Behind the pink front
The apartment sits behind a pink-painted stucco front on Colville Houses, a quiet no-through road a few minutes from Portobello Market. It takes three storeys of a Victorian house, with a private front door up the steps, four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a garden at the back.
The living room has tall, cornice-wrapped ceilings, a sash bay with folding shutters and white-washed timber floorboards, and it is open to the kitchen beyond. A tall door from the kitchen leads onto a balcony, and steps from the balcony go down to the garden. The garden is laid with Japanese white pebbles, planted with maple, elaeagnus, wisteria, hydrangeas and hosta, and walled on every side.
Below are the principal bedroom, with a freestanding tinned copper bath, and two more bedrooms, one with a door to the garden. A fourth bedroom is at the top, with storage under the eaves. Westbourne Grove and Portobello Road are minutes away on foot, and Westbourne Park, Ladbroke Grove and Notting Hill Gate stations are each about ten minutes' walk.
