The modernist building on Rochester Place
(Picture: Rightmove)In October, a property in California went viral for its labyrinthine —and totally illogical— floorplan. The main bathroom was a thoroughfare, and the only way of getting from one side of the house to the other. There was an attached garage, but it had no access to the house. It rattled the internet, sending bad architecture Facebook groups up in arms.
If you, too, have got your eye on a property with an unusual layout, look no further than this studio flat for rent in Camden.
Alongside a convenient central location, the property has many features to recommend it.
Recently refurbished, the flat has plain white walls and a cream carpet.
There is a kitchenette with a full-sized oven and electric hob, a good amount of storage space and large windows bringing in natural light as well as direct access to a shared garden.
Look at the floorplan, however, and you’ll see that, once inside, there is no internal access to the kitchen and bathroom.
The only way of reaching them is to leave the flat altogether, go into the community garden and re-enter via a separate set of garden doors, which lead into the galley kitchen.
The shower room with toilet and sink is accessed via a single door directly off the kitchen.
Although the shower and oven are mere inches from each other, it’s not quite possible to wash and cook at the same time thanks to the partition wall between them. But almost!
Being long and narrow the galley kitchen can’t accommodate a table. Instead, renters can take their dinner back outside, through the garden, and into the open plan living/bedroom to enjoy.
Located in Rochester Place, a mews which straddles Kentish Town and Camden, the 306sq ft studio costs £1,250 to rent per month.
The front door opens onto a hallway, which leads into a bedroom-cum-reception room, with two generous adjoining storage cupboards.
At the opposite side of the room is the paved, secluded community garden, through which residents must go to prepare food, wash or use the toilet. The next tenant will have to hope for sympathetic neighbours.
According to Camden Council’s records, the brutalist building contains two self-contained maisonettes, for which plans were approved in 1967. It was originally designed by the architect Ludwik Chrzaszcz in brick with a concrete frame.
Interested? The flat is available from 20 January 2023 with Chestertons.
