Inside a Largely Intact Victorian House in Stoke Newington - 20 January 2025

[@nancyfox64]

Thank you for sharing this. So many memories of our first home when we married. Sadly, it no longer exists as a whole street of these wonderfully strong and characterful houses was torn down to make way for a motorway. Our door number was in the high 200s so I should imagine at least 600 of these homes, both side of the road, were demolished. We loved living in that home - even though we had little by way of furnishings, many of which were second hand, we made it a cosy, welcoming home. My hope is that whoever buys it, appreciates and retains its character with a few modifications.

[@Laura-g1c1l]

You can tell it was remodeled in the 1930's/40's by the fireplaces. So a Victorian shell, with pretty much a mix of Victorian and Art Deco in the interior.

[@barbarabyers2721]

Thank you for not talking. Really absorbed the beauty and past vibes and lives

[@lailaayan306]

Beautiful. Thank you god. Thank you for my Omaze house. Thank you for listening and blessing me with the miraculous means of finally being able to have my very own house, my very own home. May I, you and everyone reading this comment are blessed where our 4 walls brim with light, happiness, health, wealth and laughter. Endless love and good days. God bless

[@agnespm4181]

Someone's precious and much loved home. Thank you for sharing ❤

[@lauragrivainisthorne8242]

What a treasure. Thank you so much for capturing the history of this beautiful home while it's still intact.

[@bethenecampbell6463]

I hope the next owners are more into restoration than renovation. It hasngood bones and needs some love, but could be a cozy charmer.

[@Golightly354]

Wow, how beautiful. Just like the one I grew up in and like the one I live in now. Many thanks.

[@KT-tp7dk]

I was hoping the landing cupboard would be there. Love those. Hope whoever buys it doesn't rip the heart & soul out of it.

[@AT-ld7kg]

to avoid tearing the heart out of the house he has to empty his bank account, hoping that he really has a lot of it!

[@dianemcwilliams6705]

Quite lovely tour around this once, very gracious house - thank you! I do hope that it is never over-modernised!

[@lilgeorge34]

I love Victorian houses I bet this was grand in its heyday. Thank you for sharing this tour with us all.

[@kiddlesk]

Have to admit, that made me quite emotional. 81 isn't that old really and yet she lived a very modest life as the world changed around her. The little glimpses of her Jewish faith and frugal existence make me wonder what of her family, what support did she get etc. Hand rails and four walkers suggests that social care has been provided and the computer and flat screen TV contrast with the 50 year old bedside radio. A wonderful snapshot of someone who probably had a very happy 67 years there...since she was 14 or 15.

[@raizellouisebarnes6348]

Can see from the video. Alot of memories and beautiful loved jewish home .......

[@beverlygannon4141]

Yes I agree. 👍❤️

[@jeniallenby8389]

thank you for this my grandfather's family lived and died in Stoke Newington so this is a great way to get a feel for their lives

[@lesliegprice6652]

Thank you takes me back to my very happy childhood in the fifties and sixties our flat was in a house very similar to this , the cornices on the ceilings and the plaster work were almost identical , I hope the buyers preserve some of those features 😊

[@LindaPerry_337]

I was admiring the cornices too. My dad was in the building game, and he won awards for mastercraftmenship.❤️🙋‍♀️

[@MrTryxxter]

Ah, so even by the 50s these houses were being turned into flats? I'd long assumed it was more recent than that. Id lived in a terrace house in the east end in the late 80's and very few had been altered at that point. Although I was v young!

[@stevovimy]

Those fireplaces are 30s art deco with later gas inserts, but it is a beautiful house. I think fireplaces of that period are rarer than Victorian ones.

[@PeterTylor]

They are certainly Art Deco style, but, from my knowledge of builders' merchants' catalogues of the period and my observations of similar houses, I think these ones are more likely to be from the 1950s - perhaps from around or shortly before 1957, when the previous owners moved in. The catalogues show that the Art Deco style persisted in fireplace designs well into the 1950s (and some of those on offer then could indeed pass for pre-war), but there was a tendency for them to become plainer and paler with less pronounced mottling than the earlier ones, and these ones show this tendency. (Similar trends are also apparent with other fixtures and fittings such as bathroom suites and door handles.) I have also noticed that, when this style of fireplace is found in Victorian houses, they tend to be the later, plainer ones - which reflects the fact that many more such houses were subjected to significant refurbishment after WW2 than before it. I agree that this kind of fireplace is less common than the Victorian sort, certainly if you are looking to buy one. Although a few turn up for sale, I imagine that others get destroyed, either because they don't survive removal or because those who take them out don't think that anyone else would want them - even though the fact that some do sell shows that this is not always the case!

