Loft Apartment, Gaol Ferry Steps

Wapping Wharf has become the part of the harbour people actually want to live in rather than just visit on a Saturday. This is a genuine loft within one of the older brick buildings, double height across the main living space, with a steel staircase up to a mezzanine that most owners use as a study or a spare room.

The brick and the original columns have been left exposed, the kitchen is tucked along one wall, and the windows run high enough to throw light right to the back. Two bedrooms sit either side for privacy, each with a bathroom, and there is a secure parking space in the undercroft, which on the harbour is close to gold dust.

Cargo, the independent restaurants and the M Shed are a two-minute walk, the SS Great Britain not much further, and you can be in the centre on foot in ten minutes without crossing a main road. It is leasehold with a long lease and a share of the management company, and it would suit a professional couple or a buyer who wants the city at the door.