Chiswick Property

Buying advice for property searching in Chiswick, London

Chiswick has three main parts, one of which is physically divided from the rest.

The core is around Chiswick High Road and Turnham Green Terrace with its shops, coffee bars and restaurants. It is very much a London village with its own distinctive flavour and local specialities. It is also sufficiently far away from the river for the flight-path into Heathrow not to be too much of a problem.

The area between Chiswick High Road and the A4 is very typical of west London, with Edwardian streets of medium-sized family houses of the type that is very common in Fulham. To the north is one of the earliest garden suburbs, Bedford Park, which has a very distinctive feel due to the Arts and Crafts architecture of Norman Shaw et al, which buyers tend to either love or hate. This is an area of big houses and green spaces and correspondingly high prices. To the south of the A4 is Grove Park with earlier Victorian houses intermingled with houses built in the 1950s and 1960s as a result of stray bomb damage during the war.

The real gem is Chiswick Mall, an almost completely unspoiled terrace of Georgian houses with gardens running down to the river and views over to Barnes and Hammersmith Bridge. This is real rus in urbe with an atmosphere that is rare in London. Beautiful and charming though it is, it is completely cut off from the rest of Chiswick by the huge arterial road that is the A4. Access to it by car is via the Hogarth roundabout and there are few shops of any description nearby. As the river is the main flight-path into Heathrow, aeroplanes can be a problem.

Communications by underground are good for Chiswick north of the A4. Grove Park is served by the mainline station into Waterloo (25 minutes). The A4 and the Hammersmith flyover means that, apart from at peak times, road access is reasonable.

For more information on buying advice and property searching in Chiswick, London, contact the Property Vision London property search and advice team.