[@historyofstokey3342]

Correct hence why the title of the video is 'Largely intact' and not completely intact ;)

[@C.Hughes-Lloyd]

No they're not the style is straight up 1950s. Btw, read the description.

[@C.Hughes-Lloyd]

No, the style of them is not 1930s Art Deco.​@@PeterTylor

[@davethewife7628]

​@PeterTylor i was trying to see the fireplaces..the hearth in particular..early art deco tiled fireplaces had a totally flat hearth wheras the later 50s ones had a well defined lip at the front to catch embers from the fire.

[@vikkifenlon6741]

This brought back lovely memories of my great grandma's home in Lewisham in the 1950s. The back room was the kitchen with a range in the fireplace and the old gas lighting with mantles, the front room was the parlour and at the back was the scullery, where there was a huge sink, and a clothes boiler, plus the clothes wringer, all busy on Monday washing days. There was an outside toilet but no bathroom. Baths were taken in the zinc bathtub in front of the range. She died in the 1950s and when my Aunt took over, she added electric lighting, made the scullery into the kitchen, and sacrificed one of the 3 bedrooms to become a bathroom, do no more were the visits to the outside toilet in chilly winters! I wish I had photos of all this to remember, but your video came close, thank you.

[@Katesharpandvoice]

It would be so nice to see it restored...and the deco alterations restored too. Shalom.

[@kallymavromatis123]

What a sweet house: Gorgeous details! The fireplaces! Some beautiful pieces of furniture! And the PINK BATHROOM!! Love love love. I hope whomever bought it appreciates the details and preserves them.

[@merriemisfit8406]

I spent some formative youth living in a house with not just pink fixtures in the bathroom, but pink appliances in the kitchen. I know from looking at real estate listings online that the house has been signficantly remodeled, with all the pink removed and probably hauled away to a landfill. It is interior-designedly heartbreaking. Those touches of dare-to-be-different idiosyncrasy are lost, and practically impossible and unaffordable to replace. That house I lived in was in the burn zone of the recent fire that torched Malibu, California. It still stands intact -- I've seen it on aerial video.

[@993Redveg]

I live in a similar house in New Cross Gate in the borough of Lewisham. I have lived there since 1997. My husband and I first lived with our three children, then in their teens. They all left eventually, and we are now there alone. He is 82 and I am 76. We will not move again. Our kitchen is in 'garret' style at the back of the house and has a door on the right leading to a similar, but somewhat larger garden. The bathroom upstairs is of a similar style, but our bath is on the left, rather than on the left as in this house in north London. We have some original features, but an extension was added to the house in the 1960's and, unfortunately, most of this was taken away. I really like the house, but wish it were somewhere less urban. It is more less as we want it now, much more comfortable than the house in the video.

[@993Redveg]

Sorry, for the typo, in the reference to the bath in the house in the video. The bath is, of course on the right.

[@JitkaJankovska]

The beauty of Victorian is all in details, details and details. This house shows it nicely. Thank you for the tour

[@pumper48]

Love seeing the Mezuzahs on the doors and the candle holders. Tells a story in itself.

[@jenniferfraser1854]

I noticed those too!

[@beverlygannon4141]

I wondered what they were. Thank you

[@Jacks_here]

I have never seen this kind of layout as every terrace I have ever visited have been modified so much that you could not guess what was before that. The ground floor is so interesting especially the front room with the one window at the back. There’s so many original features that this really is a treasure trove to someone who can appreciate it. Personally I would keep the layout as it is but possibly only swap the kitchen at the back. I can now see why so many of these houses are opened up as they can feel a bit gloomy but that’s really about right colour, lighting and decor.

