In the 19th and early 20th centuries, keyboards were big business in Kentish Town, London – so much so, that in 1901 The Piano Journal described the area as “that healthful suburb dear to the heart of the piano maker.”

This amazing loft apartment can be found on the first floor of the former Alison Piano Factory on Charlton Kings Road, NW5.

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£824,950, 3-bed apartment, Charlton Kings Road, Kentish Town, NW5, Goldschmidt & Howland (Tel:0843 2811 641)

It was designed by architectural enfant terrible Piers Gough who, apparently, drew his inspiration for the interior from the curved lines of a grand piano (check the floor plans and it makes sense).

The highlights include timber floors, beamed double-height ceilings, tiled support columns decorated with dragons, antique hospital radiators and large industrial windows.

It’s warm, woody, and very cosy looking, but it’s roomy too: three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a funky open-plan living space that looks made for partying.

If you could put this place to music it would definitely be more Boogie Woogie than Beethoven, with maybe a dash of Theolonious Monk thrown in for good measure.

It definitely tickles our ivories: we like!

£824,950, 3-bed apartment, Charlton Kings Road, Kentish Town, NW5, Goldschmidt & Howland (Tel:0843 2811 641)

£824,950, 3-bed apartment, Charlton Kings Road, Kentish Town, NW5, Goldschmidt & Howland (Tel:0843 2811 641)

£824,950, 3-bed apartment, Charlton Kings Road, Kentish Town, NW5, Goldschmidt & Howland (Tel:0843 2811 641)

£824,950, 3-bed apartment, Charlton Kings Road, Kentish Town, NW5, Goldschmidt & Howland (Tel:0843 2811 641)

£824,950, 3-bed apartment, Charlton Kings Road, Kentish Town, NW5, Goldschmidt & Howland (Tel:0843 2811 641)

£824,950, 3-bed apartment, Charlton Kings Road, Kentish Town, NW5, Goldschmidt & Howland (Tel:0843 2811 641)

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