5-a-side football league on North End Road and health clubs which can be found on High Street Kensington, Gliddon Road and Richmond Way. The Royal Ballet School is also in these parts, having relocated to Talgarth Road from Sadlers Wells in 1947. The tiny Barons Court Theatre can be found on Comeragh Road. W14`s concession to the stately home comes on Holland Park Road, where Leighton House commemorates the artist Frederic Leighton and displays some of his contemporaries` finest works. J.E. Millais, E. Burne-Jones and G.F. Watts are among the more famous names and the whole place is an intriguing microcosm of the life of a Victorian aesthete and artist.
Given the preponderance of roads here open spaces never seem to have had a look-in and only the underused Normand Park on the southern border of W14 is of any size. There is at least a swimming pool here and September and December witness some small festivals in the park. It also has an under-5s club and similar organisations, the Holland Park Playgroup and the Warwick Playgroup, can be found at Abbotsbury Road and Warwick Gardens respectively. Although all the main drags have extensive shopping facilities, it is North End Road which is the king of them all and most of the area`s supermarkets can be found here. It is best known for North End Market, open every day bar Sunday, and interspersed with clothing, musical and electronic goods between its dominating theme of fruit and vegetables.
Transport
The land of the car. Talgarth Road (A4) is particularly vicious as it carries one of the capital`s greatest arteries between the Hammersmith Flyover and Cromwell Road. It has busy parallels to the south (Lillie Road, the A3218) and to the north (Hammersmith Road/High Street Ken, the A315 and Shepherds Bush Green, the A40). Crossing over all these, heading north-south, is Holland Road (A3220), the run-off from the Westway`s M41 West Cross Route.
There is no shortage of buses here and tubes are equally well represented. To the north the Central Line appears at Shepherds Bush and Holland Park. The District and Piccadilly Lines turn up at Earls Court (with the branch to Wimbledon), West Kensington and Barons Court. Olympia, of course, has its own tube station run on restricted services at appropriate times but also features on a railway line running from Rugby in the north to Brighton in the south, taking in Gatwick Airport, Clapham Junction and Milton Keynes.
Notice
Please note we have not tested any apparatus, fixtures, fittings, or services. Interested parties must undertake their own investigation into the working order of these items. All measurements are approximate and photographs provided for guidance only.
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