[@merriemisfit8406]

I envision turning the current small kitchen into a laundry room, while converting that back room into a galley kitchen with a modest dining set at the back window. No big heavy kitchen islands or fancy 21st-Century equipment necessary. The current kitchen equipment looks quite satisfactory for most people to prepare practically anything they could possibly want to eat! I understand the electric stove in my current house, with top and bottom ovens, dates back to about 1970, and it is an absolute treasure.

[@beverlygannon4141]

Jack's here. This house is very light compared to my terraced house , .the other side of stoke Newington going Towards the Spurs ground . Tottenham,. A very humble house thru time,❤️🙏

[@susanhinchcliffe8048]

What a beautiful house

[@philiphema2678]

I love the compactness of this home creating a wonderful intimacy and with some tlc this perfect gem will shine for the next century. Thank you for sharing. Aloha from Hawai'i.

[@Dan-tp6hb]

The Victorians built well and beautifully. A pity the original mantels were replaced.

[@ericalbany]

Probably done as part of removing the coal grates.

[@Sophiad-Mikeyrankin]

This reminds me of my childhood home. Same build. There was no bathroom originally. We used to have a tin bath which my parents filled up on Sunday evenings for us all to bathe. My Dad fitted a bathroom in the Mid 60s. We had an outside toilet. Dad built a leetoo, so that we didn't have to go out on the cold. There were lots of original features. Thank you for sharing. ❤

[@gwenewing6837]

Spectacular! What a quaint, beautiful home.

[@marjoriemorse9229]

Just amazing. The privy in the back garden! I lived in a Victorian terrace in London for several years at the turn of the millennium which had been tastefully renovated, but I always wondered what it might have looked like in years past. Thank you for the tour of this lovely time capsule.

[@nigelcharlton-wright1747]

Nice little video. Hopefully this little gem will be restored with it's original room layout, windows and doors, which would imagine someone will buy and put new windows and doors, knock though the kitchen into the rear reception and bi-fold doors installed on the rear.

[@roybond5404]

I love this house, ❤ so full of character, ide bring it back only more so ❤❤❤❤❤

[@noodleperson17]

Millions of houses exactly like this all over the country. Not like the characterless boxes they fob on us now.

[@deetee7433]

Lovely video. Thanks for sharing. It brought back so many memories of my childhood. All those beautiful features. Very triggering for me to see the zimmer frames though.That person enjoyed happy times in their younger years in that home, until age prevented them. Reminds me of my dad

[@anneoo7929]

Thank you for this wonderful video ❤

[@anyaharris5617]

What a wonderful insight into history! I've lived in a similar house of my husband's grandparents, where everything was left as it was in the 1950s, it was beautiful. It was like living in a museum. However, life went on, and we needed modern appliances and comforts. So refurbishment took place, and a lot of things of that period (1950s it was) were changed and gone. Especially the bathroom plumbing and kitchen appliances. The house had an old Rayburner, which was still in good working condition, but of course, who would cook on it these days when ceramic hob cookers are available. I grew up with a gas cooker, so wasn't keen on keeping the Rayburn, but looking back now, I regret getting rid of it.

[@gaynorprice-jones1826]

I would always have a range if possible. Luckily I have an Aga, which I love!

[@anyaharris5617]

@gaynorprice-jones1826 I totally understand. But I grew up with a gas cooker, so wasn't keen on keeping the Rayburn. But looking back now I regret getting rid of it :(

[@anne-kristine120]

Thank you very much for this tour. Very interesting 🙏

[@mikamokamikamoka5311]

I think the simplicity of their life really hits me. All that they owned was kept in very good condition and used the whole of their lives, without keeping up with fashion at all! Fantastic

[@lockleaze]

The features remind me so much of the house where I grew up, in Eastville, Bristol, especially the ceiling features and the built-in cupboard and the fire places. The front of the house is the same too. Thanks for posting.

[@chromebaby]

Love that kitchen! 😍 Tough house to live if you’re very old but the lady was fit enough to the end to take on those all those stairs.

[@JayArgonauts]

What a lovely house and so many original fixtures and fittings which rarely survive.

[@vickijohnson4668]

I could quite happily live here, it is beautiful.

[@C.Hughes-Lloyd]

No, the 1950s.

