In limited supply: modern Maida Vale townhouses for sale on former petrol station site by award-winning architect Terry Farrell

The townhouses at Lyons Place are a project by award-winning architect Sir Terry Farrell.

Rare: modern-design new homes in Maida Vale

David Spittles1 October 2018

Modern-design new houses in Maida Vale are rare, so a project by award-winning architect Sir Terry Farrell, whose HQ and home are in a former Spitfire factory off Lisson Grove, will interest many home buyers.

Lyons Place is the follow-on project of developer Almacantar from its conversion of Centre Point tower at Tottenham Court Road into snazzy flats.

Resourcefully built on the site of a petrol station, Farrells has designed five beautifully crafted three-storey townhouses with patio gardens and terraces, plus a sleek block of 24 private apartments and 47 affordable homes.

Prices from £795,000 Call 020 7535 2900.

From £795,000: new homes at Lyons Place

This patch is different from the Maida Vale heartland of wide boulevards, neat mansion blocks and cream-coloured terraces.

Council estates, a bustling street market and the industrial legacy of Regent’s Canal have set the tone where property prices have lagged behind the general area for decades.

Now Westminster council has unveiled a £1.2 billion regeneration plan for the Church Street ward.

As part of the project the council has pledged to favour art and antiques businesses, with the aim of making the market a rival to Portobello Road.

Already Alfies Antiques, formerly Jordan’s department store, is London’s largest indoor emporium with more than 200 stallholders specialising in 20th-century art and collectables.

Lisson Gallery is a long-established avant-garde presence, while Subway Gallery is housed in a Sixties kiosk in an underpass below Marylebone Road.

Bounded by St John’s Wood, Regent’s Park, Little Venice and Primrose Hill, this pocket of Westminster borough is arguably the best-value address in Zone 1.

On the other side of Edgware Road, a police station has been closed down and the land will be a new housing development called West End Gate.

Berkeley Homes says this new 672-home project’s architecture is inspired by Maida Vale’s handsome mansion blocks.

Prices from £855,000 to £1,655,000. Call 020 3411 4513.