Once a 19th-century grain store, this clever two-bedroom house sits on a quiet street in central Whitstable, a short walk from the town’s celebrated shingle beaches. The building has a handsome stock brick façade punctuated by slate-grey window frames and doors. Within, pared-back interiors lay focus on the home’s historic bones and a living space of impressive proportions - a space suited to both entertaining and everyday needs.

Famous for oyster farming as far back as Roman times, Whitstable is a pretty working coastal town. With beaches and an ever-expanding array of good pubs, cafés and restaurants, Whitstable has become an increasingly popular Kentish destination. Sweet uniform Victorian terraces and romantic clapperboard cottages make up much of its vernacular. In the northern part of Kent's coast, it also has great rail connections to London via Whitstable station.

The Old Grain Store is an exemplary conversion that encapsulates the building's 19th-century origins, once serving as a wholesale store supplying local bakeries. Original features have been preserved and carefully treated; white-painted beams span overhead, while floorboards and staircase treads have been stained in Farrow & Ball's 'Railings', beautifully complementing the pared-back walls.