_Virginia Woolf's former Richmond home where she started Hogarth Press for sale
Asking price: £3,300,000
A blue plaque on the front of the house commemorates this 4-bedroom historic London home, spanning 4 floors, which served as the main London residence of the Woolfs from 1915 until 1924.
Their experimental publishing house, Hogarth Press, was established at the property from their dining room table in 1917 as a distraction from Woolf's depressive episodes. Through Hogarth Press, the couple manually published works, via a printing press, by key modernist writers of the time, becoming one of the most important promoters of modernism, exciting and provocative new writing, and wider British literary culture. Both property and press have endured the passage of time, important postcards of artistic and architectural achievement.
Handsome, symmetrical Georgian proportions and a boxy footprint spread across 3,603 characterise this good looking Richmond home in the heart of this leafy borough and moments from Richmond's centre. Perhaps it's here that you'll find inspiration for your next novel?
Columns, typical of Georgian-era homes, provide a grand sense of arrived, a hallway leading on to a formal reception room, with it's clean lines, generous volumes and striking ceiling heights amplified by plenty of natural light. Also on this floor is a dining room, to the rear of the property.
On the floor below is the British hand-crafted eat-in kitchen with built in Miele appliances, a central island with hob and eating area, a further reception room, cloakroom/utility room and shower room.
Plenty of period features sit cheek-by-jowel with 21st Century mod cons, updated for modern family living. A neutral decor is used to great effect with white walls, wood panelling and classic herringbone floors provide a fresh canvas for new owners to work with.
On the first floor is the beautiful principal bedroom with feature fireplace, second bedroom, and a bathroom again with fireplace. On the second floor are two further well-proportioned bedrooms, one of which is en suite, and a family bathroom with period fireplace.
To the rear of the house is the pretty landscaped courtyard garden, designed by Chelsea award-winner Heather Appleton to provide maximum privacy and a low maintenance garden.
A parking space is available by separate negotiation in the covered car park on Paradise Road, along with five years of car club membership.
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