Dysart Avenue, Kingston Upon Thames, KT2

A substantial and highly adaptable five-bedroom family home on Dysart Avenue, offering approximately 1,587 sq ft of accommodation, 1,804 sq ft in total with the integral garage, and the potential to create two separate living areas. The address is North Kingston; the schools, the Park and the river life are shared with Richmond, and the house sits right on the seam.

Already extended at the rear and into the loft, the house provides generous space across three floors. It is presented in liveable condition, leaving the next owner able to modernise and reshape it over time rather than having to begin before moving in.

One house. More than one way to live.

The ground floor includes a spacious kitchen and dining room, a separate reception room and an additional bedroom or study.

The existing arrangement creates the potential for two more independent areas of accommodation, particularly useful for extended family, regular guests or a household looking for greater separation between generations.

There is also scope to rethink the ground floor more broadly, whether retaining the flexibility of separate rooms or creating a larger connected family space.

Upstairs, and up again.

Four further bedrooms are arranged across the upper floors, together with two bathrooms.

The loft extension adds valuable accommodation away from the main living areas, while the overall layout gives bedrooms, working space and guest accommodation room to coexist without each competing for the same square footage.

Fifty feet to work with.

The rear garden extends to over 50 ft and gives the house a substantial outdoor setting.

Together with the integral garage of 217 sq ft, it also presents possible further opportunities to enlarge or adapt the property, subject to planning permission and the necessary consents.

Where Kingston meets Richmond.

Dysart Avenue sits close to the border of the Richmond and Kingston boroughs, placing the house between several highly regarded schools, including Grey Court School (Outstanding, retained at its February 2024 inspection), Tiffin Girls' School, The Kingston Academy and Fern Hill School.

This part of North Kingston also has an unusually close relationship with the river. The Thames is moments away, opposite the grounds of The Lensbury, with the pedestrian and cycle bridge at Teddington Lock providing a direct route across to Teddington. Teddington station sits about a mile away over the footbridge, Hampton Wick similar, and the 65 bus stops at the top of the road, running to Kingston one way and Petersham and Richmond the other.

Less pain, no chain.

The property is offered with no onward chain. For people who don't buy a house every day, this is an enormous benefit, especially if you aren't in a chain yourself. Nationally, almost one agreed sale in four fell through before exchange in the first quarter of 2026, and 38% of those collapses came within four weeks of the sale being agreed (TwentyCi). A chain-free seller removes the biggest part of that worry: there is nobody above us to let you down. It also puts you in charge of the timetable. Exchange currently averages 134 days nationally; here, the seller's side is ready when you are. And it is rarer than it sounds: only around a third of homes on the market can say it (Zoopla, November 2024). That leaves the next owner free to concentrate on the possibilities of the house rather than somebody else's moving timetable.

New to the area?

Kingston is named after a stone. The Coronation Stone, still standing by Clattern Bridge, crowned seven Saxon kings, starting in 902. North Kingston keeps a quieter version of all that history: the riverside along Lower Ham Road is a conservation area and home to the rowing and sailing clubs, and the walk to town runs through Canbury Gardens, past The Boaters, to Kingston Bridge, the first major Thames crossing above London Bridge until Westminster Bridge was built. Town brings the market square, trading for centuries beneath the Market House of 1840, and David Mach's Out of Order, red telephone boxes toppled like dominoes since 1988. Richmond Park is up the hill. We have been selling homes here since 1975, and we look forward to selling this one to you.