[@vickijohnson4668]

@C.Hughes-Lloyd ????

[@BerigVintrange]

A very charming and cozy habitat, agree with several other commentors, I hope the buyer preserves all the charm. From Rochester, N.Y.

[@LindaPerry_337]

This looks nice and proper. ❤🙋‍♀️

[@redmi9834]

This brings back memories. I lived in a house in King's Road Bootle, Lancashire (now demolished) with the exact same design and interior lay-out.

[@anneflavell1259]

Beautiful home 🏠 theirs a lot of 1930art Decor and other period features from different 😊generations how lovely 🥰

[@jeanettechristoffersen1916]

Brings back memories of my childhood visiting Nanny in Fulham. This is a little bigger but the layout is the same.

[@urbsoapco5489]

Same layout as my Granny’s house in Babbacombe near Torquay. I loved family get together at her house and also her old house in Hampton Park in Bristol. We used to play “ Twister” before it was a thing on the carpet squares of different colours in her dining room.

[@griffin2263]

who ever owned it must have been related to my husband he hates to change anything .🤣🤣..so glad the house has so much charm

[@sharynkhan1104]

I'm watching this today 23/1/25 and I have seen house's that look more in keeping with the Victorian era than this one.

[@solangelauthier2381]

Indeed ! Groundfloor mouldings and fireplaces are 1920-30. Not many Victorian details, hence not interesting.

[@Jillski13]

What beautiful architectural details!

[@MargaretTrebing]

It must’ve been so hard getting that huge wardrobe up those narrow flights of stairs! I don’t envy whoever has to get it out again.

[@shadowdancer8572]

I bet there is more colours under that white paint... Lovely details, like the deer(?) figure on the door. 🤗

[@annasutton8078]

These houses are so lovely, so full of character.

[@luluandmeow]

I hope they'll keep the lovely pink bathroom suite. I regret replacing mine, which was lemon yellow and not so nice as pink. I also lived for 20 years with an aqua green bathroom suite with matching tiles.

[@markavis7232]

Looks alright. If the next person can be bothered to make secondary glazing to fit inside the beading on those sashes, you might even get it warm :-) I live in a similar semi in the north. You have to not mind painting woodwork, often.

[@blondeenigma3882]

So much potential. Needs a lot of vision and money spent on it but it's lovely.

[@sarahmariah100]

We just did a doll house bathroom exactly like this bathroom. I saw it in my head, and here it is.

[@MrTryxxter]

The cornicing & all the wee details on and around the doors are great, Even the later addition fireplaces are pretty cool too. Although noticed there was no central heating and a few electric heaters. Cold winters must've been difficult The back room on the ground floor didn't seem to be a later addition, and v much in keeping - do you think that was likely a bedroom back then?

[@historyofstokey3342]

South facing Morning Room for breakfast as far as I'm aware.

[@missmuffet3874]

It’s absolutely charming.

[@HRH.Wholly-Royal]

Wow! Mesmerising ❤❤

[@RhiannonFan]

Many thanks for shooting and posting this video. I grew up in a house very similar in design to this. A few notes: The current kitchen was very likely the 'pantry' originally, and the rearmost room would have been the kitchen. It's Interesting to see that the original outside toilet (in the back yard) is still there. Is there a basement at all? It would be great if the new owners were to respect the design, rather than ripping out the whole interior and replacing it with 'bland soulless Americana'.

[@Zoe-dr5ps]

Love it. Beautiful

[@juliegwilliam8503]

It's looks like a house on EastEnders! Beautifully kept!

[@hansfranklin5070]

A little TLC! A Gem in the rough! It's always disappointing to see fire places capped off!

[@combatduckie]

so cosy and beautiful...

[@lesleykirman7231]

It is a lovely old house. It needs some work to bring it up to date without losing the victorian style. I would re due the two rooms at the back to make a bigger kitchen. The opportunity to make a lovely home.

[@eattherich9215]

This house reminds me of the two that my late parents lived in south of the river. The cornicing and ceilingg rose in the front room is lovely. Undoubtedly the house needs modernisation, but I fear a developer with pound signs in their eyes will ruin it.

[@debrahmcshane977]

Lovely home still in its time. Thank you.

