Newest unique homes for sale & for rent on the market this week

From a converted Modernist Waterfront Home on the Thames, to a characterful industrial Former Art Gallery featured in film and TV in the heart of Old Street, and a Brutalist wunderbar in the Rowley Way estate, we have the latest properties that have come onto the market this week. Whether you fancy living in a piece of history, an industrial location shoot space, or a Brutalist timepiece, it is all here for you this week.

Modernist Waterfront Home

A truly original south-facing waterfront home, hidden away from public view while opening up onto the Thames with an unobscured outlook across the Greenwich Royal Naval College and Observatory, the Cutty Sark, and the London skyline. This home is one of London’s best-kept secrets.

Located in a formerly deprived neighbourhood of the Isle of Dogs, and built by renowned architectural firm Stout and Litchfield, infamous for New House, Shipton-under-Wychwood (which featured in Stanley Kubrick’s big-screen adaptation of A Clockwork Orange), 50-52 Ferry Street is a lesser-known but highly significant self-build project, completed in 1979.

As noted by Historic England in The Architects’ Journal, after the property was Grade II listed in 2021:

“Historic England hailed the block as a ‘fragment of an exceptional vision’ which aimed to ‘create an alternative response to meeting housing need, giving people the opportunity to share in the creation of a new community’.”
(Source: The Architects’ Journal)

Constructed of pre-cast concrete, with the façade finished in white flint lime brick and a reclaimed Welsh slate roof, the entire property was closely designed by the current vendor alongside the architect. In the 1970s, this was an incredibly pioneering and forward-thinking approach to home ownership, whereas today self-building has become far more commonplace.

Occupying a double plot, the owners designed a six-to-seven-bedroom, 5,349 sq. ft. home with uninterrupted views over the River Thames, across to the Greenwich Royal Naval College and the Cutty Sark. In the words of the vendor’s father, “this is the best view in London” – a statement that is hard to dispute.

£1,950,000 – click here for the image gallery, plans and description

Accessible via two entrances, one through a private loading door directly from street level and the other through a shared communal entrance, the property immediately evokes the feeling of an original London warehouse. Entering through the loading doors, you arrive in the living space or second bedroom, which originally housed the main gallery. Blank white walls and a mezzanine office overlook the handsome brick warehouses of Dingley Place through vast sash windows.

Beyond a large sliding wall, originally designed to separate work from life during its former use as a gallery, the open-plan reception space reveals its full ceiling height. For purist loft lovers, this area delivers everything a loft should – concrete tiles, exposed ironmongery, and expansive walls of glass that flood the space with natural light.

Direct access leads to a glorious private urban oasis, not overlooked, with lush mature palm trees and strategically placed mirrors that refract light into every corner of the garden.

Tucked around the corner is an urban kitchen with ample floor-to-ceiling storage, easily catering for an extravagant lifestyle. All essential integrated appliances are included.

Well known within the media industry as a highly adaptable film and TV location, the current owner generates a substantial income from hires. Major credited productions include Killing Eve, Catastrophe, and Fleabag.

£1,750,000 – click here for the image gallery, plans and description

Brutalist Apartment

A refurbished Brutalist one-bedroom flat within the historic and iconic Rowley Way estate, one of the best-preserved examples of Brutalist neighbourhood living in Europe. Borough architects at their peak designed homes to thrive in, not simply to inhabit, and this property is no exception.

£1900 per month – click here for the image gallery, plans and description 

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