THE STUDIO HARTHAM ROAD, N7 9JG

Tuesday 24 April 2012

“A Country idyll in London - near perfect”

What a great place- I cant recommend enough! We could hardly bear to leave.

We booked Hartham Road for a birthday weekend for my partner. We had wanted to take a cottage in the country but one of our friends had to be in London so we thought we would try and find a piece of the country in London.

So what a bit of luck to find an an extraordinary artists studio converted, by a labour of love, into a cottage built in a C-Shape around a delightful Arcadian garden [complete with pond, folly and sculpture].

The house has a wonderful cosy back bedroom, clean and well appointed bathroom, an eat in kitchen [with great china] and a lovely window seat . Best of all there is a 20 foot by 30 foot artists studio. All the ceilings are high with big windows and sky lights. The Studio has a huge double and a comfy single- a great room to entertain in and a great room for a family. A very grand door with Corinthian columns opens out in to the garden and the trickle of a fountain......

It is also incredibly peaceful. Sat in the studio or garden you would have no clue you were five minutes from Caledonian Road Tube. It would be the ideal balm to a day seeing the sites in London G and T's on the terrace, cosy dinner in the kitchen and drift away in the studio.
Perfect for four or five of you on a long weekend or as a holiday base.

It is one of those places so good you only want to recommend to your really good friends - so shh- don't tell anyone unless they are really special.