Two-bed flat in former London Telephone Exchange building on sale for £1.75million

Not dangerous (Image: Aston Chase)

Fancy residing in a bit of London’s historical past? Nicely, in case your pockets are £1,750,000 deep, you possibly can.

A 1,321 sq ft two-bed condominium within the former London Phone Change constructing has hit the market.

Located on the primary ground of the Yoo Constructing at 17 Corridor Highway in St John’s Wooden, the flat is newly refurbished with a recent design however has retained interval options corresponding to massive ground plates, excessive ceilings and attention-grabbing function home windows.

The then-new London Phone Change was opened in 1937, enabling a lot of phone calls to be reliably linked between London, the remainder of the UK and international locations world wide.

This trade additionally allowed Londoners to have the ability to make emergency 999 requires the primary time.

Whereas the phone was invented in 1870, bigger volumes of calls involving a number of callers couldn’t be made till the event of phone exchanges 9 years later.

The very roomy kitchen (Image: Aston Chase)

Not brief on house (Image: Aston Chase)

The open-plan residing/eating space (Image: Aston Chase)

Beneath the life-style model YOO, the Phone Change was renamed the Yoo Constructing and transformed into massive flats in 2001 by property entrepreneur John Hitchcock and French industrial architect Philippe Starck.

Full with two mezzanine flooring the place you’ll discover the bedrooms, the condominium on the market boasts a big 31 ft reception room that options large double-height ceilings, coffered ceilings with LED lighting and a triple sequence of floor-to-ceiling angled home windows and an adjoining open-plan kitchen.

Craig Draper, affiliate director of Aston Chase, the property brokers managing the sale of the property, mentioned: ‘Inside this extremely spacious condominium there are touches of Artwork Deco model and early modernism, complemented by the high-quality marble work within the bogs and the putting up to date kitchen.’

Easy however very efficient (Image: Aston Chase)

Not brief on marble both (Image: Aston Chase)

There’s a deep angled bay window within the principal bed room, which additionally has an en-suite, and geometric plasterwork Artwork Deco on the ceiling within the eating space.

The totally fitted kitchen is full with daring metal kitchen items and worktops and a marble island.

The bogs additionally echo that marble motif, and also you’ll discover engineered timber wooden flooring elsewhere within the flat.

Intriguing (Image: Aston Chase)

What do you consider the place? (Image: Aston Chase)

Mark Pollack, co-founding director of Aston Chase mentioned: ‘This historic Nineteen Thirties telecoms constructing helped to make the UK’s first-ever 999 calls doable and was the London hub the place phone calls have been positioned between Britain and its Commonwealth dominions.

‘Model and historical past meet on this spacious trendy condominium which is positioned equidistant between St John’s Wooden and Maida Vale.’

The condominium additionally comes with personal automobile parking house and 24-hour porterage.

It’s just some minute’s stroll away from the cafés and eating places of Clifton Highway in Little Venice, and 0.5 miles away from St John’s Wooden Station and 0.3 miles away from Maida Vale Station.