Property description
Once inside this comfortable, attractive, family home, visitors are astonished by the size of this character-oozing Victorian house, which the current owners have maintained in fine condition during their 37 years. The large, front-to-back sitting room (new Amtico flooring, 2015), has period features and a back door to a pretty, low maintenance garden, including a magnificent old wisteria which perfumes the whole area in May.
At the back of the house is a spacious dining room, larger kitchen than is usual for this style of house, separate utility room and cloakroom. The 1993 extension was re-roofed in 2015. Upstairs are five double bedrooms linked by elegant stair cases with original banisters.
Abundant integral storage space, mostly original, includes a huge airing cupboard and the original Victorian dresser in the dining room. Two useful cellars, accessed by a carpeted staircase, one of which is fully converted to living space (with building consent, 2002) and used by the currents owners as an office.
Park Road’s excellent residents’ parking permits scheme currently costs £40 per year. Visitors’ vouchers are cheap and convenient. Just a few minutes’ walk from the railway station (4 trains an hour to London), two large supermarkets and high street amenities, the house is also walking distance (15 minutes) from open country and Kentish orchards.
What the Owner says:
We fell in love with this property the moment we met the previous owners, an elderly couple both teachers who had been here since 1935. She ran a school in the house during the war and had kept a resident maid who slept in the attic at a wage of 7/6, (35p) per week. The house’s calm, spaciousness and family atmosphere struck us immediately. That was 1977 and we were a young couple with two small children. Today, many improvements and modernisations later, we often welcome our four grandchildren here as the generations and patterns repeat themselves.
It is time to move on and we look forward to handing it over to someone who will be as happy here as we have been.
Room sizes:
- GROUND FLOOR
- Entrance Porch
- Entrance Hall
- Lounge Area: 14'0 x 12'11 (4.27m x 3.94m)
- Dining Area: 12'5 x 11'1 (3.79m x 3.38m)
- Breakfast Room: 13'8 x 9'5 (4.17m x 2.87m)
- Kitchen: 11'5 x 9'11 (3.48m x 3.02m)
- Utility Room: 8'9 x 7'4 (2.67m x 2.24m)
- Cloakroom
- BASEMENT
- Cellar 1: 10'9 x 10'3 (3.28m x 3.13m)
- Cellar 2: 15'0 x 13'3 (4.58m x 4.04m)
- FIRST FLOOR
- Landing
- Cloakroom
- Bedroom 2: 15'2 x 10'7 (4.63m x 3.23m)
- FIRST FLOOR UPPER LEVEL
- Bedroom 3: 12'7 x 11'0 (3.84m x 3.36m)
- Bedroom 1: 16'11 x 14'8 (5.16m x 4.47m)
- SECOND FLOOR
- Landing
- Bathroom
- Bedroom 5: 18'6 x 16'2 (5.64m x 4.93m)
- SECOND FLOOR UPPER LEVEL
- Bedroom 4: 11'9 x 10'4 (3.58m x 3.15m)
- OUTSIDE
- Front Garden
- Rear Garden
The information provided about this property does not constitute or form part of an offer or contract, nor may be it be regarded as representations. All interested parties must verify accuracy and your solicitor must verify tenure/lease information, fixtures & fittings and, where the property has been extended/converted, planning/building regulation consents. All dimensions are approximate and quoted for guidance only as are floor plans which are not to scale and their accuracy cannot be confirmed. Reference to appliances and/or services does not imply that they are necessarily in working order or fit for the purpose.
Property Features :
- OPEN HOUSE THIS SATURDAY (23RD JAN) - by appointment only
- Best Offers invited, closing Monday 8th February 2016
- Wonderfully extended 5 bedroom semi detached period home
- Flexibly living accommodation
- Double bedrooms