Thoughts on these properties in Worcester Park?

[Mumlondon12]

I love these two properties in Worcester park - one is a detached house with a great garden and the other has my dream walk in wardrobe and a beautiful pantry - so confused between the two! Thoughts anyone who has lived in the area and can share insights on which one might be better? We are a family of three with a little one due to start school soon and both of us commute into London for work.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/159714725

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/158557979

Number 2 - would the garden suffer from road noise from yellow road?

I certainly used to use the 2nd road as a cut through to avoid the traffic lights at the Cheam crossroads. I can't definitely say if you still can

As someone who grew up scant roads away from Kingsmead, I would definitely pick it over Salisbury - not because it’s not a great location but because turning out onto the main road by Worcester park station was a damn nightmare when I was growing up there 25 years ago!
Kingsmead was always a beautiful road, quiet and leafy and across the yellow road is Nonsuch Park. Yes the road is busy but much nicer (I’d say) than the main road leading off from WP station.
i may be wrong but pretty sure Kingsmead will fall into Sutton borough and Salisbury may fall into Kingston-upon-Thames borough if either of those are concerns from a school district perspective (although both have excellent schools).
I also prefer an older home that’s been maintained well over a newer build like the Salisbury one (and you can always create a luxury walk in wardrobe in the Kingsmead home).

From the locations, I'd take the first house, The second is too near North Cheam for my liking.

Number 2 if you can afford it. It's detached and closer to amenities including a Spoons!

Both are a quite a distance if walking to station?

I don’t know the area so this is purely on the houses.

House 1
Pros

1. bedroom sizes are amazing and lots of storage
2. standard of work appears to be very high - move in ready.
3. Road looks attractive from street view.
4. personally I don’t love the layout as it’s too generic these days and I don’t love open plan downstairs, but lots of people love it
5. fab kitchen

cons

1. garden is very bog standard for £1.3m
2. semi detached - was never a problem for us but now we’re in a detached, it is good to not have to worry about neighbours in the same way.

house 2
pros

1. wow, what a garden
2. detached

cons

1. not decorated particularly nicely
2. house hasn’t got curb appeal imo
3. road looks grotty on street view
4. room sizes appear to be a lot smaller than house 1
5. big gardens = big work to maintain, it’s too big for me!

Personally, I would opt for house 1. I don’t think the detached status outweighs the space you get with house 1. And with TLC you could still make house 1 garden beautiful- bigger isn’t always better!

The first one is really three bedrooms, with a room downstairs, with shower room, plus a top floor extension.

Semi detached, no garage, but off road parking.

Number 2 is a more usual layout, but I agree about kerb appeal. Detached though.

I know the area well.
Sailsbury one is minutes from 2 primary schools & parks with a doctor surgery about 2 mins away too. It’s easy to take back streets out to A3 etc, if required, at rush hour. Located in the borough of Epsom & Ewell. Much easier walk to the station & also Malden Manor Station is easily accessible and although further, you can park close by free or pay around £4/day for parking. That train is much quieter & pretty much guaranteed a seat in the morning. WP train v busy in rush hour.
the Kingsmead one further from station, up a hill & v difficult to drive anywhere in the morning due to traffic and being on the other side of the station.
However for that budget I’d want detached.

Also suggest you look closely at catchments for secondary, there are some black holes in Worcester Park.

I don’t know the area but love house one

what’s a principle suit though?

They're both nice.

I prefer the style of house 2 but I don't know the area very well.

I don't think the photos for house 2 are recent though. That garden is not an early Spring/end of Winter garden. The trees are all in full leaf and the plants very green. Those photos look to have been taken in late Summer. Why's it been on the market so long?

Thanks for the tip! What are the black holes do you know?! @PrimeLocation

This is super helpful @SunnySideDeepDown Thank you! I share the same views about the open plan kitchen and that's why was leaning towards option 2 since it has a separate kitchen. Agree regarding the room sizes though!

With your budget you could get a lovely house in Ewell village, easy walk to Ewell West station.

If you’re not in love with either, keep searching. With over a million in your pocket, I wouldn’t settle.

Weve recently moved into our dream home. We had to compromise in areas (our budget was half of yours!) but I loved it the moment I stepped foot in it. Like, really loved it. Loved its bones.

I don’t think either house is right for you given what you’ve said.

I live locally and the position of house 1 is much nicer, Stoneleigh is much more desirable than those north cheam/Worcester park roads I would say. North cheam high street where macdonalds is is not somewhere I would want to live by. Worcester park high street gets awful traffic too!

the other side of nonsuch park is much nicer.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/159206609

I’m not an expert but I think round house 1 may be an issue. Definitely check local schools.

also agree with both posters re bad traffic on both areas - why Worcester Park? Do you have particular links?

We were initially looking at Raynes Park and lower Morden too but we are getting more house for our money in Worcester Park! Also the area felt nice when we walked around. Any thoughts?

Did you mean house 2 since house 1 is actually closer to the Worcester park high street?

Thank you! This is lovely but further out and we both travel 3-4 days a week into London so don't want to extend our commute by that much!

I know the area around house 1 well & it’s a lovely area. Easy to walk to the High St & traffic isn’t an issue as there are multiple short cuts which avoid the Malden Road unless you are actually heading to North Cheam. You can get to the A3 easily from there without heading up to Worcester Park.
The second house would face much more traffic as it’s on the other side of the bridge/railway line and so you have to go under the bridge to head towards the A3.
Both Worcester Park and Malden Manor Stations are easily accessible from Salisbury Road & in Travel Zone 4. The difference in taking the Malden Manor Train is huge as it only comes from Chessington and has plenty of seats available. Whereas the Worcester Park trains come from Guildford and Dorking and are much busier.

It would be house 2 for me.
It feels cozier and has more personality.
House 1 is immaculate, but looks very cold and clinical. I'm also not a far of the kitchen living space with the open frontage. To me it comes across very warehouse-y.
I'd think about it as "which house would I love to cozy up in on a cold winters evening?" And it would be 2 all the way.

Nope I live closer to yellow road (garden backs onto house onto it) and doesn’t bother us. DD is sunbathing out there now.

House 1 is a bit of a black hole for High Schools definitely - 2 is much better for that