Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park N4

A two bedroom Victorian flat of tall sash windows, stone-toned tiles and old London brick, opening at the back onto a walled garden of its own.

Mornings here begin in the bay, where tall sash windows wrap around a round dining table, pulling dappled early light into the room. Evenings belong to the other end of the flat - here the principal bedroom’s glazed door opens onto a few steps and into a garden enclosed by old London brick, green with mature trees and climbing plants. In between, a long hallway links a second double bedroom and a warm, stone-tiled shower room.

In the principal bedroom coving frames the ceiling and oak-toned flooring runs underfoot, leading the eye to the window and glazed door at its far end, filling the room with a soft green light from the planting outside. Set at the quiet back of the building, it’s a restful retreat from the street, with the garden only a few steps away.

Opening off the hallway, the second bedroom is a well-proportioned double of over 10ft, with oak-toned wood-effect flooring running underfoot and a tall sash window looking onto greenery. The space would suit a guest room, nursery or home office equally well.

Large-format taupe tiles wrap the shower room from floor to ceiling, around a generous enclosure with a chrome thermostatic shower and a heated towel rail.

The reception room and kitchen share one open space, with coving overhead and oak-toned wood-effect flooring giving way to pale stone-effect tiles along the kitchen run. High-gloss white wall units sit above base units in a striped, zebrano-style wood finish, a pleasing balance of gloss and grain. There’s a four-burner gas hob, a built-in oven, an integrated extractor and a tall housing unit for extra storage.

The building belongs to a handsome Victorian terrace of yellow London stock brick, banded with red brick string courses and arched in red over each window, with white-painted bays and round-arched entrances set above short flights of steps. Fonthill Road was already on the map by 1869, the year Finsbury Park itself opened to the public, and the street has had a wonderfully colourful life since. The photographer Don McCullin grew up at number 40, and some of his first celebrated pictures captured Islington in the 1950s. From the 1960s the road built a reputation in the rag trade and by the 1980s it had become a destination for bridal and occasion wear, drawing shoppers and fashion buyers from across the country.

The Neighbourhood: Finsbury Park

Fonthill Road sits at the heart of Finsbury Park, a lively, cosmopolitan corner of North London. Seven Sisters Road is right on the doorstep. There, Le Rif has long been loved for couscous and tagines finished with mint tea from a brass pot, while Fantail brings good coffee to the end of St Thomas’s Road. Just beyond the station, Blackstock Road was named one of Time Out’s coolest streets in the world in 2025. It’s home to Yard Sale Pizza, a North London favourite for its wood-fired pizzas, and The Woodbine, a cosy Irish pub.

Finsbury Park itself is moments away, with a boating lake, tennis courts, a café at its centre and summer concerts drawing international acts. The Park Theatre, one of London’s most respected off-West End stages, sits beside the station. Finsbury Park Station is a short stroll from the front door, with Piccadilly, Victoria and Great Northern/Thameslink services into the City and West End.