Ref: WES. Westbourne Park Road, W2.

Quality high tech family house in Bayswater, with car parking - sleeps 8/10.  Map

This is the house that fell down - literally! 4 years ago the underpinning designed to make their 1846 house more stable caused it to collapse suddenly and spectacularly into a pile of rubble. Since then the owners, a successful writer and her husband, have had it completely re-built - no underpinning and subsidence problems this time! They loved their old house and wanted it back in the same style as before. The result is a splendid large "Victorian" family house with 21^st century technology: under-floor heating, smart modern bathrooms, low voltage dimmable halogen lighting throughout and a broadband internet connection in every room (bring your own laptop and lead to connect it to a standard RJ45 socket, and ensure it is configured to connect to a LAN).

Your nearest tube, 2 minutes walk, is Royal Oak (Hammersmith and City Lines); Bayswater (Circle and District Lines) and Queensway (Central Line) are within 10 minutes.

The house comfortably sleeps 8 adults in 3 double bedrooms and 2 singles, with 3 bathrooms. A further 2 children / young adults can be accommodated on put-me-up beds in 2 of the double rooms. There's off street car parking for 2 cars at the front of the house.

The accommodation, presented in "comfortable English" style, is on 3 floors. On the ground floor the hall opens onto a huge (23ft x 13ft9, 7m x 4.2m) formal reception room, which is the family music room. There are easy chairs, a working coal-effect gas fire and a good piano. If the dining table is moved through the double doors from the kitchen/dining area next door the room also makes an excellent formal dining room.

The kitchen/dining area (20ft x 17ft6, 6.1m x 5.30m) has a smart modern kitchen (twin electric ovens, gas hob, granite work top, dishwasher, etc. etc.. There's no microwave but there is an ice making machine. The dining area has an antique dining table + 8 chairs. This gives out onto a paved patio with garden furniture and a good-sized attractive garden - a real plus if you have children.

There's also a downstairs loo/cloakroom on this floor.

On the first floor is the drawing room and the master bedroom with en-suite bathroom. The drawing room ( 19ft9 x 15ft9, 6m x 4.8m) is designed as a comfortable family room. There's a 3 seater sofa and an arm chair - when these places are taken the remaining members of the family just spread out on the carpet! As might be expected in the house of a writer one entire wall is given over to bookshelves and books. To complete the room there's a TV (digital channels, VCR and DVD), stereo and working coal-effect gas fire (very cosy in winter).

The attractive master bedroom (15ft6 x 13ft, 4.7m x 4m) has a 4ft6 bed. The large French windows open onto a balcony which overlooks the garden. The high quality marble en-suite bathroom has bath with power shower, twin "his and hers" basins and a loo.

On the top floor there are a further 4 bedrooms: 2 doubles, one of which overlooks the garden and two singles. Two put-me-up beds suitable for children / young adults are available for each of the top floor doubles. There are another two marble bathrooms, one with shower, basin and loo, the other with bath (with hand shower), basin and loo. The laundry facilities (washer and separate dryer) are on this floor.

The house is very close to Westbourne Road and Queensway, in a great position to experience one of the most cosmopolitan parts of London, famed for its huge variety of restaurants of every sort and culture serving cuisine from literally all over the world. You are also just 10 minutes walk from Notting Hill and Portobello Road with its famous Saturday market.

This is a No Smoking property.