14 Larchmont Terrace

Larchmont Terrace was laid out in the 1830s for merchants who wanted to walk to the Old Town, and number 14 keeps the best of that ambition: a front door at the top of a stone stair, ceilings that let the sash windows run nearly to the floor, and rooms that open into one another without feeling like corridors.

The ground floor works the way a family wants it to. A sitting room at the front, a dining room that takes a table for ten, and behind it a kitchen with deep green cabinetry, a stone island and glazed doors to the garden. The garden is walled, paved in reclaimed stone, and planted for the evening: jasmine, lavender and an olive that has outgrown its pot.

Upstairs are four bedrooms across two floors, the principal with a dressing room and a bathroom with a freestanding bath. There is a utility room in the cellar and, rarely for the street, a boot room by the back door.