Semi-detached house to rent in Castle Avenue, London E4

A magnificently palatial five bedroom semi detached Victorian townhouse, lovingly developed and bursting with vintage character and designer luxury. The green rolling parkland of Highams Park and its famous lake is less than ten minutes' walk.

Your lengthy driveway to the front is complemented by your 100 foot, south-east-facing rear garden, a glorious blend of patio and vast lawn, home to raised beds and mature greenery, all barely overlooked with nothing but clear skies on the horizon.

If you lived here...

You'll have more than 2300 square feet to stretch out in, all artfully arranged over three storeys with a wealth of sociable space and no fewer than three bathrooms. Your front lounge is a fine introduction, with rich dark vintage timber underfoot, original moulding overhead and classic timber shutters on that lovely bay window. But the main event is still to come - explore further for your expertly extended, 500 square foot kitchen/diner - vast, open and awash with natural light.

In here you have a polished, poured concrete floor, beams and skylights overhead and an entire rear wall of sliding Crittal doors opening out onto that glorious garden. Your kitchen's decked out with a sleek, seamless suite of cream cabinetry topped with marbled counters and home to dual integrated ovens and supersized gas hob with concealed extractor. A breakfast bar takes centre stage below pendulum lighting, artfully zoning the space, while beyond your dining area basks in all that natural light. Tremendous.

Those richly restored original timber floorboards continue up to your landing, where your principal sleeper suite sits to the front. A beautifully bright 240 square feet, there's also a dedicated dressing room and chic en suite shower room with oversized rainfall cubicle. Your family bathroom sits across the landing, immaculately attired in large format marble tiling with freestanding tub and another walk-in rainfall shower. A five star spot.

Bedroom two, a sizeable double finished in sage green with timber shutters and garden view, completes the first storey. Up your skylit second staircase for a sizeable second landing, plenty of incidental space here as well as the third of your three bathrooms, strikingly tiled in hexagons and letterboxes. A huge 270 square foot sleeper sits to the front, with original floorboards under twin Velux windows and a handy study nook. Two more double bedrooms to the rear complete the property, with elevated views of that tremendous garden.

What else?

- Highams Park station is barely three minutes' walk for regular, direct twenty three minute connections to Liverpool Street, putting the City less than half an hour away door to door. Heading to the West End? Walthamstow Central is just two stops and five minutes away for a quick swap to the Victoria line.
- Parents will be pleased to find thirteen 'Outstanding' or 'Good' primary/secondary schools, all less than a mile away on foot and including the much loved 'Outstanding' Oakhill Primary, just ten minutes on foot.
- Natural green space is never far away. Highams Park with its famous lake, created at the turn of the century by landscape gardener Humphry Repton, is less than ten minutes away and perfect for morning jogs or evening strolls.

Reception (4.34 x 5.00 (14'2" x 16'4"))

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Utility (1.83 x 2.12 (6'0" x 6'11"))

Kitchen / Diner (6.15 x 8.03 (20'2" x 26'4"))

Bedroom (4.43 x 5.00 (14'6" x 16'4"))

Dressing Room

Ensuite (2.04 x 2.18 (6'8" x 7'1"))

Bathroom (3.04 x 3.50 (9'11" x 11'5"))

Bedroom (3.02 x 3.55 (9'10" x 11'7"))

Bedroom (6.43 x 4.08 (21'1" x 13'4"))

Bathroom (1.67 x 2.15 (5'5" x 7'0"))

Bedroom (2.75 x 3.63 (9'0" x 11'10"))

Bedroom (3.20 x 3.69 (10'5" x 12'1"))

A word from the expert...

Highams Park is a suburban gem that benefits from beautifully tree-lined streets and wonderful period properties. It shares it borders with the leafy Woodford Green and has a fantastic lake that nestles between them. Highams Park benefits from the London Overground which takes you to Liverpool Street station in just under 23 minutes door to door! The A406 and M11 is also close by making it seamless for drivers to commute too. I have grown really fond of the area in my 7 years here. My two kids go to local schools here which they love; and they have great Ofsted reports. What was once a consideration for me and my family because we couldn’t afford to upsize where we lived previously; is now an area I genuinely cannot see myself leaving anytime soon. The area has seen a few new additions since i’ve been here such as Halex, Yaz, Breeze and the micro pub The Stag and Lantern which are great places to enjoy a drink and a bite to eat. Another local favourite is the Royal Oak Pub which has recently been renovated. They have an amazing Sunday roast! Another exciting prospect is the Art Deco Regal Cinema. It has plans approved to be reinstated into a two-screen cinema with a café/bar and 30 new residential apartments around it. It’s amazing to see the investment being made into the local area which will benefit the very diverse community we have.

Nathan barrow