North London is a funny old bird, famed for its snobbish contempt of South London and for posh Georgian and Victorian neighbourhoods. Yet despite that reputation built over years of solid practice, she has a knack for taking whatever property culture comes along and making it her own.
Probably home to most of London's contemporary additions to period houses, and as well to most of the best new build in the capital, North London contains some of the city's most ground-breaking, and indeed earliest, lofts (although it must be said the concentration lies within the N1 postcode, with Islington always an anomaly among its N-eighbours, vastly more open and infinitely more alive).
N1's border with London's loft royalty, Shoreditch and Clerkenwell, is a major player in its quota – with even ultra-Shoreditchy hangout Hoxton Square part of the postcode. But let's not forget that rich industrial swathe that arcs around the city fringe to take in former grimy wastelands like Pentonville, Holloway and Kings Cross with their rich pickings of disused factories and warehouses, now firm fixtures in London's loft catalogue.
Probably home to most of London's contemporary additions to period houses, and as well to most of the best new build in the capital, North London contains some of the city's most ground-breaking, and indeed earliest, lofts (although it must be said the concentration lies within the N1 postcode, with Islington always an anomaly among its N-eighbours, vastly more open and infinitely more alive).
N1's border with London's loft royalty, Shoreditch and Clerkenwell, is a major player in its quota – with even ultra-Shoreditchy hangout Hoxton Square part of the postcode. But let's not forget that rich industrial swathe that arcs around the city fringe to take in former grimy wastelands like Pentonville, Holloway and Kings Cross with their rich pickings of disused factories and warehouses, now firm fixtures in London's loft catalogue.