A residential street of tall houses running downhill, cars parked along the kerb and overhead tram wires above the middle of the road.

Aldergate Row · 06:41 · light from the east

We photograph the street first.

Every agency shoots the kitchen. We shoot the corner you turn, the bridge you cross and the light on the road at four o’clock — because that is the part you actually live in.

Every listing: Street, approach, door, rooms
Shot at: First light & dusk
Walk-times: Measured on foot
Coverage: Four streets, one district

The four streets on this page

Aldergate Row
NG1 · 8 min to Aldergate station
Fenn Row
NG1 · 11 min to Aldergate station
Marle Hill
NG3 · 14 min to Quarry Lane halt
Quarry Lane
NG3 · 6 min to Quarry Lane halt

Plate 01 / 02 · the same house

Both of these are the house.

A fitted kitchen with dark wood cabinets, a granite island and bar stools, lit by pendant lights. — What the listing shows. The room, lit and arranged, and nothing of the road outside it.

The front of a rendered terrace: a green-painted door, a shuttered window and two bicycles leaning against the wall above a cobbled pavement. — What you would walk past every morning. The door, the bikes, the pavement, exactly as found.

One of those photographs was arranged for you. The other was simply there. We publish both, in that order, and we caption the hour so you can tell which light you are being shown.

Route 01 · Fenn Row to Quarry Lane

Eight minutes, photographed in three.

We walk every route ourselves and time it on foot, in the weather it was walked in. The times below are the walk, not a straight line drawn across a map.

A road curving toward a blue steel railway bridge, with a hoarding covered in flyposters along one side and brick railway arches behind it. — Fenn Row to the bridge

The gable end of a brick house on a residential road, with a bus shelter, a timetable board, a post box and a clipped hedge in front of it. — The shelter on Marle Hill

An ornate iron gate between stone piers, with bare trees and fallen leaves on both sides of the path. — Quarry Lane park gate

Streets, times and addresses on this page are invented — see the note in the footer.

Currently on our books

Four houses, photographed from the pavement.

A terrace of pastel-painted houses with bay windows and steps up to their front doors, behind low brick garden walls.

14 Aldergate Row

£412,000

Type: Victorian mid-terrace
Bedrooms: 3
Tenure: Freehold
EPC: D
Walk to station: 8 min

Shot 07:10, east light along the row

A narrow street of tall old houses and shopfronts with hanging signs, seen looking up between the buildings.

2 Fenn Row

£355,000

Type: End-terrace
Bedrooms: 2
Tenure: Freehold
EPC: C
Walk to station: 11 min

Shot 16:40, looking up the row

A brick mill frontage with tall arched multi-pane windows across two storeys.

Unit 5, Marle Hill Mill

£298,000

Type: Warehouse conversion
Bedrooms: 1
Tenure: Leasehold, 112 years
EPC: B
Walk to halt: 14 min

Shot 08:25, north elevation

A red-brick house with a white garage door, a clipped hedge and a lawn running down to the road.

41 Quarry Lane

£529,000

Type: Semi-detached
Bedrooms: 4
Tenure: Freehold
EPC: C
Walk to halt: 6 min

Shot 17:55, from the far kerb

Contact sheet · one frame, three answers

A close crop of the right-hand side of the same street photograph. — What the listing shows

A close crop of the near kerb of the same street photograph. — What you would walk

A close crop of the far end of the same street photograph. — What is at the end of it

Three rules, and we do not bend them.

They are the whole difference between a listing and a record of a place, and they are the reason a NORTHGATE listing takes two visits instead of one.

01We walk it before we shoot itThe route to the door is walked once without a camera, at the hour a buyer would actually arrive.
02We photograph the approach firstStreet, corner, threshold, then the rooms — in the order you would meet them, and we caption the hour each frame was taken.
03We publish what we foundThe bins, the bridge, the bus shelter and the junction go in the listing. If the walk is unpleasant, that is in there too.

A front door seen from inside a hallway, with a lit chandelier above, a staircase and a turned banister beside it.

Then you walk back to it in the dark.

We shoot every listing twice — once at first light, once after the lamps come on. Book a walk-through and we will meet you at either.

The standing list

What goes in every listing, without being asked.

The street: A frame of the road the house sits on, taken from the pavement, in the light it was taken in.
The approach: The walk from the nearest stop or station, photographed at the points where it turns.
The junction: Whatever the road meets at the end — a main road, a bridge, a park gate, a retail park.
The Tuesday detail: The bins, the parking, the scaffolding, the thing you would notice on an ordinary morning.
The hour: Every frame captioned with the time it was taken, so you know which light you are shown.
The walk, timed: Timed on foot by the person who walked it — never a straight line drawn across a map.

And what we will not do: no wide-angle lens pretending a room is bigger than it is, no photograph taken on the one clear morning in a fortnight without saying so, and no listing that shows you the kitchen and nothing of the road you would reach it by.

Enquire

Book a walk-through.

We will meet you at the end of the road rather than at the door, and walk in the way you would walk in.

Office: TBD
Telephone: TBD
Walk-throughs: First light & dusk