4 bedroom terraced house

Tucked away in a quiet residential pocket of Leytonstone, between the town centre, good schools, comprehensive rail links, and Wanstead Flats, this characterful period rental is ideally located for professionals and families. In recent years, the property (including the heating system) has been updated to a high standard throughout.

STEP INSIDE

Arriving at the house, you’re met by a useful patio and a smart Victorian frontage opening into a bright hallway with a high ceiling and chequered tiles. This leads into a large, subtly decorated double reception room on your left, lit by a bay window with privacy shutters and French doors opening to the rear terrace. Chunky alcove shelving provides ample storage on either side of the period fireplace, while the floorboards are both practical and attuned to the period feel.

Continue into the spot-lit kitchen, which has a good range of wooden cabinetry on either side, metro-tiled splashbacks, and a sink beneath a large side window with a Roman blind. There's also an integrated oven, a gas hob with an extractor hood, and a freestanding dishwasher, fridge, and washing machine.

From the kitchen, step up into a rear reception room decorated to match the living room. With French doors to the garden and a window to the side, it’s lovely and light and would make a nice dining room, snug, home office or utility space.

Upstairs, you’ll find two thoughtfully decorated double bedrooms with wooden flooring on the first floor. The largest bedroom faces the front and features two large windows with fitted Venetian blinds. Both rooms share a beautiful spot-lit family bathroom lined with black-and-white Victorian floor tiles and a metro-tiled splashback. It contains a roll-top bath with a glass screen and rainfall shower, traditional-style sanitaryware, and a mirrored cabinet. There’s also a separate two-piece WC for convenience.

A carpeted staircase leads to a bright landing on the second floor and two spot-lit and carpeted bedrooms, with the main double bedroom benefitting from built-in wardrobes and eaves storage beneath the Velux windows. The final bedroom would make an ideal space for a home study. These share a high-spec modern bathroom, where quality floor and wall tiles backdrop a huge walk-in rainfall shower, period-style sanitaryware, and a chrome heated towel rail.

OUTSIDE

French doors from both reception rooms open onto a sunny, southwest-facing terrace for relaxing and entertaining. This area overlooks a fully enclosed lawn with flower borders, a rear patio, and a useful shed.

GETTING AROUND

Leytonstone High Road (Overground) is only 15 minutes on foot. Leyton and Leytonstone Underground stations are both around 20 minutes’ walk. Maryland rail station is approximately the same distance for the Elizabeth line. From here, it’s just a short journey to Liverpool Street and one stop from Stratford’s major interchange with the DLR, Central and Jubilee lines, along with shopping, cinema and food at Westfield and East Village. Various local bus stops run regular services to Stratford, too.

IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

Cheneys Road is part of a quiet pocket of Victorian streets between the lower end of High Road Leytonstone and the wonderful Wanstead Flats – a walking, jogging and mountain-biking paradise that acts as a gateway to Epping Forest. Nearby Chalet Wood also provides a beautiful carpet of bluebells every spring.

Alternatively, run through Hollow Pond and beyond, exploring the forest trails, or head to Langthorne Park for pools, wildlife, basketball courts, a play park and an outdoor gym. You are also just 1.5 miles from the Olympic Park with all it has to offer.

Within a 10-minute walk is the lovely Leytonstone Tavern (check out the fantastic burgers and roasts), the new coffee shop Tamping Grounds, Kotch for pizza, and The Rookwood Village pub with its stylish interior, deck and electronic darts. Stroll a few minutes further to explore Winchelsea Road’s artisanal food and drink scene, including The Wanstead Tap, Rambles Café, and Wild Goose Bakery for custard tarts.

The High Road is only a few minutes’ walk away and has many cafés and convenience stores at its southern end. If you like traditional Neapolitan pizza, check out Bocca Bocca. Other local favourites include Sunday roasts at the Holly Tree pub, after-work drinks at Mammoth taproom, the Leytonstone arts trail, and the weekly local farmers’ market beside Cann Hall Park, with its coffee shop, play areas and skatepark.

Our local sellers particularly recommend Back to Ours for a great flat white and Dina Wines for interesting bottles and pop-up chef residencies. Other favourites include Cann Club and Crate Walthamstow for kids’ clubs, Leytonstone and Leyton Leisure Centres for swimming, local five-a-side football, park runs, and running clubs, and Fitness Hub East, E7 Movement, and Pause yoga studio all within walking distance.

SCHOOLS

The popular Jenny Hammond Primary School is just a four-minute walk away and rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted. Davies Lane Primary School is a 15-minute walk away and is rated ‘Outstanding’. You’ll also find Buxton School within a five-minute stroll and a few nurseries nearby.