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" A deceptively spacious family home located on this premier river road in East Twickenham. Providing in excess of 2100 square foot of accommodation, with a stunning 128 landscaped rear garden, large garden office, off street parking and separate garage.

This superb property was built in the 1930s and, unlike earlier Victorian properties, offers wider room proportions and large picture windows, which all add to the feeling of light and space throughout. This first greets you when you open the front door into a beautifully wide and welcoming entrance hall, which has a large side window bringing in the south westerly sunlight.
The ground floor also provides a cloakroom, a spacious front drawing room with feature fireplace, which opens, via double doors, to a further informal family sitting TV room with further fireplace and then, in turn, to the dining room. In total, these three connecting rooms provide a spectacular entertaining space of approximately 44 from front to rear. Adjacent to the dining room and semi open plan, is the kitchen, which is fitted with an extensive selection of cabinets. Both are set within a stunning rear extension, which has four large skylights to the ceiling, additional fixed fanlights to the side and sliding patio doors stepping out to the rear patio and garden.

To the first floor can be found four of the five bedrooms, a family bathroom and separate cloakroom. Whilst to the top floor is the principle bedroom suite with a generous 189 x 141 bedroom, which leads to an en suite bathroom. Access is also provided to circa 64 square foot of eaves storage.

Externally the house is set well back from the road with an area of paved hardstanding providing off street parking. There is an attractive planted border to the side and rear of this space. Side access is also gained to a separate garage. To the rear of the property is a gardeners dream. Some 128 of landscaped garden with a wonderful selection of plants, shrubs and mature trees. A paved patio leads to an expanse of lawn and then to an almost secret part of the garden, which has a substantial freestanding Summer House or home office.

Riverdale Gardens is one of most desirable addresses in East Twickenham, located within the former Twickenham Park Estate. It is a lovely wide road with mature trees and some of the largest houses in the area, most of which have ample off road parking, therefore giving the road a less congested feel. To the end of the road, pedestrian access is provide to Thames Path, with is glorious walks along the river to Richmond Lock and Old Deer Park and, in the opposite direction along Ducks Walk to the foot of Richmond Bridge less than 2 minutes .

The property is located within a quarter of a mile of Richmond town centre with its extensive shopping and restaurant facilities, as well as Richmond Station with its fast service to London Waterloo and the District Line Underground to the West End.

East Twickenham, which is within a few minutes walk, has a great selection of small independent shops and restaurants and numerous cafes giving the area a very distinctive cosmopolitan feel. Historic St Margarets, once home to the artist J.M.W Turner, is within half a mile, which also has a mainline service to London Waterloo.

There are numerous state and private schools within the local area and of particular note are Deer Park School Ofsted Outstanding , Orleans Park, The Vicarage School for girls and Kings House for boys. For the motorist, the A316 provides access to Central London and to the M3 M25 motorways.

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