4 Bed Detached House For Sale

Classic early Garden City home • Many attractive original features • Scope for further updating • Excellent plot and prime location • Garage, car port and off-street parking • 80’ south-west facing rear garden

The Property - This substantial detached house is a true classic of Garden City design. This impressive property has been classified as a 'Home of Special Interest' by the Letchworth Heritage Foundation, retains its original character and would amply reward further updating, allowing the buyer to create a truly outstanding home.

An interesting feature is that the front door was originally intended to be on the side of the property and it was only decided to change it to face the road at the last minute. The result is an attractive external alcove on the ground floor with an intriguing internal balcony above overlooking the stairwell.

The ground floor principally provides four reception rooms, kitchen, shower room and cloakroom/WC. Upstairs are four good bedrooms, bathroom and separate WC.

The house benefits from replacement uPVC double-glazed windows and gas fired central heating.

The Outside - The house stands in a fine plot measuring approximately 144' by 57' (43.9m x 17.3m) overall, set behind a dwarf wall with the front garden laid to lawns with herbaceous borders and ornamental shrubs. There is a herring-bone brick paved path to the front door and the matching driveway provides off-street parking, leads to the car port and on through to the detached garage to the rear.

There is access to either side to the pleasing south-west facing rear garden, which is some 80' (24.5m) in depth and laid to lawn with crazy paved patio, herbaceous beds and borders, apple trees and ornamental shrubs and trees. There is a second paved patio to the rear of the garden room, which can be completely covered by the electrically powered awning mounted above the patio doors, a delightful feature on a sunny day.

Timber garden shed.

The Location - South View is one of the most highly regarded residential roads in Letchworth Garden City. It is just a quarter of a mile to the south of the town centre and the house is within half a mile of the mainline railway 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 just 1.7 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 open green spaces. St Francis College is within a quarter of a mile and St Christopher School is half a mile away.