A traditional bay-fronted home benefiting from extensive rear gardens and many period features associated with the age of the property.

• Desirable location
• Traditional family home
• Scope to extend (STPP)
• Brimming with period features
• Extensive westerly facing rear gardens
• Plentiful driveway parking
• Detached garage

This is a fantastic opportunity to purchase a traditional home dating back to the inter-war period, which has been in the same family for many years and comes to the market for the first time in several decades. The property has been well-cared for and has only been slightly extended, leaving plenty of scope to further enlarge subject to the relevant planning permissions being granted.

Internally the light and airy accommodation exhibits many character features associated with the period, including stained glass in the hallway, picture rails and an Art Deco style tiled fireplace within the back living room.

A real feature of this wonderful home is the huge rear garden, which extends a long way from the property and enjoys a sunny west-facing orientation.

69 St. Johns Avenue is approached from the roadside via a long tarmacadam driveway providing parking for around three to four vehicles. The driveway leads to the detached garage, which is recessed at the side of the house and would benefit from repairs or replacement.


Entrance
The property is accessed by a delightful period stained-glass front door, which leads into a welcoming hallway featuring stained-glass windows, a picture rail, wood panelling and stairs rising to the first floor with useful storage underneath.

There are two living rooms and a kitchen situated on the ground floor.


Dining room
The front sitting room has a bay window, a picture rail and a fireplace with a tiled inset and wooden surround.


Living room
At the rear of the property is a light and airy living room, which has been previously extended and enjoys lovely views of the garden. This wonderful room includes a window to the rear aspect, a picture rail and a brick Art Deco style feature fireplace housing a gas fire.


Kitchen
The kitchen is located adjacent to the rear living room and offers scope to knock through and make open plan if required. This room comprises wall and base units, with work surfaces incorporating an inset sink drainer. There is space for various appliances including a cooker, a fridge freezer and a washing machine.

The kitchen also features quarry-tiled flooring and a glazed door to the rear porch and gardens beyond. From the rear porch, a doorway leads to an outside WC, which has a wall-mounted washbasin, a low-level WC and houses the wall-mounted Worcester boiler.


First floor
The landing grants access to the bedrooms and the house shower room. There is also access to the loft via a hatch.

Master bedroom
Situated to the front of the property is a spacious bay-fronted main bedroom benefitting from fitted mirror-fronted wardrobes. This lovely room also has a picture rail and a bay window to the front aspect.


Bedrooms two and three
Bedroom two is a spacious double bedroom featuring pleasant views of the rear garden and has a window to the rear aspect.
The third bedroom is a single room including a window to the front aspect.


Shower room
Completing the accommodation is a light and airy shower room, which has been modernised and comprises a shower cubicle backed by panelling, a pedestal washbasin, a low-level WC and a frosted window.


Garden
The mature rear gardens are a wonderful feature of the property, being extensive in size and neatly maintained with the added benefit of a sunny west-facing backdrop.

The first section includes a paved patio, which gives way to long sweeping lawns featuring mature borders and established fruit trees plus a greenhouse.

The upper section of the garden is nicely secluded and includes another long section of lawn bordered by mature privet hedging and culminating in two greenhouses.


Services
The property has mains gas, mains electricity, mains water and mains drainage.

Council tax band - D

Reservation Fee - refundable on exchange

A reservation fee, refundable on exchange, will be payable by the Buyer to Andrew Grant Sales Limited prior to issuing the Memorandum of Sale and marking the property as Sold Subject to Contract. This fee will be reimbursed upon Exchange of contracts.

In the instance the Seller withdraws from the sale the fee will be returned to the Buyer. The fee will be retained by Andrew Grant Sales Ltd to cover costs in the event the Buyer withdraws from the purchase or doesn't Exchange within 6 months of the fee being received other than as a result of:

1. Any structural or material issues arising from any survey that has not previously been disclosed
2. A defect in the seller’s legal title
3. The local searches reveal any matter that has a material adverse effect on the market value of the property that were previously undeclared or unknown

The reservation fee levels are as follows:
an agreed offer under £500,000 will be £750 inclusive of vat
an agreed offer between £500,000 and £1,000,000 will be £2,000 inclusive of vat
all agreed offers over £1,000,000 will be £3,000 inclusive of vat

The reservation fee is payable upon acceptance of an offer which itself is subject to an assessment of ability to proceed. Any renegotiation of an accepted price after the issue of the Sales Memorandum for any reason not covered in points 1 to 3 above will lead to the reservation fee being retained. A further fee will be payable on any subsequent reduced offer accepted by the vendor. This will be returnable subject to the conditions that prevail for all reservation fees.