Gainsborough Avenue, London, E12

A classic two bedroom end of terrace with strong fundamentals waiting to be updated. You have 780 square feet of living, a private garden and you overlook Ilford Park. Inside room sizes are generous, with the surface design waiting for your particular stamp.

Classic carpeting and vintage paintwork can be easily updated, with the sheer square footage for space and the end terrace status for extra peace and quiet. There's also scope to follow in your neighbours' footsteps and add your own whole new storey (STPP).

You have Little Ilford Park right across the road, just a handful of footsteps from your new front door. Ilford station, for the speedy Elizabeth line, is around fifteen minutes walk away, and surrounded by the amenities of Ilford itself.

YOUR NEW HOME

A vintage tiled path leads up to the handsome brick frontage, set with original mouldings.

Step inside and stairs rise ahead, with your 125 square foot front lounge on your right. In here you'll find soft carpet, statement wallpaper and high ceilings, as well as a classic tiled hearth and mantel.

Your dining room sits at the end of the hall, and totals an even more impressive 170 square feet, with the option to connect them if you want a vast, open plan ground floor. There's more striking carpet and more vintage tilework around the hearth.

Your kitchen is next, finished with eye catching mint green cabinets and forest green paintwork. There's a separate utility room, and a door out to your garden.

Out here you have a generous length of secluded patio and lawn, barely overlooked thanks to your end terrace status. Flourishing greenery runs down the flanks and it all ends in a substantial, handy shed. A little green fingered attention out here will work wonders.

Upstairs your family bathroom is spacious and simple in blue and white, while both bedrooms are well sized doubles. Your principal bedroom is especially generous at 180 square feet, lit by twin sash windows. Bedroom two to the rear features an original cast iron hearth and mantel, and is finished in soft cream.

Finally, of course, you have the loft space to explore, potentially adding your own whole new storey as some of your neighbours have done (subject to the usual permissions). A home that can grow with you and yours.

YOUR NEW NEIGHBOURHOOD

Cross the road and you're immediately in Little Ilford Park, with fifteen acres of open green space to explore, with a children's playground and outdoor gym, plus tennis courts, football pitches and a cafe. Perfect for morning runs or all kinds of fitness.

If you really want to stretch your legs, the endless greenery of Wanstead Flats is a twenty minute walk. Once the favoured playground of Tudor kings and queens and still some of the wildest, wide open natural space for miles around.

Around fifteen minutes on foot brings you to Ilford station, on the shiny and speedy Elizabeth Line. From here it's just fifteen minutes to the City or twenty two to the West End. There are even direct connections to Heathrow airport.

The heart of Ilford itself is a fifteen minute stroll, for a wide array of shops, cafes and bars and all your day to day needs close at hand. Historic Romford Road is just half a mile on foot, for even more cafes, bars and daily necessities.