4 Bed Detached House For Sale

Fine Garden City family home with a superb kitchen/breakfast room at its heart, plus two reception rooms • Integral garage and good off-street parking • South facing rear garden • Excellent central location adjoining one of the many green open spaces which define the Garden City

The Property - This fine Garden City detached house dates from 1925 and was sympathetically extended in 1982 to form an excellent family home. The gracious entrance hall leads to the centrepiece of the home, the outstanding kitchen/breakfast room. Separate sitting and dining rooms, laundry and cloakroom/WC complete the ground floor.

The first floor includes a master suite comprising bedroom, en suite shower room and a dressing room, which could alternatively be used as a fifth bedroom. The three other bedrooms, one currently used as a study, are served by a well appointed family bathroom. Both the latter and the en suite have electric underfloor heating, as does the kitchen/breakfast room.

The house benefits from uPVC double-glazed windows and gas fired central heating. The roof was extensively re-tiled in early 2025.

The Outside - The house stands in a plot measuring approximately 83' by 45' (25.5m x 13.7m) overall. To the front is a picket fence and a 'basket-weave' brick paved "in-and-out" coach drive providing off-street parking and leading to the integral garage.

A gate to the side leads to the south facing rear garden which is some 32' (10m) in depth and laid to lawn with a patio of high quality paving under a pergola and fruit trees.
Garden shed.

The property adjoins an open green extending to nearly a quarter of an acre, one of the numerous open green spaces which define the Garden City and an adjunct of Broadway Gardens.

The Location - Meadow Way is a highly regarded residential road on the periphery of the town centre. No 4 is very conveniently placed less than a quarter of a mile to the south of the town centre and within half a mile of the mainline railway station. Letchworth Garden City is on the Cambridge to London mainline with the fastest service to London King's Cross taking just 29 minutes and Cambridge 27 minutes away in the other direction. Junction 9 on the A1(M) is 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. St Francis' College is within a third of a mile and the St Christopher School is half a mile away.

Construction - Solid brick with an insulated solid brick extension, all roughcast rendered externally under a tiled pitched roof.

Services - Mains water, sewerage, gas and electricity are connected to the property.

Broadband Speed - A choice of providers with claimed download speeds of up to 1,800 Mbps.

Mobile Signal - Most providers claim up to 5G coverage.

Conservation Area - The property is located within the Letchworth Conservation Area.

The Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation - To maintain the integrity of the Garden City concept and design, properties are subject to the additional planning requirements of the Heritage Foundation.

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