A First World War hand grenade has been found in a Woodford Green home.

The Kugel grenade, said to be the size of a ping pong ball, was unknowingly brought outside by a workman clearing a house in High Road on Tuesday.

The Metropolitan Police’s Explosives Ordinance Disposals Unit was called at 2.31pm to make the grenade safe.

The grenade was in a bucket of sand when they arrived at the scene.

On finding it to be safe, the specialist unit took it away to be disposed of.

The workman was clearing either two or three properties in a stretch of the High Road between Mews Place and The Dell, according to the police.

A spokesman said: “He didn’t know which of the houses the grenade came out of.”

No homes in the area had to be evacuated.