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Ickenham Road, Ruislip, HA4

London

£850,000

Listed on 16/10/2026

The listing

Property details

Bedrooms
4
Type
Semi Detached
Area
1311 sqft

Features

  • Garage
  • Garden
  • Parking

Description

This four-bedroom semi-detached house is within reach of West Ruislip and Ruislip stations, local schools and amenities. The accommodation includes a living and dining room, fitted kitchen, and a ground-floor shower room with WC. Upstairs are three bedrooms and a family bathroom, with a further loft room on the second floor. Outside, the property has a sizeable rear garden, a garage or outbuilding and off-street parking for multiple vehicles. The listing notes potential to extend, subject to planning permission. The existing layout and additional loft space offer scope to consider how the accommodation could be updated, with any proposed changes and permissions requiring independent checks.

WHOTS analysis

Our WHOTS verdict

An internal assessment of the opportunity to acquire, improve and create value.

36out of 100
Grade ELow opportunity

Confidence: MEDIUM

There’s a substantial family-home canvas here: the spacious living/dining room, several usable bedrooms and loft room, and off-street parking give it useful fundamentals. The dated interiors, older kitchen and bathroom finishes, and cluttered, uneven rear garden offer clear scope to refresh and improve; the kitchen ceiling staining should be investigated as part of planning the work. The rear additions and outbuildings also warrant checking before relying on their condition or suitability.

The main obstacle is the price. At £850,000, the asking price is around 13% above the local £/sqf average, and adding the £42,000–£78,000 refurbishment range would leave the purchase-plus-works cost stretched against local benchmarks for this floor area. That comparison is with current local average value, not a forecast of the home’s value after renovation, but it makes the numbers a weak starting point despite the project’s useful space and location.

Key opportunities

  • Refresh the dated kitchen and visible bathroom and shower finishes, investigating the kitchen ceiling staining before setting the final scope.
  • Rework the cluttered rear garden and uneven hardstanding, with the garage, outbuildings and rear additions offering features to assess and potentially improve.
  • Make the most of the spacious living/dining room, usable bedrooms and loft room, while retaining the visible off-street parking.

Key risks

  • At the asking price, adding the quoted refurbishment range takes purchase-plus-works costs beyond local average benchmarks for this floor area; this is not a post-renovation value forecast.

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Ickenham Road, Ruislip, HA4
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£3,211
Based on a loan of £637,500 over 30 years at 4.45% interest

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