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Leicester Road, Wanstead

PROPERTY TYPE

Semi-Detached

BEDROOMS

8

BATHROOMS

1

SIZE

3,375 sq ft

314 sq m

TENURE
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Freehold

Key features

  • Double fronted period property
  • Located in Wanstead’s highly sought after ‘Counties Estate’
  • Approximately 3,375 square feet of accommodation over four floors
  • Eight double bedrooms
  • Kitchen with pantry/utility room
  • Downstairs W.C
  • Generous rooms throughout
  • In need of updating
  • Wide driveway
  • Potential to further re-configure and extend (STPC)

Description

In need of some modernisation, this double fronted period home offers 3,375 square feet of accommodation over four floors. Located in the prestigious Counties Estate, this eight double bedroom period home offers incredible potential and further potential to extend (STPC).

The prestigious and highly sought after 'Counties Estate' is renowned for its characterful homes and peaceful setting within a conservation setting, and yet is within easy reach of all Wanstead's amenities including Snaresbrook and Wanstead stations (0.6 and 0.5 miles respectively) and vibrant High Street (0.4 miles) with its fantastic array of shops, cafes, and bars.

The home begins on approach with a beautiful double fronted façade, wide driveway and ornate, open porch. you enter the home via a central doorway into wide entrance hall, with two large receptions of approximately 20ft in depth either side; both of which retain high skirting, decorative central fireplaces and ornate plasterwork. Descending a short flight of stairs you gain access to a rear room overlooking the rear garden which is currently utilised as a sizeable study, and a contemporary kitchen leading to two further rooms offering pantry storage, utility space, downstairs W.C. There is opportunity to reconfigure the current layout by way of ground floor extension to create an amazing live-in family kitchen. Heading down yet another level you reach the basement floor offering a further two huge rooms of around 20ft in depth, one of which is currently used as a cinema room with lighting, electrics and bespoke fitted storage.

The first floor provides four double bedrooms - two smaller doubles and two exceptionally spacious larger double bedrooms. There is also a generous family bathroom with handy, additional W.C immediately outside. The second floor provides another four double bedrooms which again could be retained or re-imagined as a substantial master suite with dressing room and en-suite. There is also ample storage on this floor. The rear garden is mostly laid to lawn with a patio immediately outside offering entertaining space, with handy side access allowing for the easy removal of garden waste of storage of bikes.

Council Tax Band: G
EPC Rating: E45

Sitting Room - 6.15m x 3.61m -

Dining Room - 6.07m x 3.91m -

Study - 3.51m x 3.15m -

Kitchen - 4.42m x 3.3m -

Pantry/Utility Room - 3.4m x 2.44m -

Cinema Room - 5.82m x 3.43m -

Cellar Storage - 6.2m x 3.53m -

Bedroom One - 6.1m x 4.65m -

Bedroom Two - 5.23m x 4.6m -

Bedroom Three - 4.62m x 3.86m -

Bedrom Four - 4.55m x 3.81m -

Bedroom Five - 3.81m x 3.3m -

Bedroom Six - 3.63m x 3.28m -

Bedroom Seven - 3.81m x 3.3m -

Bedroom Eight - 3.61m x 3.2m -

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Band: G

Leicester Road, Wanstead

NEAREST STATIONS

Distances are straight line measurements from the centre of the postcode
  • Wanstead Station0.4 miles
  • Snaresbrook Station0.4 miles
  • Redbridge Station0.7 miles
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About the agent

Petty Son & Prestwich Ltd, London

11 Woodbine Place, London, E11 2RH

Petty Son & Prestwich Ltd, London

For well over a century Petty Son and Prestwich has had a long and successful history in Wanstead and the surrounding area. The firm was founded in Leytonstone in 1908 by C. Petty, a locally renowned builder, under the style of Petty & Son. The company was then run by his son Charles, a chartered surveyor.

Petty and Son quickly grew in both size and reputation and was soon to become Petty Son & Prestwich when Harry Prestwich entered the partnership, offering services in surveying, estat

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