Stockwell, London
Within the Stockwell triangle, between Little Portugal, Brixton and Clapham North, is a tree-lined street with a two-bedroom ground-floor flat for sale in a converted Victorian terrace property. The owners have extended it with a side and rear return, which houses the open-plan kitchen-dining-living room. This new space has a partly vaulted ceiling and exposed structural steel beams. The sliding doors open back entirely on to the neat six-metre (20ft) garden, which has a patio and fake grass facing a whitewashed brick wall. £775,000. The Modern House, 0203 795 5920