Lower Paxton Road, St. Albans, Hertfordshire

£685,000

Guide price

• Storm porch

• Entrance hall

• Sitting room

• Living room

• Kitchen/breakfast room

• Cloakroom

• 3 Bedrooms

• Store room/bedroom 4

• Family bathroom

• Garden

• EPC rating E

Bullet Points

Storm porch | Entrance hall | Sitting room | Living room | Kitchen/breakfast room | Cloakroom | 3 Bedrooms | Store room/bedroom 4 | Family bathroom | Garden | EPC rating E

The property

2 Lower Paxton Road is an attractive period family home offering attractive accommodation arranged over three floors, sensitively-extended and modernised to combine the amenities of modern living with character features including sash windows. Designed to provide an open plan family and entertaining space, the ground floor accommodation flows from a welcoming entrance hall and comprises a generous sitting room with a cast iron open fireplace opening into a spacious living room, both rooms featuring exposed wooden flooring. There is also a large rear aspect kitchen/breakfast room with a range of contemporary wall and base units including a large breakfast bar, a range cooker, modern integrated appliances and bi-fold doors to the rear courtyard garden.

On the first floor the property offers a spacious front aspect principal bedroom with exposed wooden flooring and bespoke built-in storage, an additional well-proportioned double bedroom, a rear aspect store room with potential for use as an additional bedroom if required and a modern fully-tiled family bathroom. The property's remaining bedroom with vaulted ceiling, Velux glazing and useful eaves storage can be found on the second floor.

Mileages

St. Albans City station 0.5 mile (London St. Pancras International 19 minutes), M25 (Jct. 21A) 3.5 miles, M1 (Jct. 6) 4.7 miles, London Luton Airport 12.1 miles, London Heathrow Airport 26.5 miles

The 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, marketplace 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 has a thriving cultural life, with regular concerts and theatre productions held in a variety of local venues, as well as many 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 area offers a wide range of state schooling including St. Peter's School and Loreto College (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 well-maintained paved front garden enclosed by picket fencing. The enclosed courtyard garden to the rear is paved for ease of maintenance, providing an ideal space for entertaining and al fresco dining.