Semi-detached house for sale in Letchworth Garden City SG6, 4 Bedroom

Fine example of an early garden city home • lovely high ceilings and other authentic features • outstanding 0.27 acre plot with super gardens • extensive off-street parking and garage • good location on the favoured south side of town

The Accommodation

Storm Porch • Entrance Hall • Sitting Room • Dining Room • Study • Breakfast Room • Kitchen • Cloakroom/WC
Landing • Bedroom 1 • Bedroom 2 • Bedroom 3 • Bedroom 4 or Study • Bathroom
Garage • Workshop/Potting Shed • Greenhouse

The Property

This outstanding example of an authentic early Garden City semi dates from 1908 retains all the charm of its period with lofty ceilings, gracious entrance hall and landing with fireplaces to the principal reception rooms, the one in the sitting room having a log burning stove. The house has been well updated to provide a spacious home for the modern family and benefits from uPVC double-glazed windows and the modern gas fired condensing combi boiler is fed by water pre-heated by the solar panels to aid economy in use.

The sitting and dining rooms still have their original parquet flooring and elsewhere there is extensive use of oak, natural floorboards and ceramic tiling.

The Outside

The house stands in a truly outstanding plot of over a quarter of an acre, set some 50' (15.15m) back from the road and screened by an established hedge. The front garden is laid to lawn with herbaceous borders, ornamental shrubs and an impressive, mature silver birch tree. The driveway provides off-street parking for five or six cars and leads via double gates to the side of the house to the large recently erected timber and tile detached garage set to the rear of the house.

The plot measures approximately 317' by 38' (96.8m x 11.65m) overall with the southerly facing rear garden making up about 225' (68.6m) of the length. This impressive garden is laid to lawns with a Travertine marble paved patio, herbaceous beds and borders, rose bushes, ornamental shrubs, weeping silver birch, fine mature specimen conifer, pergola, raised ornamental pond and kitchen garden with raised vegetable beds and soft fruit cages. Perhaps its crowning glory is the collection of over 30 fruit trees, including varieties of apple, pear, plum, cherry and peach.

In addition to the garage, there is a fine timber built workshop/potting shed, log store and an aluminium greenhouse 12'6" x 6'3" (3.8m x 1.9m). The garage, workshop and greenhouse all have electric power. There is also a comprehensive rainwater collection system which can be pumped around the garden for irrigation.

The Location

The house is set on the favoured south side of the town on a broad, tree-lined section of road and flanked by properties of similar calibre. It is only half a mile from the town centre and within three-quarters of a mile of the mainline station. Letchworth Garden City is on the Cambridge to London Kings Cross mainline with services running regularly throughout the day. The fastest service to London Kings Cross takes just 28 minutes with Cambridge 26 minutes away in the other direction. Junction 9 on the A1(M) is only 1.6 miles away by car.

Designed in the early 20th Century to combine the benefits of town and country, Letchworth Garden City was the world’s first example of this concept and succeeds to this day in achieving its aim. The town provides excellent schools, shops, leisure facilities and green open spaces. The highly regarded Lordship Farm jmi, St Christopher, Highfield Schools and St Francis' College are all within easy reach, the furthest being just three-quarters of a mile away.

Tenure

Leasehold: 999 year lease from 1908. Peppercorn Ground Rent.