5 Bed Detached House For Sale

The property comes to the market for the first time in over 40 years. It dates from 1795 and all period features remain. Whilst the property will require some updating, the house has been well maintained and is decoratively well presented. The roof was replaced in 2013 about the time the gas boiler was replaced. It is an excellent family house with a warm and friendly atmosphere, and well proportioned comfortable rooms.

Period features include ornate ceiling cornices, panelled doors, shuttered windows, and panelling to dado height. The fine turning staircase with half landing in the reception hall presents an impressive entrance.

The south facing drawing room is a lovely and elegant room with a central marble fireplace, and a pair of floor to ceiling French shuttered windows open to the garden. The dining room has a bay window overlooking the rear garden and a period fireplace. Double doors from the dining room open into the farmhouse style breakfast kitchen with flagstone floor and a period fireplace fitted with a electric stove fireplace. Off the kitchen is the utility room, a further storage area and the rear entrance to the garden. At the rear of the reception hall, a door leads down to an excellent cellar with good ceiling height, power and light. There is also a useful downstairs toilet immediately on the left as you walk in through the front door.

The first floor has a central landing off which the accommodation is arranged. There are four double bedrooms and large shower room. Two south facing bedrooms to the front and the two rear bedrooms look over its private rear gardens. One of the rear bedrooms opens to an “annex” with a shower room and small hall from which stairs lead to a further small bedroom or study.

Outside
The property is approached over a drive, providing parking for two/three cars and leads to a detached single garage with an electrically operated roller door.

The front garden has lawn and deep beds planted with a variety of plants and shrubs. Tall hedgerow and mature trees create privacy from the road and a flagstone pathway spans the width of the house under a canopy supported on ornate brackets.

The lovely rear garden is private and secluded with many established trees and natural stone walls form the east and west boundaries. There is lawn, flagstone pathways and deep shaped borders planted with a variety of mature ornamental shrubs and a rose bed. Fruit trees include apple, pear and cherry. There is a timber arbour clad with a climbing rose, and around the garden climbing shrubs include a mature Clematis and Honeysuckle. Outbuildings include a timber summer house, open fronted timber potting store and a timber garden store.

Cotham is in the conservation area and is about one mile north of the city centre. It is a leafy inner
city suburb just north of Kingsdown, close to Redland with Durdham Downs lying to the West. The roads are wide and the impressive houses are mainly Victorian and Georgian. Cotham is a very popular area and within easy reach of the excellent amenities of Whiteladies Road, Cotham Hill and Gloucester Road.