[@roomullan3050]

What a truly lovely house. I hope it’s next owner does not gut it

[@FaithingandPraying]

Reminds me of my Grandma's house when I was young, she lived in Willesden NW London, some houses in Harlesden are also similar

[@sawahtb]

The kitchen with a room in the back for a house keeper/cook is very Victorian. The Family lived upstairs.

[@ceciliarosenberg4874]

Oh so beautiful.

[@stevewilliams5183]

Lived in a house exactly like this in Winston Road

[@alisoncleeton877]

Love the various levels!

[@iainsan]

Strange that they converted the tiny scullery into the kitchen and the kitchen into an extra living room or dining room. Most houses like that have knocked those rooms into one. Some nice Victorian mouldings on the ceilings, but the front room fireplace was replaced in the 30s by the look of things. My house is almost exactly the same, but I have no steps down at the back like that.

[@PeterTylor]

@@iainsan We tend to like to treat the kitchen as a living space - "the heart of the home" - nowadays, but this has not always been the case, as witness the large number of 1930s semis that were originally built with a kitchen that was much smaller than either of the two reception rooms, and not really big enough to eat in. In view of this, it doesn't surprise me too much that, in the middle of the last century, some owners of earlier houses chose to configure them in this way. Indeed, I can think of a couple of examples in my local area. About five years ago, a late Victorian semi came up for sale, having been largely unaltered since about 1950. The original kitchen had evidently been used as a third reception room (it had the original quarry tiled floor, but an Art Deco living room type fireplace where the original cooking range would have been), and the original scullery had become the kitchen. A few years before this, I visited an ex-Council house from about 1920, where the original kitchen was used as a dining room (although there were still signs of old pipework where the sink would have been), whilst the original scullery - much too small to house the coal-fired range that such a house would certainly have had when first built - served as the tiniest of kitchens! As for the fireplaces in this house, although they are certainly Art Deco in style, I think they are probably 1950s rather than 1930s, as I have already explained in reply to another's comment.

[@iainsan]

@@PeterTylor Yes, that's very true.

[@Richaldis]

It looks very like the inside of my house, though my doors were painted to look like oak in 1901 when my house was built and I still have original fireplaces in all the rooms.

[@moragclark755]

It's a mishmash of styles and eras accrued around a Victorian shell but very enjoyable nonetheless.

[@jennytaylor3324]

I had no idea these humble houses had so much original detail. I've seen old corbels like the ones in the hall, but never an elegantly detailed ceiling in one. Much vandalism took place in the '60s and '70s. That fingerplate was beautiful, and seeing it painted made me wonder if it cold be brass underneath. I can't imagine looking at those features in any era and wanting to remove or conceal them. I wonder if the pelmet casings were added or original?...

[@ericalbany]

I would bet you the door plate was pressed iron with a copper plating to imitate bronze.

[@luluandmeow]

The current obsession with massive kitchen is absolutely ridiculous. I love small-medium kitchen, some of the best cooks in my family (grandmothers, aunties) worked from tiny kitchens like this one. My mother (a useless cook) insisted on a huge kitchen.

[@evypeace03]

Lovely bones! Rip out carpet(s), refinish floors, freshly paint walls (hues of soft blue, pale yellow, etc), new appliances, fixtures, furniture, drapes and good to go!

[@doktoruzo]

would need about £100k - £150k spending to bring upto modern standard.

[@martshi6938]

House with a soul…❤

[@JW-yt7lr]

Possibly one of the saddest things I've ever seen on KZbin . The history of a life lived but no more .

[@roberthancox]

What a beautiful home! Just needs some TLC.

[@jenniferfraser1854]

I am from Canada and of course the "backsplit" or "sidesplit" type of house is common here. I have never seen a backsplit style house in Britain. I had lot of family there at one point, but I have never seen one with a few step down and a few steps up. Is it uncommon for this time period of home or are there lots more like it?

[@john_smith1471]

@jenniferfraser1854: Yes, I’ve noticed this house arrangement in London only, these properties were intended for professionals/middle class, I suspect the rear lower sitting room & scullery kitchen was for a domestic servant, I’ve noticed in census returns domestic servants were numerous, usually age 15-20 yrs, female and from another part of Britain, a sort of non aristocratic Upstairs Downstairs, at least the external brickwork hasn’t been painted or rendered unlike the neighbours.

