Cheriton Avenue, Ilford, IG5

A grand and spacious two bedroom 1930s semi detached, with private driveway, side access and substantial rear garden. Square footage is substantial at just under 1000 square feet, with a wonderful open plan ground floor, all sat in a peaceful residential neighbourhood.

Your open plan ground floor makes for an impressive welcome, with blonde hardwood underfoot and clear sightlines from the bay window at the front to the patio doors at the back. In between everything's pristine white and full of natural light, with plenty of extra storage.

You're sat on a quiet residential street well served for excellent schools and plentiful greenery. A twenty minute stroll gets you to Fairlop tube for the Central line, with the Fairlop Waters Country Park just beyond.

YOUR NEW HOME

Everything's handsomely elevated and nicely set back from the street with plenty of private parking space. Climb the front stairs for your handy storm porch, great for bags and coats, then it's right into your 170 square foot living room.

Entirely open plan, the ground floor wraps around the staircase with broad, blonde engineered hardwood running underfoot. Everything's naturally bright thanks to that large bay, and dual aspect with a second window off to the side.

A discreet secondary corridor on the left opens up to more integrated storage, as well as your family bathroom, simple and flawless in smoky grey floor tiling and large format sandstone running from floor to ceiling. There's a handsome white suite and a shower over the tub.

Moving on, you have a dining area of around 100 square feet, artfully zoned without compromising the open plan and offering still more storage below the stairs.

Your kitchen sits to the rear, between facing flanks of classic pine cabinetry below chunky white worktops and mosaic tiled splashbacks. Dual aspect once again, this is yet another naturally bright space, with double French doors leading into the impressively lengthy garden.

First off is a long patio, running alongside that 200 square foot private garage, with high timber fencing on the opposite side. Explore further and everything gets a lot more lush, with a still more generous expanse of lawn spreading out between dark timber fencing, thriving planters and mature greenery.

It all ends in a vast second patio, spanning the garden's entire width, home to a handy shed and barely overlooked. Perfect for barbecues and a splendid outdoor retreat.

Finally, upstairs to your sleeping arrangements, a pair of substantial double bedrooms, naturally bright and pristine in white and blonde.

And there's still that vast 1930s loft space awaiting expansion and skylights as some of your neighbours have done, possibly adding still more space (subject to the usual permissions).

YOUR NEW NEIGHBOURHOOD

As noted, you're especially well served for schools. The well respected Caterham High School is just two minutes away, while Gilbert Colvin Primary School, Parkhill Junior School and Glade Primary School are all around a half mile on foot.

The highly regarded grammar school, Ilford County High, is around twenty minutes on foot, while early years are well catered for by the popular Tiptree Preschool Nursery, just a half mile on foot.

When it comes to greenery, Hustleigh Gardens is just a couple of minutes from your new front door, great for morning runs and evening strolls alike. Alternatively, the woodlands of Claybury Park are just a little further,

If you want to stretch your legs or splash around, you can be exploring the playgrounds and boating facilities of Fairlop Waters with just a half hour walk, for a great range of watersports and blue and green scenery. Alternatively it's just a five minute drive.

Fairlop tube is also one of several stations within a half hour stroll, offering speedy direct connections to the City and West End via the Central line. Liverpool Street is around twenty five minutes direct, Oxford Circus about thirty five.

So despite your peaceful green surroundings you can be in the heart of the capital in around an hour, door to door.

Or if you want to keep things local, you have the Unicorn pub, just five minutes down the road, with a regular programme of live events.