Clapham Property

Buying advice for property searching in Clapham, London

Depending on where you feel Battersea stops, or overlaps, this has long been a refuge for those looking for more house for their money.

Once you get away from the smaller terraced housing running down the hill to the river and onto Clapham Common itself, there is a real feeling of space and air. The housing stock is loosely divided into four main groups.

On both the Northside and Westside of the Common are some large detached houses, up to 6,000 square feet, dating from the late seventeenth century and directly overlooking the Common. These rarely come to the market. There are individual streets, such as Macaulay Road running on the Northside of the Common, with large family houses, but largely the streets on this side are made up of generous Victorian houses chopped into flats. In the north-east corner is Clapham Old Town, which is mainly Georgian with a distinctive village feel to it, and only a short walk to Clapham Common underground station. Beyond here, in the area to the east of Clapham High Street, the landscape changes quickly with large swathes of Lambeth taken up by numerous housing estates.

On the Southside is the recently dubbed ‘Abbeville Village’ with a network of streets running off the bustling Abbeville Road. To those in the know, this is a thriving little patch with a wide variety of Victorian and Edwardian housing stock.

From Clapham South underground station in the south-west corner, Nightingale Lane leads to Wandsworth Common, bisecting the Northcote Road area and the ‘Nightingale Triangle’ on the Balham side. Those looking ‘Between the Commons’ with larger budgets would aspire to live in this cross-border territory.

Like neighbouring Battersea and Wandsworth, schools are numerous here, but demand for places is strong. Recent improvements to the Northern underground line and the opening of a new supermarket have also added to the area.

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