[@jenniferfraser1854]

@@john_smith1471 I was wondering if it was a servant thing. Very often the larger Canadian homes built in the Victorian/Edwardian era when there were servants aplenty had quarters that were set apart by the stairs. I remember one home I worked in had a full servants' quarters on the third floor (two large rooms and a bath) with a servants' staircase off the main staircase. But just off the first landing of the servants' staircase was an odd little room with a sink. It was the nanny's room. It was placed there within hearing of any children who needed attention in the middle of the night. The nanny was on a higher plane than the household servants. The same thing occurred in a much grander home in the same town, but this time the nanny and nursery were on the same floor as the parents, but through a door "on the other side" which was near the servants' stairs to the third floor yet set apart from them as befitting the status of the nanny and nursery. I have never seen such a small compact little arrangement as the one you filmed here. Fascinating!

[@andysnashall6140]

Lovely house, but more 30’s than Victorian. Needs some cast iron and tile fireplaces.

[@Jettypilelegs]

Is there going to be a part 2 of the upstairs? Loved this

[@historyofstokey3342]

The video covers all the rooms in the house including the bedrooms upstairs.

[@Jettypilelegs]

@ ha ha I must have encroaching dementia, I’m pretty old 😂

[@marvinadarby8212]

What is the angled piece of wood on the door frames ? Thanks

[@seasmacfarlane6418]

It's called a Mezuzah, and it's a little container for a parchment inscribed with texts or prayers, and is part of the Jewish religion. I lived in a house that had them, when I lived in Forest Gate, many years ago.

[@PeterTylor]

​​@@seasmacfarlane6418 I remember learning about these in Religious Studies at school many years ago, although the picture of one that I recall from back then showed an ornate 19th century example. Thus, had I not seen one of the earlier comments which refers to the faith of the former occupant, I would have taken these much plainer ones to be some kind of random defunct fixture that had once served a mysterious although perhaps quite mundane purpose.

[@susandamico3184]

How many layers of paint?

[@voodle50]

You don't realise just how small these houses are.

[@lesliesmith9155]

Love to see the old home b 4 money bags turn it in to a cash box 😢

[@francescampion5298]

Reminds me of my Nan & Grandads house in the 1960 s Kentish Town, North London, they were pulled down by the Labour council and ugly blocks of flats built, those houses would of been worth a fortune now.

[@andrewscrazy]

Is that a Mezuzah on the side of the doors?

[@historyofstokey3342]

yes.

[@pegapage9603]

It's still January 24th. How did you do this? Time travel?

[@historyofstokey3342]

shhhhh!! don't tell anyone!! ;)

[@beverlygannon4141]

A house thru time as they say. This hoise l ets lot if light in . Mine dont its terraced not as big as this.. im other side of stoke Newington. Going towards Spurs football ground london... There were lovely features. Sad to watch❤️🙏

[@mickey_moone]

We're Stoked! It could be 221 B Baker Street.

[@andrewscrazy]

Was that a Mezuzah on the side of the front door?

[@historyofstokey3342]

yes.

[@jeannemillsom9300]

It has been spoiled by the 1950s Barry Bucknell type DIY.

[@eattherich9215]

I recently watched a BBC archive documentary about the DIY movement of the 1960s. A lot of lovely features were covered over with plywood because they were deemed UGLY.

[@john_smith1471]

Unlike the Bucknell house, the original internal doors still on show, & haven’t been covered with hardboard.

[@BusWill2006]

Would be a lovely project. Hope someone doesn’t gut renovate and destroy the character. It needs some character putting back in.

[@englishmadcow7461]

Our similar on Downsell Rd worth a million 🤯

[@jeniallenby8389]

wow

[@kathleentx5254]

Neat as a pin.❤

[@Steven-f281]

I'm guessing the owner has passed away or gone in to care . It's obvious the house was loved and hopefully the new owner will respect its past and not modernise it to much

[@C.Hughes-Lloyd]

You obviously didn't read the description.

[@Steven-f281]

@C.Hughes-Lloyd oops my bad