Stepping into the house on the ground floor, the entrance leads through to an impressive staircase hall. Surrounding the hall there is a spacious front reception room, a modern fitted kitchen with a central island, a breakfast room with separate street access and a dining room overlooking the rear garden.

The lower ground floor contains a well-proportioned service kitchen and extensive utility area. In addition, this floor has a gym, a steam room and a cellar with extensive storage space.

The first floor centres on a grand drawing room with ballroom proportions and exceptionally high ceilings, with sensational views to the front and rear.

The first floor contains a principal bedroom suite, consisting of a bedroom with views down the Thames, a generous dressing room, an ensuite bathroom and a shower room.

Furthermore, this floor features an additional ensuite bedroom and a study with garden views.The second floor offers six bedrooms and three bathrooms, two of them ensuite. This floor also includes a reception room that could become a seventh bedroom and another kitchen. Finally, there is a loft with considerable storage space.

The house’s ground and first floor have lofty Georgian proportions, including large sash windows that fill the living spaces with light. At the same time, the property has been extensively renovated by the present owner, with interiors that sensitively enhance the building’s unique history. This blend of traditional and contemporary details result in elegant and comfortable rooms throughout.

The property includes an exceptionally generous and private L-shaped rear garden measuring 0.5 acres (1.2 hectares). This includes expansive lawns, mature trees, a pond, a greenhouse, a tool shed, and off-street parking. There is also a front-garden alongside the Thames.

Read more about the incredible garden here.

Walpole House is the largest and finest mansion on Chiswick Mall. The core of the property is Tudor, with features from the sixteenth and seventeenth century, while the river frontage dates back to 1730. The house is Grade I listed and the wrought-iron front gate is Grade II* listed. In its long history, Walpole House has been occupied by numerous celebrated figures. These include Barbara Villiers, mistress of King Charles II; the MP and banker Thomas Walpole; the sculptor John Issac Thornycroft; the actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree; and more recently the designer Jasper Conran. Chiswick Mall is a beautiful and historic street running alongside the Thames.

It is lined by impressive Georgian and Victorian properties, many with gardens on the other side of the road overlooking the river and the Chiswick Eyot. The Mall forms the centrepiece of the Old Chiswick conservation area and has been painted by artists such as Pissarro, as well as used in films like Howards End.