Sunny Dble Room, Great Views, Elizabeth Line!

Large Sunny Architect designed Double Room, has two large windows with fabulous green views. & polished original floor boards.
An easy 10 mins walk / 3 mins by bus to Forest Gate Station with fast Elizabeth Line then 10 mins to Central London.
Also the Suffragette line is at the end of the street! Excellent Transport link-ups too with buses almost to the door, so very safe for women at night.

Room benefits from new secondary glazing of beautiful original casement windows making for lovely warm, modern and quiet room.

The House is in a great location on the edge of a wild London green common and it’s a joy to live in the urban, being just a stone’s throw from Central London and there is a lush courtyard garden.

*Elizabeth* 3mins Stratford, 10 mins L’pool St, 14 mins Farringdon, 18 mins Tottenham Court Rd.

- From Stratford the Central/Jubilee/DLR / various Overland lines. Shoreditch H/St, South London & West London.

Local Independent coffee shops / bars / bakery/ gym and gasto pubs located around the corner from the house.

RENTAL: £1300 for a double room includes access to and use of all social areas of the house:
Rental includes:
• all household Bills, Superfast Fibre Wifi, all eco cleaning products, all ad-ons inc dishwasher tabs, water filter cartridges, etc
• a fortnightly cleaner for all shared spaces
• & this London house opens up onto the beautiful courtyard garden where you can chill out in the warmer months

LONGER TERM Available to join a happy house.
FOR SHORT TERM RENTAL - Please send a message :)
Sunny Double BEDROOM :
• A spacious double room with well designed built in storage.
• Double windows mean this room gets great views across the common and loads of sunshine and direct light.
• Sanded original wooden floors with large neutral rugs
• 2 sets of ceiling down-lighters, one of LEDs, the other Halogen allowing for softer ambient light control (both sets dimmable)
• New black-out blinds & simple cream cotton floor to ceiling curtains.
• Modern Desk with drawer & lamp
• A fitted wardrobe with internal drawers
• A very comfortable easy chair
• Side table
• Extensive built in book shelves
• Deep storage shelving next to the wardrobe
• A hardwood double Habitat bed with new mattress & all cotton mattress topper.
• Internal lock on door

The ceiling in the room steps up cleverly three times where the architect has brought extra height into the room by accessing the roof space running across two full height windows and with the white plaster, (as throughout the house ) it gives a beautiful subtle light.


BATHROOM:
Large clean modern bathroom with:
• A ceramic square sink
• A new rimless ceramic toilet
• A very wide contemporary flat bottom bath with full height large white mosaic tiles with power shower and well ventilated
• The hot water for shower & bath only is on its own stored system, so there is always plenty on tap & stops interruption when the dishwasher or washing machine is on! The rest of the hot water runs on demand.
• Birch ply is used for all cupboards & around bath & below sink
• There is a shelving system for personal toiletries
• New rug on a white floor
• Heated towel rail, more hooks for towels.
• It has a sandblasted lockable glass door adding to the contemporary space.
• Frosted casement windows open out viewing onto the roof garden with huge cherry tree in the spring & summer giving good privacy if you like to hear the birds whilst you soak!

The bathroom is given a light touch ‘once over’ clean every day, out of habit, so it’s always clean and ‘leave the bathroom as you find it’ is an easy-care sharing mantra! We are adults and respectful of both shared & each others’ space.

Although it’s a shared space, It’s easy enough to stagger lifestyles to avoid queues for the bathroom, with cooperation on our times it works very well!

WHAT IS THE HOUSE LIKE? :
Its a contemporary architect modernised throughout victorian, has three floors and has been rethought out so it’s interesting, with lots of light!

House is kept pleasantly tidy and clean - we have a cleaner who comes for four hours every fortnight for communal spaces included in the rental.


Additional lighting is all individual designer maker designed here and there!

Central heating of course, and like everyone we are working to make this an eco house in tune with the planet and so only very very occasionally ( climate change!) we light an open fire on cold nights for feel good factor and a night in.

There is also a roof garden … ! Here we have a brabantia clothes line for washing!

Architect designed by award winning Studio Polpo, the house sits across three floors, including white plaster walls throughout giving a special light and a very comfortable ambience. 
HOUSE COMMUNAL AREAS:
Large architectural porch as pre-entrance to the house for shoes-off as enter
Alongside an extensive open plan living area of three linked spaces, there is a big modern fully equipped kitchen …

KITCHEN:
White gloss kitchen, big pull out drawers, with 5 ring hob, glass extractor fan, big Fisher & Paykel fridge, double fan oven & grill, microwave, washing machine, slim dishwasher etc
Slate floor, glass shelving, stunning flat roof light overhead, Walnut sink Island with K-Chef & food processor, InstantPot etc etc ; it’s a very well equipped kitchen with all things useful / you are welcome to use it all.

Double french doors from the kitchen lead out to a large courtyard garden which turns a corner and leads through planting...
Dining Area: with 4 French opening doors on to the courtyard garden, it has a big long table with a random mix of contemporary designer seating for 8 people, with Ghost (see through!) stools on the kitchen island, and a step down into living/relax spaces… dimmable down-lighters throughout.
French doors spanning across whole of dining space brings the outside in from the courtyard garden with Cherry, Apple, Fig, Pear trees …

Next up is the open plan contemporary living room, with reclaimed maple floor throughout the whole space, with a huge linen habitat sofa, large new habitat rug , A table etc. opposite a fireplace and various long, small, hand-made cupboards on the wall holding arty objects ! It’s homely and not precious.

