Forest Drive East, Leytonstone, E11

An exceptionally spacious, five bedroom family home, arranged over three floors plus a handy basement and lengthy rear garden. You're well placed too, with Leytonstone tube, Epping Forest and Leytonstone High Road all within the easiest of reach.

Design is smart and characterful throughout, with plenty of vintage features and original architecture still in evidence. The extended kitchen/diner offers a wealth of social space, beautifully bright with a conservatory leading to your garden.

You're superbly well placed for open green space, with Epping Forest, Hollow Ponds and Wanstead Flats all just a half mile away on foot. Leytonstone tube and Leyton Midland Road stations are both just as close, for the central line and Weaver line respectively.

YOUR NEW HOME

Lots to explore here, stroll up your drive, for off street parking as well as some nice extra seclusion, and your original extra broad front door is in striking royal blue. Handsome brickwork and original mouldings complete the frontage.

Inside let's start with your front lounge, showcasing those splendid period proportions at 220 square feet. Here's also where you'll first meet your high vintage ceilings with ornate cornicing. Blonde hardwood runs underfoot and there's a substantial original hearth and mantel taking centre stage.

Bistro shutters sit on the large, bright bay window. It's a fine social space but even better is to come.

Follow the hallway round for twin entrances to your 500 square foot kitchen/diner. Impressively vast, immaculate and skylit, this is the heart of your new home, artfully segmented by a breakfast bar and chef's island with gas hob and elegant suspended extractor hood.

There's another dark vintage hearth below a reclaimed railway sleeper, and more blonde hardwood floors underfoot, on into your skylit kitchen. In here you have a wealth of cream cabinetry below warm timber worktops.

Head through the conservatory for your garden,  a combination of patio and lawn stretching for more than fifty feet between timber fencing, screening greenery  and mature foliage.

Back inside now, and upstairs for the sleeping arrangements. Your principal bedroom sits to the front, with another bistro shuttered bay window and a charming en suite bathroom, brightly appointed in white and pine with a shower over the tub.

The second of your three bathrooms is at the end of the hall, a naturally bright shower room, while two more double bedrooms and a substantial storage closet compete the storey.

Upstairs again for another double sleeper, skylit and with  plenty of under eaves storage thanks to the expert loft conversion. There's still more extra storage, a second shower room in mint green and slate, and bedroom number five tucked peacefully to the rear.

YOUR NEW NEIGHBOURHOOD

 Step outside and you have everything you could wish for within easy reach.

Leytonstone High Road is home to an ever evolving array of independent bars and restaurants, including much loved taco-purveyors Homies on Donkeys and the recently refurbished Red Lion pub.

The Arch, The Filly Brook and The Heathcote & Star are all also less than ten minutes stroll, a diverse cluster of characterful watering holes for an ideal find no matter the occasion.

 Leyton Midland Road is just as close for the Weaver line, running from Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside. Be sure to explore beneath the arches here for eating and drinking spots, Gravity Well Taproom and Burnt Smokehouse.

Leytonstone tube is less than ten minutes' walk for the Central line and direct, regular and speedy connections to the City and West End. Your door to door City commute could take as little as twenty minutes.

Whenever you want to get back to nature, just take the ten minute stroll to the open blue and green space of Epping Forest, Hollow Ponds and Wanstead Flats. In the summer you can hire row boats and explore the waterways before rounding off your day with a drink at the Sir Alfred Hitchcock Hotel, overlooking the woods.

Parents will be pleased to discover a superb range of schools. You have more than twenty within a mile, including Newport Primary, Riverley Primary and Willowbrook Primary, all rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted at their last inspections. Finally, the much loved Gwyn Jones Primary and Leytonstone Secondary School are both just moments away.

A luxurious and expansive family home, artfully developed with a wealth of square footage, driveway and private garden. Parks, schools, transport and nightlife are all within the easiest of walking distance. A fine find with every box ticked.