Positioned just off High Road Leytonstone in a leafy residential street, this four-bedroom Edwardian home offers a rare renovation opportunity in the beating heart of Bushwood, just a three and six-minute walk away from Leytonstone Tube and the High Road Overground, respectively.

Dotted around your doorstep, you’ll also find a play area, primary school, and community allotments, while delights such as Panda Dim Sum, Bocca Bocca, the Red Lion public house, while essential shops and fitness centres await on the High Road.

The property has been within the same family for 61 years, and the current owners have fond memories of it as a lovely, spacious family residence, now stripped back ready for the new owners to begin redesigning and remodelling it into their dream home. There’s also potential to extend into the loft, subject to planning and consents.

As you arrive, you’ll spot a typical Edwardian façade featuring a full-height square bay window framed by slim columns with foliage capitals and painted brick lintels to match the entrance, crowned by a front-facing gable with decorative barge board. Between low brick walls with railings, a centrally positioned iron gate opens to a front patio leading to a wooden part-glazed door with a transom window above.

Inside, beautiful original Victorian floor tiles and exposed floorboards line the long, spacious hallway, where a staircase with a wooden bannister conceals the entrance to a useful basement.

To your left, a timber-framed door reveals a generously proportioned through living room topped and tailed by a large front-facing square bay and glazed double doors to the side return courtyard. A high ceiling and pendant fitting further enhance the sense of light and space.

Meanwhile, an alcove beneath the bay and fitted cupboards on either side of the chimney breast highlight the potential for installing practical storage solutions, a modern fireplace, and perhaps even a cosy window seat.

Just behind the staircase, you’ll find a functional kitchen with a cooker, fitted cupboards, and a stainless-steel sink overlooking the side return via a large awning window and a part-glazed door.

Another reception room with a feature fireplace and mantelpiece lies adjacent, suggesting the possibility of creating an open plan dining kitchen, where French doors with windows above open to a sunny lean-to garden room and the southwest-facing lawn beyond. Alternatively, you could use this room as a snug or formal dining area, with storage space for shelving, cupboards or bookcases to the chimney alcoves.

Returning to the staircase, which is ripe for a fitted runner carpet, you’ll come to a split-level, part-galleried landing with a high ceiling and exposed wooden floorboards that continue into two of the bedrooms.

At the front of the house, a square bay, awning window, and central pendant fitting on the high coved ceiling illuminate a big primary bedroom featuring four floor-to-ceiling bespoke integrated wardrobes, recessed for extra floorspace. Of course, you could easily swap these out with an alternative to suit your design scheme and aesthetic.

Just off the primary, the second bedroom is another good-sized double with fitted sliding wardrobes and an in-built vanity area beside a wide double-glazed casement and awning window. To the rear, you’ll find two additional bedrooms, with the third double also benefiting from a modern central light fitting, bespoke in-built floor-to-ceiling wardrobes, and a double-glazed, southwest-facing window offering a leafy view of the garden.

While you could use the fourth bedroom as a home office, playroom, or nursery, you always have the option to link it to the adjoining bathroom to create a luxurious, high-end retreat the whole family can enjoy. Next door, the part-tiled bathroom currently contains a bathtub with an overhead shower, a pedestal basin with a mirrored cabinet above, and a close-coupled toilet beneath a double-glazed side window.

Outside, timber fencing, trees and shrubs wrap around a blank-canvas lawn you can adapt to any al fresco vision. While you could keep the conservatory as a pleasant space to enjoy sunshine throughout the year, you could also use it as a handy laundry room or remove it to create a large terrace that segues into the side return and links to the living room.

A NOTE FROM THE OWNERS

‘I spent the first 25 of my life in this lovely family home. Our parents lived there for 61 years, and my sister was even born in the front room! We’ll miss our wonderful neighbours and playing music in the living room.’

IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

Bushwood has a wonderful mix of long-term residents and newer arrivals, who are quickly welcomed into its vibrant community.

Just a two-minute walk from High Road, with its cluster of local favourite hangouts, you’ll never be short of places to wine and dine. Some top spots include The Birds and The Red Lion pubs, Wild Goose Bakery (try the carrot cake), as well as Bushwood's excellent local tavern, The North Star.

Don’t forget to try Singburi – an outstanding Thai restaurant – Panda Dim Sum and Mora Italian restaurant. Other highlights include Bocca for authentic Neapolitan pizza, Red Camel and Marrakech Delight for their respective Afghan and Moroccan cuisine, La Rioja for tapas, and the local library.

The house is also close to Wanstead's bars and restaurants (stop by Provender and Bombetta) and Forest Gate (check out Arch Rivals and The Wanstead Tap).

Just to the east, you can explore Wanstead Flats, with Henry Reynolds Gardens only a short walk away. The Olympic Park and Hackney Wick also offer many family-friendly activities and major retail shopping opportunities. services reachable in six minutes.

Nearby schools include the Ofsted-rated ‘Good’ George Tomlinson Primary School – literally across the road – Our Lady of Lourdes, and the ‘Outstanding’ Davies Lane Primary School.