The house dates back to the early 20th century. It has a semibasement, a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor. It is a burrstone edifice with touches of red brickwork, cast-iron lintels adorned with glazed-ceramic flowers, and art nouveau guardrails. It offers a spacious reception room with a 50m² floor area and a working fireplace. This reception room leads out to a garden via a broad glazed door and a raised terrace on stilts. A kitchen with a glazed roof adjoins the reception room. This kitchen lies at a lower level, a few steps down. Below this kitchen there is a pleasant conservatory that connects to the semibasement. The first floor has three large bedrooms. They look out at the calm neighbouring gardens. There is also a separate lavatory and a bathroom with a window on this floor. On the second floor, there is a spacious bedroom with an open bathroom, a separate lavatory and a terrace built into the roof. Lastly, in the garden, there is a workshop that blends harmoniously into the vegetation. It has an arched window and its own shower room with a lavatory. This workshop adjoins two closed garages that you can reach from the road.

The house

The right side of the house adjoins an edifice from the same era. Since then, this building has been divided into apartments. The other sides do not adjoin any other structures. The burrstone facade is embellished with touches of red brickwork. The first-floor windows and the lounge’s side window have cast-iron lintels, adorned with glazed-ceramic flowers. They are framed within a fine decor of brickwork and burrstone. The windows are also fitted with art nouveau guardrails and traditional metal louvred shutters. The house’s top level is decorated with beige brickwork and a geometric pattern of rendering that mimics timber framing. This decor showcases a triple-section window beneath the eaves of the roof’s clipped hip end. The garden-level floor has a broad glazed door in a wood-and-metal frame with the original blue tone of the windows and shutters. It was fitted in the 1990s where the main room’s two windows used to be. This broad glazed door leads out onto a timber terrace and serves as a viewpoint for admiring the vegetation outside. On the left side of the edifice, a conservatory leads to the main hallway. At the back, an extension beneath a glazed roof was built where there used to be a courtyard. This has created a bright space that has been turned into a kitchen and conservatory.

The garden-level floor
When you step through the original wooden glazed door with wrought-iron grates with arabesque motifs, you reach a hallway that connects to the reception rooms and from where you can go down to the semibasement and up to the first floor. A vast reception room with a 50m² floor area and modern wood-strip flooring evoking a boat deck extends on the right. The room is bathed in natural light from the glazed door, which, in the summer, makes the room remarkably bright and offers a broad view of the garden. In the right-hand corner, there is a black-marble fireplace in a Napoleon III style with lion-claw jamb bases. Once sweeped, this fireplace will be able to provide roaring fires. Outside, the terrace upon stilts, which is level with the lounge, extends the reception space cleverly. On this terrace, you can make the most of the garden in spring. And its structure allows natural light to reach the semibasement below. The spacious reception room leads to the kitchen, at a slightly lower level, via a few steps. This kitchen is bathed in natural light from a glazed roof. A table for family meals could easily be placed in this kitchen. The kitchen looks down at a conservatory that connects to the semibasement. This lower-level conservatory is the perfect spot to grow plants and create a Mediterranean garden or even set up an office or workshop.

The first floor
From the entrance hallway, an original oak staircase leads up to the first floor. This floor has kept its old oak-strip flooring. It includes three comfortable bedrooms that look out at the garden. One of them, in the corner, is a dual-aspect room that faces vegetation. This first floor also includes a bathroom, filled with natural light from a window, and a separate lavatory.

The second floor
The staircase carries on up to the top floor where there is a vast bedroom with an open bathroom: a triple-aspect space bathed in natural light. Wardrobes have been fitted in this roof space along one wall. The bathroom is spacious and includes a shower, a bath and, between two windows, a semi-circular washbasin adorned with tiny white tiles with red pointing. A hidden door at the back takes you to a separate lavatory. From this comfortable bathroom, a glazed opening leads out onto a terrace that was built into the roof when the house was transformed in the late 1990s.

The basement
The semibasement extends beneath both the original edifice and the extension with its glazed roof that was built where a courtyard used to be. This semibasement includes a boiler room with a gas boiler that should be replaced. One room looks out at the garden through a window and another one leads out to the garden via a glazed door. The latter was partially walled up some years ago but could be given back its original purpose. The first room, a former television lounge inspired by Moroccan aesthetics, connects to the conservatory. And an office, which also connects to the conservatory, extends beneath the kitchen. Furthermore, the semibasement has a hallway that has been turned into a utility room, as well as a large cupboard.