Property Search - Wandsworth
Wandsworth like its neighbour Battersea is a town of extremes (a fact highlighted in the film Love Actually) containing some light industry and warehouse sites rapidly being surrounded by luxury riverside housing. The last twenty years has seen Wandsworth join the ranks of the most expensive and desirable London towns. In February 2007 the Evening Standard placed Wandsworth as a borough with the third most million-pound property sales in the capital behind Kensington/Chelsea and Westminster. Many of these sales are due to Wandsworth's (The Town) rapid riverside development catering for the Chelsea overspill.
Since at least the early 16th century Wandsworth has offered accommodation to consecutive waves of immigration; from Protestant Dutch metalworkers fleeing persecution in the 1590s to recent Eastern European members of the European Union.[2] An influx of French Huguenot refugees in the early 17th century is remembered in many local street names. There is a band of small and expensive terraced housing (known as The Tonsleys) behind Old York Road — the former centre of old Wandsworth — rising to an area of grander terraced semi-detached and detached housing along the roads bounded by West Side Wandsworth Common Earlsfield Road and East Hill. In contrast at the base of East Hill is a collection of high-rise council blocks.
According to an article in The Guardian in 2004:
Wandsworth has a greater proportion of people whose lifestyle views and trends shape the zeitgeist more than anywhere else in the UK. Wandsworth in other words is groovier than everywhere else in Britain.
According to the Evening Standard"Wandsworth is the hotspot" for those people in London earning over £100 000.
On 2 October 2008 Robert Tuttle United States Ambassador anounced that a new US Embassy would be built in Wandsworth and the existing one in Grosvenor Square would be sold.
Areas in Wandsworth
The River Front
A former wharf area and now a long river walk towards Battersea Village and the West End. It is now lined with new apartment blocks with several bars and restaurants. Notable pubs include The Ship Inn near Wandsworth Bridge. The Waterfront on Battersea Reach is a very large bar with excellent view towards Chelsea Harbour.
Wandsworth Common
Set back from the river at the top of East Hill containing an area known locally as "the Toast Rack" that has some of the most expensive townhouses in London[2] across from Bellevue Road containing several boutiques and the famous restaurant Chez Bruce formerly Harveys where chef Gordon Ramsay learned his trade and voted one of London's favourite restaurants in 2006.[citation needed] The area also contains one of Wandsworth's most impressive buildings the Royal Victoria Patriotic Building which now contains flats a theatre school and the "Le Gothique" restaurant.
St John's Hill
There are many independent cafés bars and restaurants on St John's Hill including the Evening Standard award winning Fish Club and Out Of The Blue a popular wine bar.
The Tonsleys/Old York Road
A residential area of old Wandsworth close to the river and town centre so called because many of the street names have the word "Tonsley" included. It has a village feel with the Old York Road's cafes and shops at its heart. The area contains three notable pubs the Royal Standard the East Hill and The Alma. Brady's Fish Restaurant serves traditional fish and chips in comfortable middle class surroundings. The area was recently used as the location for the BBC TV series Outnumbered. Houses in this area although small sell from £600k to over £1 mil and are desired because they retain their Victorian character and are in close proximity to the Wandsworth Town train station. The houses are very popular with city workers lawyers advertising executives and other professionals.
East Hill
An area of Large Victorian houses bordered by the west side of Wandsworth Common. The De Morgan Centre houses a collection of Victorian artwork.
Wandsworth High Street
A rather traffic-choked street picking up much of the traffic from the A3 the High Street is dominated by the recently-regenerated Southside shopping centre cinema and restaurant complex (formerly and still and more commonly referred to as the Arndale Centre).
Nearest railway stations:
Wandsworth Town railway station
Wandsworth Common train station (one stop from Clapham Junction and 12 minutes train ride from Victoria)
Earlsfield railway station (one stop from Clapham Junction and 12 minutes train ride from Waterloo Station)
Famous residents
Naveen Andrews — actor
Alun Armstrong — actor
Marcus Brigstocke — comedian
Martin Bashir — journalist
Tony Blair — former Prime Minister (shared a house with Charlie Falconer in the Tonsleys on Bramford Road)
Jack Dee — comedian/actor
Sophie Dahl — model
Daniel Defoe — author
George Eliot — author
Lord Charlie Falconer — politician (shared a house with Tony Blair in the Tonsleys on Bramford Road)
Jason Flemyng — actor
Edward Gibbon—English historian
Mark Owen — singer
Ainsley Harriott — TV chef
Keira Knightley — actress
David Lloyd George — former Prime Minister
Kevin Pietersen — cricketer
Gordon Ramsay — chef
Prunella Scales — actor
Jessica Taylor — singer with Liberty X
William Makepeace Thackery — novelist
Johnny Vaughan — television presenter
Voltaire — French philosopher
Emma Ferguson — actress
Timothy West — actor
Holly Willoughby — TV Presenter
Thomas Craig — actor
Michael Nicholson — journalist
Oliver Krahelski — skiier
Marcus Jones — philanthropist
Jonathan Ansell — singer
Phil Spencer — TV presenter
Frank Bruno — boxer
Nearest places
Balham
Battersea
Clapham
Earlsfield
Fulham
Putney
Southfields
Streatham
Tooting
Wimbledon
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