'The most beautiful house for sale in London' is a six-bedroom home with a walled garden that backs on to Greenwich Park
Will Hosie takes a look at Crooms Hill — and immediately starts figuring out how to raise three million pounds.
The English vocabulary is often touted as one of the world’s richest. Yet we still have no word for the feeling of walking into another’s home and realising, to our horror, that we’ve wrongly decorated ours. ‘Regret’ doesn’t quite cover it. ‘Interior envy’ is too limiting. The feeling, to those who’ve experienced it, runs deeper: let’s call it aesthetic inferiority syndrome. Anyway, it’s something I experience each time I consult the website for Inigo (so, daily), a boutique estate agency specialising in the sale of historic homes.
The agency is named after Inigo Jones — the early-modern architect who became one of Britain’s first proponents of Vitruvian principles of strength, utility, beauty — and they're one of the agencies who editorialise their portfolios remarkably well. As in all portfolios, however, there are showstoppers and showstoppers. On sale with Inigo is a six-bedroom, Grade II-listed house on Crooms Hill in Greenwich Park, which is indisputably one of the latter. It’s probably the most beautiful house on sale in London at the time of writing; the asking price is £2.975 million.
The beauty starts before you even step through the door, with (please be sitting down) a walled garden boasting hibiscus, wisteria, peonies and an orchard. Add to that sash windows, pediments and an interior restoration by Matt Whittle, the man behind many of the Huguenot restorations in Spitalfields, and the picture of a perfect London house begins to emerge.
The owners, who oversaw the restoration, commissioned artist Ian Harper to paint wood grain onto the front door, as would have been done in the 18th century. There are Delft tiles in the new DeVol kitchen. Be still, my beating heart. The surroundings are just as impressive as the interiors — Pevsner once described Crooms Hill as ‘the pride of domestic architecture in Greenwich’.
A stone’s throw from the National Maritime Museum (where, coincidentally, Inigo Jones's most famous portrait hangs) and Queen’s House, and four doors down from the Greenwich Theatre, the house backs directly onto the park, one of London’s most elegant green spaces (182 acres that is home to wildflower meadows and more than 70 species of bird).
Across the river towers Canary Wharf, about 22 minutes away on the DLR. The Thameslink connects Greenwich to London Bridge in eight minutes and, beyond that, to Blackfriars, where the District Line ushers you into the West End. It’s also less than 20 minutes by car to London City Airport.
Could it be yours, then? No, no, hands off: it’s mine.
For sale at £2,975,000 via Inigo — see more pictures and details.
This feature originally appeared in the February 4, 2026, issue of Country Life. Click here for more information on how to subscribe.
