Upper North Street, London, E14

The Property
This is a large eight bedroomed family home, set on the edge of Bartlett Park, one mile from Canary Wharf.


The house is a highly unusual former public house, built in 1858, which has been converted to be a single large family dwelling.


The property has the potential for a number of uses, including:


- As a family dwelling.

- As an HMO. Fire check doors, interlinked smoke alarms and emergency lighting are already in place.


- Split into three or more flats

- As a redevelopment, subject Planning approval. It is not a listed building, and has no restrictive covenants.

The property has high ceilings, 13 feet high on the ground floor, 11 feet high on the first floor. It has many features from when it used to be a public house.


The property has three reception rooms on the ground floor. The lounge has a DEFRA approved log burning stove which can be legally used in a smoke-controlled area.

Seven of the eight bedrooms have large fitted wardrobes.

Three of the bedrooms are in an annexe which has its own kitchen and shower room. The annexe has its own access to the street, so those living there can come in and out without disturbing the residents in the main house.


The rooms on the first floor have wooden sash windows.

The property has a large dry cellar, with a ceiling height of 165 cm, extending across the whole area under the dining room, lounge and kitchen.

The property has three boilers. On the first floor there are “smart” thermostatic radiator controls, enabling the temperature in each room to be individually controlled.


There is a roof terrace which gets a lot of sunshine and a rear external staircase, which provides independent access to the annexe.

The house has a capacious garage which can house a vehicle plus bicycles etc, or can be used as an overflow area for social gatherings. The property has a 28 foot long rear yard and a log store.
There are excellent public transport links, including Langdon Park DLR station which is only a 6 min walk .


Seller’s Comments
We bought this property 29 years ago to be a home for us and our children to live in. It was a disused public house when we bought it, but, having obtained planning permission for change of use, we converted it to the dwelling that it now is.


We have been extremely happy here. The house has been a wonderful home and has lent itself to host many large events and gatherings, with capacity for friends and family to stay as well as many lodgers to live here.


We love the house’s quirky character, with its high ceilings and irregularly shaped rooms.


The house is surprisingly warm, with large south facing windows absorbing the sun’s warmth, and gas central heating with “smart” thermostats in most rooms. The log burning stove in the lounge cosily and cheerfully also throws out a great deal of heat.


Owing to the unusually large dimensions of the ground floor, we have been able to entertain large numbers of people, especially since we could open up the doors between the lounge and the study to make such a large area. Recently we have enclosed the garage which has provided extra space for entertaining friends. The garage is a wonderfully flexible space which has also at times been used as a bike repair workshop.


One enormous plus of the house is its vicinity to public transport links. The 309 bus runs past the front door, while several other buses run about 200 yards away along the East India Dock Road. Langdon Park DLR station is about 6 minutes walk away, and the Canary Wharf Elizabeth Line Station about 15 minutes’ walk.


It has been invaluable to be on the edge of Bartlett Park, which is a lovely place to walk, to meet people, for children to enjoy the playground, to benefit from the events at Poplar Union. On the edge of Bartlett Park is the Limehouse Cut, whose tow path leads to the River Lea, and all the way up to Waltham Abbey in Hertfordshire, a cycle trip we have enjoyed many times.


We hope that a future buyer will be as happy here as we have been.

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