Property description
CHAIN-FREE SALE. A charming end terraced cottage located at the top of the town and attractively recessed from the street in its own long gardens fringing the Conservation Area adjacent to the town centre and station (Waterloo line - minimum journey time 67 minutes).
Description
Affording 2 double bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs, characteristics in the property include a fireplace complete with a stove, traditional recessed panelled internal doors with several chrome finished handles, tall skirting boards and ornate architraves, exposed floorboards, picture rails and several quarry tiled window sills. Contemporary features range from cavity wall insulation and uPVC double glazing with most windows incorporating fanlights, to the fitted furniture in both the kitchen area of the dining kitchen, and the bathroom. Heating is via a gas system with radiators.
Location
The impressively recessed row of five cottages forming Chauntsinger Cottages nestles between period properties including Thomas Geale's XVIIth Century Almshouses and is in the vicinity of St Lawrence Church, the library, Allen Gallery, Curtis Museum and the Eight Bells Inn. Just around the corner, the High Street with its splendid Georgian facade leads to the main shops, M & S and Sainsbury's stores, a wide variety of hotels, restaurants and inns, and both weekly and specialist open air market events. There is a network of town footpaths also leading to the water meadows whilst Alton has a Waitrose store, retail park, schools, a further education college, The Convent School, fitness clubs and a sports centre. The immediate area is renowned for its connections with the English Civil War.
Ground Floor
Tiled Porch
With lantern light. Panelled effect front door with arched top window to:
Entrance Hall
Marble finish tiled floor, downlighting, coving. Angled panelled coats cupboard - electric meter, fusebox.
Sitting Room - 13'3\" (4.04m) into fluted bay window x 13'3\" (4.04m)
Including elegant fireplace fitted with multi-fuel burner stove, natural brick sides, stone hearth and pine pillared mantelpiece. Front garden aspect. Coved ceiling, radiator, tv aerial socket.
Dining Kitchen - 16'6\" (5.03m) x 8'5\" (2.57m)
Rear aspect via pair of windows and arched recessed French door opening to rear gardens. Travertine floor. Fitted in light oak livery with chrome finished bar handles and integrated Neff stainless steel finished series of electric oven, gas hob and chimney style hood, and concealed Beko dishwasher. Affording floor cupboards, top and soft closing pan drawers, granite effect laminated worktops inset with stainless steel one and a quarter bowl single drainer sink and swan neck mixer, bevelled white tiled splashbacks, pelmet lighting and matching series of wall cabinets above with end display/bookshelves and double pelmets. Separate oakblock peninsula worktop with double cupboard below - housing and plumbing for washing machine. Double cupboard above with Ideal Classic wall hung gas boiler. Programmer. Coved ceiling with dedicated downlighting to kitchen area. Dining area with space for table and chairs. Bisque style tubular radiator, separate picture downlight. Walk-in understairs cupboard with downlight, Travertine floor and space for condenser dryer or fridge/freezer.
First Floor
Landing
Approached from entrance hall via stairs with hand rail, radiator and return step to landing. Exposed floorboards, thermostat. Hinged hatch with ladder to loft.
Bedroom One - 13'4\" (4.06m) x 9'\" (2.74m)
Plus recessed fitted double wardrobe with wicker panelled doors. Front aspect over gardens towards The Vicarage. Exposed pine floorboards, picture rails, radiator, cornice.
Bedroom Two - 11'10\" (3.61m) x 8' (2.44m)
Including fitted double wicker panelled shelved cupboard. Exposed pine floorboards, picture rails, radiator, cornice.
Bathroom - 8'7\" (2.62m) x 8'2\" (2.49m)
Refitted with white contemporary suite and chrome finished fittings providing deep panelled bath with mixers/pumped shower attachment and glazed screen, semi-circular wash stand basin with mixers, and soft closing wc. Stone effect part tiled walls, painted floorboards, picture rails, cornice, radiator, rear window. Corner airing cupboard - hot water cylinder.
Good Sized Gardens
Are enclosed and partly walled. The front garden is entered via an ornate metalwork double gate beside which is a laurel hedge with paved and brick path progressing via lawns and shrubbery borders with small trees to a raised rockery/flower border beyond which is a latticework screened sunken sun terrace with peashingle and brick surrounds and raised borders with entry steps and vine. The front garden measures 62' x18' widening to 21'. Paved path and side gate to wide peashingle side path and bin storage area leading to the enclosed rear garden which has a lawn flanked by flower borders and broad peashingle perimeters with outside tap and gas meterbox. Beyond is a paved pergola arbour with sleeper style steps leading to a small upper lawn with climbers and timber featherboarded shed providing logl/general storage. The rear garden measures 45' x 22'.
NB
Our vendor clients have enquired with East Hampshire District Council about potential vehicular access to the cottage from the Victoria Road Car Park at the rear. Further details upon request - call Warren Powell-Richards.
Directions
From the Alton Police Station mini-roundabout, at the eastern end of Drayman's Way, Alton's inner relief road, proceed alongside the Magistrates Court with Normandy Street towards the High Street and at the next mini-roundabout turn right onto Church Street towards Alton College. The property is set back on the right prior to the next mini-roundabout before St Lawrence Church.