Elegance

This row of elegant houses are on Church Row in Chislehurst, Kent.

These three storey yellow brick houses with double bay windows were built in 1850. Their architecture is early Georgian not in the exoected mid'-Victorian style .Numbers 16-19 which can be seen in the foreground of my photo are Grade 11 listed.

They are opposite a wood which is part of the Chislehurst Commons area and in a conservation area. Next to the first house in my picture is the churchyard of St Nicholas Church.

Apparently this is the highest part of Chislehurst but at one time the houses in Church Row had their own deep wells. In 1857 they provided the water to save the church from a fire.

Elegance in a conservation area comes at a high monetary price and one of these beautiful houses would be a few millions. Number 16 , a terraced house, sold for £1.8 million in 2003. Today's estimated value is £3.7m.