Boris and Carrie Johnson have put their South London townhouse up for sale for £1.6m through local agents Davis & Gibbs.

The couple bought the four-bedroom Victorian semi in Camberwell for £1.2m in July 2019 as Johnson became Prime Minister.

Although the couple have never lived in the property it is understood to have been being renovated since the start of the year.

The property occupies 2,100 square feet and Davis & Gibb Estate Agents describe it as ‘beautiful’ and ‘offering an abundance of character’ in a ‘sought-after’ Myatts Field area.

“The property is finished ‘to an excellent standard throughout, tasteful décor and retains many characteristics including shutters, wooden floors and low level cast iron radiators.”

It overlooks a park about a mile from the £675,000 flat the Johnsons previously shared.

It is understood they had been looking to rent out the three-storey red brick home in Camberwell for up to £4,000 a month.

DECORATORS

A neighbour of the South London property says: “The decorators were in earlier this year and from what we could see they must have spent at least £50,000 on the place.”

It is not known where Mr and Mrs Johnson and their two children, Wilfred, two, and Romy, seven months, will live when they leave Downing Street next month.

However reports says they have been looking for property in the Herne Hill area of London. They also have another £1.2million, four-bed detached house in Thame, Oxfordshire.

The Johnsons decorated their Downing Street flat with gold wallpaper from designer Lulu Lytle, co-founder of Soane Britain, in a £112,000 refurbishment.

Only earlier this year the prime minister announced a raft of proposals aimed at driving up homeownership and moving social housing tenants from ‘benefits to bricks’.

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are both in the run-off for the top job with the result being announced on 5th September.

David & Gibbs have been approached for comment.