Bay-Fronted House, Berkeley Road

This is the house most people picture when they say they want to live in Bishopston. A bay-fronted Victorian terrace on a quiet residential road, close enough to Gloucester Road to walk for a coffee and far enough back that you do not hear it.

The current owners have done the work that usually puts buyers off. The kitchen has been opened into the dining room across the back of the house, with doors onto the garden, and there is a second bathroom upstairs as well as a downstairs loo. The front reception keeps its fireplace and the deep bay, so the period feel is still there where it matters.

Three bedrooms sit on the first floor. The garden is paved and planted for people who would rather be at the allotment than mowing. Bishop Road primary, the bakeries and bars of Gloucester Road and the buses into town are all on the doorstep, which is exactly why these houses rarely sit around.