Chestnut Avenue, Wokingham

Unique & exciting opportunity to update a wonderful water-side home in one of Wokingham's prime residential roads. This detached home has good potential to remodel, refurbish and possibly extend, with an unbeatable setting next to Windmill Pond.

Chestnut Avenue is a wide, tree-lined road of mainly large detached homes. Aptly named Waters Edge, this is one of just a handful of homes with restful views over the pond. This peaceful setting, with its south-westerly facing garden, means beautiful wildlife displays throughout changing seasons, and endless sunsets over the calm waterside.

The new owners of Waters Edge will enjoy fishing rights for two rods, and the grounds and garden are both beautifully-kept and full of healthy-looking life.

Reassuringly, as the pond's water is purely supplied by underground springs, and not a river tributary, this property is not in a flood risk area (source: Environment Agency, March 2026).

This home was originally built with three bedrooms in the 1950s, and has since been converted to provide a fourth bedroom annex quarters with separate living space, small kitchenette, and shower room downstairs. It will certainly require modernisation, but the possibilities to extend over the garage, into the garage, or into the garden (subject to planning consents) will be quite compelling to buyers with an appetite to create a large, bespoke home.

Waters Edge gives a welcome home-coming, with smart border fencing, large gravel driveway, and a beautiful cherry blossom tree by the entrance. There's ample parking, but also room to increase the hardstanding and driveway area by re-landscaping. The garden, which has been well-tended and nurtured, offers a good degree of privacy (with morning-to-evening sunshine)

Ideally-placed for some of Wokingham's best schooling - Hawthorns Primary, Windmill Primary, and St Paul's CofE, Emmbrook Secondary & Junior Schools (all OFSTED rated GOOD), and Walter Infant School, Emmbrook Infant, and the Holt Secondary Schools (all OFSTED rated OUTSTANDING)

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A Few Words from Quarters

"Anyone looking for a project will want to make sure the area is worth the investment, so it's exciting to find such a perfect mix of location, setting and build possibilities. The neighbouring property values will underpin this opportunity.

If you're not looking for a full-scale project (or if you want to build in the future), there's good scope to convert the walk-in wardrobes into an en-suite shower. If, however, you're looking to optimise the space, there's plenty of scope in the current garage (and a good parcel of land to the right of the drive to extend the parking or, SSTC, to build a detached garage).

This home has been in the same family for nearly 45 years, and we can certainly understand why they'd never felt the need to move. Chestnut Avenue is a peaceful road, but has the convenience of nearby stores (including a Little Waitrose) and Post Office on Reading Road. Frequent buses run to Reading, Wokingham town & station, and also Bracknell. A short walk away, up to Simons Lane, there are plenty of green spaces, including Chestnut Park.

Just a mile to Wokingham station, and a little further to Elms Field and the market town, this home offers the best of all worlds - with nearby amenities, and within walking distance of everything Wokingham has to offer (with its array of bars, eateries, cosy coffee shops, culture, and leisure facilities)

Please get in touch with Nick Harris or Teresa Ling at Quarters Estate Agents, Wokingham, for more information or to discuss viewing arrangements - we're looking forward to showing buyers around, and listening to the varied inspiration for this wonderful home!"



Council Tax Band: F (Wokingham Borough Council)
Tenure: Freehold
Windmill Pond is fed by underground springs, and not a tributary. This property does not appear in any flood risk (source: Environment Agency website)

The Annex has a separate EPC rating 59 (D) with a potential 68 (D)