Evelyn Road, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, LU5
East of England
£400,000
Listed on 08/10/2026
Listed on 08/10/2026
The listing
Property details
Bedrooms
4Type
Semi DetachedArea
1023 sqftFeatures
- Garden
- Parking
Description
This four-bedroom extended semi-detached home is in East Dunstable, with local amenities, schools and transport links nearby. The direct busway offers connections through the area, the M1 is within reach, and Luton & Dunstable Hospital is a short distance away. The property has an EPC rating of C and is in Council Tax Band D.
The ground floor includes a central entrance hall, a front-facing lounge and a separate front-facing study. At the rear, the kitchen and dining room provide a larger shared space, alongside a ground-floor bathroom. Upstairs are four bedrooms and a separate shower room.
Outside, a front lawn and driveway provide off-road parking. The private rear garden has a lawn and patio, as well as a concrete storage shed that was formerly the garage before the extension was added. The house would benefit from updating, offering scope for a buyer to adapt the accommodation and finishes to their needs.
WHOTS analysis
Our WHOTS verdict
An internal assessment of the opportunity to acquire, improve and create value.
41out of 100
Grade ELow opportunity
Confidence: MEDIUM
This four-bedroom semi offers a useful family-home canvas, with several living spaces and bedrooms appearing clear and usable, plus driveway parking and front and rear gardens. The main scope is a kitchen update, a refresh to the dated bathroom finishes and decoration, and bringing the overgrown rear garden back into shape; the £22,000–£42,000 renovation range gives a sense of the project’s scale. The brick exterior and roof look intact in the supplied views, with no obvious major structural issue visible.
The asking price is £400,000, or £391 per sq ft against a local average of £365, so it is not cheap on this measure. All-in costs using the renovation midpoint look tight against local benchmarks, which makes the value-add case less convincing at this price, despite the space and scope to personalise the home.
Key opportunities
- Refresh the worn kitchen and dated bathroom finishes to give the home a more current feel.
- Update decoration and flooring across the usable living spaces and bedrooms.
- Clear and improve the overgrown rear garden, making better use of its lawn and patio.
Key risks
None recorded.
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