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The sea captains of yesteryear knew how to live – as their grand homes demonstrate. “They would have been for first mates and the like”, explains Kevin Allen of John D Wood & Co. estate agency. “The ship captains and owners would have lived in Nelson Place, where the houses are also Georgian but probably three times the size.” Homes on Captains Row, most with three bedrooms, sell for about £400,000, he estimates, and those on… more

High ceilings and bags of original details come with this flat wrapped in gothic glory of Wandsworth’s Royal Victoria Patriotic Building. Oak floors and large windows feature in the open-plan kitchen/reception room, while both bedrooms have ample storage. Through John D Wood & Co. 

The Old Manor, Shippon, Oxfordshire. A 17th-century, Grade II-listed manor house with 18th-century additions that is in need of some modernisation. The gardens include a walled garden and two vegetable gardens, with a greenhouse, 5 beds, 2 baths, 3 receptions, garage, 0.45 acres. £1.5m John D Wood & Co. 01865-311522.

Built to ease pressure on housing stock, London’s mansion flats are in demand writes Kate Watson-Smyth. Alex Oppenheim, associate director of estate agency John D Wood, in Battersea, says that flats in this area of southwest London mostly achieve 104 per cent of their asking price. “They are sought after by both first-time buyers and those with families,” he says. “We have people on waiting lists for particular building and a… more

The genius of Grade II-listed Clock House at Cowfold, near Horsham, West Sussex- currently for sale through John D. Wood & Co (020-7908 1108) at a guide price of £2.5m-is its designer, the Arts-and-Crafts architect Richard Barry Parker, who, with his partner Raymond Unwin, designed Hampstead Garden Suburb. Commissioned in 1913 by James Rolls-Hoare as a wedding present for his eldest daughter, Muriel, on her marriage to Sir Edmund… more