Here is a Picture of the Week which we are in a state of swoon about.

It has never been on the open sales market since being built in 1886, and to say it has original features is something of an under-statement.

Check out the contents of the larder (picture 10) and the utterly splendid loo which presumably dates from when Victoria was on the, er, throne (17 and 18).

A probate sale, the family started to rent the house in 1936 and eventually purchased the house directly from the builder in 1948.

Sadly the owner has now passed away and the estate is selling the house which is not only pretty much in original condition but has a 140 ft rear garden – very unusual for a London home.

It has a price tag of £1.9m. In 1948, 68 years ago, it sold for £1,250.

Agent Sean Porter, of Porters Estate Agents, says that the original owner of the property not only built it but lived in it.

We can only offer up our fervent hope that the buyer will not make too many “improvements” to this gem