Charmouth Road, St. Albans

Entrance hall

Drawing room

Family room

Office

Kitchen/dining room

Utility room

Cloakroom

4 Bedrooms

2 Bathrooms

Garage

Garden

EPC rating D

Bullet Points

Entrance hall | Drawing room | Family room

Office | Kitchen/dining room | Utility room

Cloakroom | 4 Bedrooms | 2 Bathrooms | Garage

Garden | EPC rating D

The property

Designed in the Art Deco style and sensitively modernised and extended to offer the amenities of modern living in a stunning family and entertaining space, 15 Charmouth Road offers light-filled attractive accommodation arranged over two floors. The ground floor accommodation flows from a welcoming wooden-floored entrance hall and briefly comprises a spacious drawing room with wooden flooring, a feature fireplace and bi-fold doors to the rear terrace, a well-proportioned family room and a useful office with wooden flooring. The ground floor accommodation is completed by a large kitchen/dining room with a neighbouring fitted utility room. The kitchen area offers a range of contemporary wall and floor units with a breakfast bar, quartz worktops, a range cooker and modern integrated appliances, while the dining area offers space for a sizeable dining table and large bi-fold doors to the rear terrace, additional Velux glazing flooding the area with natural light.

On the first floor a generous landing with a glazed door to a feature front aspect balcony, part of the Art Deco styling, gives access to a spacious principal bedroom with built-in storage and modern en suite shower room, three further generous bedrooms and a contemporary family bathroom.

Mileages

St. Albans City station 0.9 mile (London St Pancras International 19 minutes), M25 (Jct. 21A) 6.6 miles, M1 (Jct. 6) 7.9 miles, London Luton Airport 11.3 miles, London Heathrow Airport 27.2 miles

Location

The property is set in a popular and convenient location within very easy reach of the mainline station with its fast through services via St. Pancras International to the City (19 mins), Gatwick and beyond. Road users enjoy easy access to the M1, M25 and the A1(M) and to the airports at Heathrow, Luton and Stansted. The city centre with its wealth of amenities including shopping, leisure activities and excellent state and public schools is close at hand, as are the green spaces at Clarence Park, The Wick, Bernards Heath and Verulamium Park.

With its attractive streets, market place and precincts, St. Albans' historic city centre provides an appealing backdrop to a great range of speciality boutiques, independent retailers and major stores and to numerous bars, cafés, public houses and restaurants. St. Albans also has a thriving cultural life, with regular concerts and theatre productions held in a variety of local venues, as well as a large number of sporting venues, including eponymous football, rugby and cricket teams and facilities for the keen amateur, including a community gym, a bowls and tennis club and a golf course.

The property is served by a wide range of nearby state schooling including Bernards Heath Infant and Nursery and Junior Schools (the Junior School having an Outstanding Ofsted rating), Verulam and Sandridge School (also rated Outstanding by Ofsted), as well as a good selection of independent schools including St. Albans High School for Girls, St. Albans, St. Columba's College and Aldwickbury.

Outside

The property is approached over a low-maintenance block-paved driveway providing private parking for multiple vehicles and giving access to the integral garage. The generous enclosed garden to the rear is laid mainly to level lawn bordered by mature shrubs and features a large wraparound paved terrace, ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining.