An extended three-bedroom semi-detached home offering approximately 1,159 sq. ft. of internal accommodation, plus a garage, with an unoverlooked rear garden and off-street parking. Offering superb potential to modernise, reconfigure and further enhance, subject to the relevant consents, in a popular Rayleigh/Eastwood borders location.
Tenure: Freehold
Council Tax Band: D
Room Measurements
Ground Floor
Living Room: 5.06m x 3.48m (16'7" x 11'5")
Kitchen/Dining Room: 5.06m x 3.27m (16'7" x 10'9")
Conservatory: 4.46m x 3.74m (14'8" x 12'3")
Ground Floor WC
First Floor
Bedroom One: 5.06m x 3.48m max (16'7" x 11'5" max)
Bedroom Two: 2.84m x 3.48m (9'4" x 11'5")
Bedroom Three: 2.12m x 3.50m (6'11" x 11'6")
Bathroom: 1.79m x 2.93m (5'11" x 9'7")
Garage: 2.97m x 4.55m (9'9" x 14'11")
Floor Area
Main house: approximately 107.7 sq. metres / 1,159.4 sq. ft.
Garage: approximately 13.5 sq. metres / 145.4 sq. ft.
Total shown on floorplan including garage: approximately 121.2 sq. metres / 1,304.8 sq. ft.
Interior
Internally, the home offers an excellent footprint with clear scope for a buyer to modernise and make it their own. The entrance hall leads to a generous living room, while the extended kitchen/dining room provides a spacious everyday hub with plenty of room for cooking and dining. From here, the conservatory adds a further reception space overlooking the garden and gives direct access outside. A ground-floor WC completes this level. Upstairs are three bedrooms, including an impressive principal bedroom stretching across the front of the house, two further bedrooms and a family bathroom. The existing layout is practical, but the proportions also create exciting potential to reconfigure, open up the rear of the property or extend further, subject to the usual consents.
Exterior
The outside space is one of the home's strongest assets. To the front, a private driveway provides off-street parking and continues alongside the house to a garage, giving useful parking, storage or workshop space. To the rear is a generous, established garden with lawn, mature planting and a notably private, unoverlooked feel. The depth of the plot gives families plenty of space for entertaining, play and gardening, while also adding to the property's longer-term potential. Buyers looking to create a larger family home may see scope for further extension or landscaping, subject to planning permission, while retaining a good amount of garden. The combination of driveway, garage and secluded garden is increasingly hard to find in this location.
Location
Rayleigh Avenue sits on the popular Rayleigh/Eastwood borders, offering a lifestyle that combines suburban space with excellent everyday convenience. Rayleigh town centre and station are within easy reach, providing shops, cafés, restaurants and rail connections towards London, while Eastwood offers a strong range of local amenities close to home. The A127 is readily accessible for travel across South Essex and towards the M25. For weekends, residents have nearby green spaces and countryside walks, with Rayleigh's parks, Cherry Orchard Jubilee Country Park and the wider Leigh-on-Sea area all accessible. It is a location that works especially well for families wanting more space and a quieter setting without feeling cut off from schools, shopping, commuting links or the coast.
School Catchments
The postcode sits on the Essex/Rochford side of the Rayleigh and Eastwood border, with a strong choice of schooling nearby. Grove Wood Primary School is approximately 0.5 miles away, with Edwards Hall Primary School also around 0.6 miles from the property. For secondary education, The FitzWimarc School is approximately 1.4 miles away, while The Eastwood Academy is also nearby at around 1.5 miles.