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Somerford Grove Estate

Hackney, England N16 7TN

Private room with shared bathroom
Rent
£834 per month
Bills
Not included
Security deposit
£900
Property type
Apartment
Room furnishing
Furnished
Preferred gender
Anyone welcome
Available on
Now
🖥 Internet included
🏳️‍🌈 LGBT+ friendly

About the room

I am moving out of London, so I am looking to fill my room in a fantastic 3-bedroom 2-bathroom flat, with two young professional housemates in Dalston, an 8-minute walk from Dalston Kingsland Overground station.

The furnished room has a double bed, double wardrobe & chest of drawers, with a big velux window, giving a huge amount of natural light. There is plenty of space for a desk to work in your room, if required. If that is not to your taste, there is plenty of space downstairs to set up a workstation (as I have) - we have two big dining tables which are used as flexible workstations for the entirety of our tenancy so far!

The flat has a huge open kitchen, dining & lounge area with a real bright, communal and relaxed feel. The kitchen is fully-equipped with a cooker, microwave, toaster, coffee machine, large fridge freezer, crockery and cutlery, as well as a washing machine/tumble dryer (or drying racks if you prefer).

The lounge is furnished with one huge corner sofa, two additional sofas and wall to wall windows! There is a PlayStation (mostly used for Netflix/Disney+/Amazon/NowTV), and the room is arranged to give some separation between the lounge and kitchen, which gives a flexibility to enjoy the feel of those as separate rooms, as well as one big communal space.

We have 1GB internet speed provided by Hyperoptic, which has flawlessly handled 3 people working from home, including simultaneous video calls, and multiple streams of Netflix etc at one time.

Both bathrooms are well-maintained, complete with a bath-shower, toilet and sink each. The flat is both airy but also very well insulated, meaning that in the winter months, the heating is hardly required, but also plenty of windows and fantastic airflow allow the flat & rooms to be kept cool during the warmer months!

Excellent transport links:

  • Bus numbers 67, 76, 243 & 149 from Princess May Road bus stop right outside the building, servicing Shoreditch (20 minutes), Liverpool Street (25 minutes), London Bridge (30 minutes), Waterloo (50 minutes) and onwards
  • Overground links, with Dalston Kingsland (8-minute walk) and Dalston Junction (11-minute walk) giving access to different branches of the Overground

Local area/amenities:

  • Various social activities/amenities in Dalston (surrounds), Stoke Newington (13-minute walk) & Hackney (15-minute walk) 2-minute walk to a Co-Op, lots of local independent shops, a 10-minute walk to Aldi, or Amazon Fresh if that is your kind of thing! Gyms, cafes, shops, restaurants, bars are all available within walking distance. A couple of local favourites of mine are Mangal 1 on Arcola St (3-minute walk) for fantastic Turkish food! The White Hart pub (8-minute walk) with a lovely garden, and cosy fire for any time of year! Also Red Hand (Bar) which is a 3-minute walk, is fantastic for a cocktail lover! You can also access a local, independent cinema with a 5-minute walk!

The local area has a number of great options for natural spaces within a short walk. Hackney Downs (10 minutes), Clissold Park (16 minutes), London Fields (20 minutes) & Victoria Park (38 minutes) are all within walking distance! And the canal is a mere 25-minute walk (or 10-minute bus) away!

About the roomies

The two flatmates are Ash & James. Ash works for a bank, and is currently studying CFA. He is a gym goer, who likes to work out but also let off steam at the weekend where possible! James works in PR, and takes his personal fitness and health very seriously, but is also an excellent cook and loves making new dishes all the time! Both are very easy going, and like working through TV series where they can, and are always open to suggestions on TV shows and movies to watch together! They have quite differing music tastes, but both quite broad ranging, so they would definitely be good to chat to about that!

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