See inside this £2.5m converted former convent mews in Streatham

Henry Tate Mews is part of the former mansion in Streatham, south west London, that belonged to the sugar merchant in the late 1800s.

The house was converted to St Michael's Convent in 1923.

The four-bedroom semi-detached house, which is on the market with Purple Bricks, has shared access to the beautiful six acres of private landscaped gardens that include an orchard, folly and a listed grotto.

The property also features an indoor swimming pool, a dining room, kitchen and breakfast room and two reception rooms.

It is situated at the top of Streatham Common North, across the open spaces of Streatham Common and wooded walks of The Rookery.

Sir Henry Tate was an industrialist who made his money as a sugar refiner.

In 1889 he donated his collection of 65 contemporary paintings to the government, on the condition that they be displayed in a suitable gallery, toward the construction of which he also donated £80,000.

The National Gallery of British Art, nowadays known as Tate Britain, was opened on July 21 1897, on the site of the old Millbank Prison.

After his death, in the 1920s, his sugar company Henry Tate & Sons merged with Abram Lyle & Sons to become Tate & Lyle.

After his death his home became a convent until 2000 when it was redeveloped into housing.

Take a look inside the converted former convent mews home.

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