Character three bedroom detached Georgian cottage with garden and parking set down a private track in the desirable Combe Down area of Bath. This distinctive home with its five chimneys offers cosy yet flexible accommodation including living/dining room with open fire, kitchen/diner, a ground floor bedroom and bathroom, two first floor bedrooms with bathroom and fabulous outside space. This currently comprises a gravelled parking area for up to six vehicles, a level garden with well-stocked borders and a variety of al fresco sitting areas.
Detached houses in this price range, complete with integral annexe and garden, are very hard to find. A period home with personality and within walking distance of the London train line - which offers all of this, as well as enjoying a locally elusive commodity, copious off-road, private space for parking - is a rare find.
THE PROPERTY IS BEING OFFERED WITHOUT AN ONWARD CHAIN.
The vendor says:
"This pretty cottage is located in an enviable off-road position in a semi-rural village above the city. The neighbourhood is an oasis of peace and quiet where people look out for one another. Yet, in less than half an hour, you can walk down from here to the central train and bus stations, or catch the number 2 bus, and be in the buzz of 'town'.”
“The air up here is fresh, and there is zero risk of flooding!"
She continues:
"Because of the cottage's enviable location - set back from the main road and away from nearly all of the surrounding houses - you really have a sense of space and being in the countryside, which rolls out in all directions from here. Combe Down sits at the top of Ralph Allen Drive, perched on one of the seven hills surrounding the historic World Heritage spa city of Bath.”
“Turn left at the top of the hill, then immediately right down Oxford Place and you'll find Victoria Cottage at the end of the lane on the left hand side. Its open plan current-day layout, which includes a south facing rear extension built in 1998, provides flexible living space and offers a number of possibilities: intergenerational living, home office use and/or additional letting potential income.”
“As you come in through the front door the quarry tiled entrance hall, flooded with light from its large window, offers loads of room to hang coats and store shoes, and a large understairs broom cupboard - an unexpected feature in such a compact home.”
“The comparatively large kitchen affords additional room for a breakfast area perfect for sitting and chatting, with a good view of the garden and the lane. There's an integral dishwasher to the left of the Belfast Sink, and space for an American fridge to the right of the window. A utility cupboard for a washer and tumble dryer, situated in the annexe/extension, ensures the kitchen can remain uncluttered by large appliances. The open oak work surfaces and coloured tiles combine to make this a cheery, welcoming favourite living space - as, traditionally, a kitchen should be.”
“A handsome open fireplace graces the main area at the heart of the house - the living and dining rooms. There is also an attractive grate in the master bedroom. We are not sure where the fire places of all of the five signature chimneys which make this cottage so unique were originally situated.”
“The upstairs bedrooms, with the Jack and Jill bathroom, and the third bedroom and bathroom downstairs - with their possible independent entrance round the back - would be a great setting for a bedroom farce! Alternately, the door into bedroom No 2 could be kept locked and the upstairs bathroom purely used as an ensuite to the master bedroom, with the 'family' bathroom downstairs.”
“While the cottage is situated in a conservation area, in recent years planning permission has been granted to a number of neighbours for garden buildings. You can see from the aerial image that it's remarkably unoverlooked. There is plenty of room for the erection of a garden office or studio (subject to the necessary planning consents being approved), a conservatory (planning permission granted in 2015; now expired) or the creation of a kitchen garden, without materially affecting the feeling of surrounding space.”