Linden Park

Four garden squares laid out between 1901 and 1912, planted with London planes that are now eighty feet tall and doing most of the architectural work. The layout has never been altered.

What was built here

The original stock is rendered and brick villa, three storeys over a semi-basement, set behind low garden walls with the railings reinstated after wartime removal. In the 1970s a handful of plots on the western side were rebuilt — Halvard Nyman did three of them — and those are the houses that come up rarely and go quickly: white render, generous glazing to the rear, terrazzo floors, brass ironmongery gone soft gold with handling.

Rear gardens are deep for a city plot, typically thirty metres, and they back onto each other rather than onto a road. That is what makes the squares quiet.

Living here

Most of Linden Park sits within a conservation area. In practice that governs windows, front boundary treatment and anything visible from the square; rear extensions are routinely approved. The plane trees are individually protected, so work near roots needs consent and a method statement.

Parking is by permit and the squares are oversubscribed. Nearly every buyer we have walked through here has decided that was an acceptable trade.