There’s a 4th zone to this open plan house with a 2.5m library of books behind glass doors … you are of course welcome to enjoy them ( some fun stuff :) Adjacent are the walnut wood stairs leading up to the walnut first floor landing. This house has four sets of quirky stairs- its very unusual contemporary architecture and an easy house to live in!

ABOUT CURRENT HOUSEMATES :
Two single people live here welcoming a third… One is a furniture maker, working in beautiful wood work, personable and kind, he also works in Daunts bookshop.
The other a professional artist, works out on site & 2 days WFH, also away around 1 week in any month with work. She leads a small arts charity and is pretty chilled and happily gets on with professional work / life as social practice artist, also co-leads a community garden.
Both present house mates have a good sense of humour, are generous, kind, easy going and independent.


Two short haired tabby cats live here too - sweet & friendly brother & sister, they do not go into bedrooms, do their own thing/spend time in the garden, sleep a lot…

WHO ARE YOU? :
Easy going person working or studying in London,, you will be warmly welcomed to share a great space together, and the odd meal and glass of wine/coffee/tea as & when.
Current room mate is PhD student & is sad to go but happy too as moving in with lovely partner and excited! She has loved living here !

It’s not a party house, and so looking for considerate, respectful & friendly person to share the house, who do their thing.

A non smoking house (essential), and mostly vegetarian so looking to share with similar, but what you eat isn’t a breaker.

Not looking for those who work full time from home, but 1 day per week WFH is very fine…

Kind (again!) and friendly, housemates enjoy a good conversation over a coffee in a relaxed way. We hope you also spend time looking after yourself and enjoy a good work-life balance !

If you cycle then there’s a lockable cycle hub close to the house and costs £36 per year to rent from the council / very useful !!


AMENITIES: What's around? Local ‘Stuff’ :

All close to the house:

E7Movement for yoga, kick box, pilates, brilliant, friendly, enough space to enjoy & now outside sauna! (& The Gym Factory too is en route to Forest Gate station! )
Wild Goose lbakery & cafe is around the corner ( breakfast too!) as well as the famous Wanstead Kitchen & Joyau, a neighbourhood French wine bar serving French small plates, also sells bread & is a good workspace as open for breakfast & sells Ancient Lights bread!

Pretty Decent is a fab micro brewery with pop up kitchen food, Tamping Grounds - a new Indy neighbourhood cafe on the corner, brilliant coffee, also sells ( ouch!) fantastic hand made artisan cakes & bread!
Wanstead Kitchen for excellent Bangladeshi / Indian food, local legends to us and all our neighbours including Grace Dent:)

Lidl, Co-op & Tesco X all close to FGate station ; a 24 hr brilliant Eastern European close by, excellent Turkish corner shop & various independent shops & cafes around us in Forest Gate & Stratford, with three great pubs at a stones throw - all go for different reasons (gastro food, music and the views!)

… and up the road : Marmelo & Yardam, & Pop up chef led Loop, (TimeOut fame) & Phlox coffee/bookshop, Bluetit Hair on Francis Road 1mile along the way in Leyton with chef led pop up supper clubs .... 3 farmers markets, 1 on Sunday around the corner ( dusty knuckle bread),
BocaBoca & Yardsale Pizza, Fiore Truck ( pasta), Cider House, Ramble cafe (+ bread) are all close by favourites!

Back to Ours is a great cafe & arts space just across common 10 mins beautiful walk away.
The Holly Tree & other local pubs serve v good gastro food … not forgeting The North Star for Thai & just the best wood fired pizza!
Wanstead 10 mins - good park/cafes/pubs, restaurants and food shopping- constantly winning annual London High St Award also has a French market.

Independent French deli & coffee shop Cups&Jars & sustainable living stuff, cafes Yellow Bicycle & Giovannis in ForestGate next to Saturday Market / E-Line Station is Forest Tavern a contemporary Gastro pub..& a new artisan bakery also just opened: Ancient Lights!

Stratford’s reinvention is well established since the Olympics and is now a regional London Hub for all things Westfield Shopping, Eating and Vue Cinema, Theatre Royal and the Stratford Circus Arts Centre for arts and great walks through the wilded E20 City Park and cycling the GreenWay - great cafe & bike place at the Viewtube! Swimming pool is already legend and we have two outdoor sauna spots here ( 🧡 )
Epping Forest aka Wanstead Flats starts at the front door for the runners and walkers amongst us - and it’s so close to the City!


Additional TRANSPORT STUFF: Excellent public transport **Bus stops less than 1 min away** - Stratford 10 mins bus/5 mins by car.
8 mins walk to Wanstead Park Overland to West London or 20 mins door2door to Oxford Circus on Victoria line!
8-10 Mins walk Forest Gate: Elizabeth Line To L'Pool St (10 mins )/ or Stratford (2 min), Tottenham CRT Rd 18mins / Paddington / H-Row
Excellent Access to the City. Stratford to Holborn 18 mins/London Bridge 12mins/London City Airport 25mins/Canary Wharf 10 mins! Westminster 22 mins.

Elizabeth Line has changed everything up as the newest fastest smoothest tube.
The Javelin Tube Line to St Pancras - is a fabulous 6 minute journey from Stratford Int.

FREE PARKING 6.30pm-8am (mon-sat, free Sunday 24hrs) on surrounding streets & outside house. North Circ A406, M11 and A12: 5 mins drive away.