Property description
Taking advantage of a ground floor setting with direct access to the lovely gardens from the sitting/dining room, a prestigiously located 2 bedroom ground floor Close Care retirement apartment in the highly respected Brendoncare Foundation scheme.
Description
Enjoying a twin aspect, the apartment is carefully designed to create independant access to all the rooms except the kitchen from the light and airy reception hall. The sitting/dining room and principal bedroom claim a rear garden aspect with bedroom two looking South Easterly across the main landscaped quadrangle. There are wood finished internal doors, smooth finished ceilings and double glazing with night ventilators and security locks, whilst heating is provided by an electrically sourced system. Mary Rose Mews is an architect design complex of 46 age exclusive apartments (minimum age 60 years) served by colonaded loggias, supplemented by 2 lifts and set in the delightful broad level grounds of the Brendoncare care centre.
Location
Situated on the Easterly side of Alton\‘s historic town centre, Mary Rose Mews has a Waitrose store, the station (Waterloo line), bus services, Anstey Park, St Mary\‘s RC Church, Alton Health Centre, a dental surgery and Anstey Road Pharmacy in the neighbourhood. The town affords a variety of individual and multiple shops, stores such as Boots, M&S and Sainsbury\‘s, weekly and specialist open air market events, a library, further churches, restaurants, hotels and inns, cultural facilities and an interesting history with connections to the English Civil War, Jane Austen and hop growing.
Entrance
Approached by wide tarmacadam style path through level gardens with posted lights to:-
Colonnaded Loggia
Paved with lighting at regular intervals. External electric meter box beside light oak style personal front door with spyglass and single glazed panel to:-
Reception Hall - overall 20\‘ (6.09m) - main area 11\‘ 9\‘\‘ x 6\‘ 2\‘\‘ (3.58m x 1.88m)
Front garden aspect. Coved ceiling, fitted shelf unit, heating control, smoke detector. Recently installed replacement emergency call system. Electric consumer units. 2 fitted mirrors. Built-in airing cupboard - higher level hot water cylinder, immersion heater, Boost Control.
Sitting/Dining Room - 14\‘ 4\‘\‘ x 9\‘ 7\‘\‘ (4.37m x 2.92m) overall
Featuring French door with windows either side to part covered patio and lawned communal gardens. Mahogany style decorative pillared double mantelpiece with free standing coal effect electric fire. Coved ceiling, TV aerial and telephone sockets (subject to connection), heating control, smoke detector, emergency pullcord, half glazed door to hall.
Kitchen - 7\‘ 10\‘\‘ x 6\‘ 9\‘\‘ (2.39m x 2.06m)
Approached from sitting/dining room via opening. Fitted in white with floor cupboards, two sets of drawers, laminated worktops with inset stainless steel single drainer sink and tiled splashbacks, and matching wall cabinets with mirror. Belling Solitaire white electric cooker. Plumbing for washing machine, space for fridge/freezer, fluorescent light, vinyl flooring, separately switched extractor fan.
Bedroom One - 12\‘ 8\‘\‘ x 9\‘ 6\‘\‘ (3.86m x 2.89m) plus wide built-in part shelved double wardrobe
Rear garden aspect. Coved ceiling, lighting point, TV aerial and telephone sockets (subject to connection). Heating control, emergency pullcord.
Bedroom Two - 8\‘ 9\‘\‘ x 7\‘10\‘\‘ (2.66m x 2.39m)
Front garden aspect. Coved ceiling, heating control, emergency pullcord.
Shower Room - 8\‘ 6\‘\‘ x 6\‘ 11\‘\‘ (2.59m x 2.11m)
Fitted with white suite and chrome finished fittings providing corner tiled and glazed shower cubicle with Triton T100si shower fitting, oval wash basin with tiled splashback, mirror and shaving light, bidet and WC. White heated towel rail, mirrored medicine cabinet, emergency pullcord, 2 chrome towel rails, WC handrail aid.
Outside
The Communal Gardens
Are well established, level and colourfully landscaped. The main central front area has lawns with a network of wide paved paths, well stocked flower borders, ornamental trees, posted footway lights and central circular sun terrace with seating areas and raised brick shrubberies. Adjoining the sitting/dining room French door and paved patio, the encompassing gardens present continuous lawns with further borders, ornamental trees and lower height Beech hedges and fences to the boundaries with gate to Anstey Road.
Car Park
Adjoins the main gardens and entrance with residents and visitors spaces.
Communal Facilities
24 hour emergency alarm system linked to the in-house nursing home - communal gardens and grounds - use of a communal room for gatherings - extra services at an additional charge such as meals, laundry service, hairdressing, etc - further details on request - social events arranged.
NB
1. The property is a leasehold tenure on a 99 year lease from 25 March 19972. The condition of the heating system and/or other appliances is not known
Directions
From the Palace Cinema mini-roundabout at the station end of Drayman\‘s Way, Alton\‘s inner relief road, proceed away from the town on Normandy Street passing the Alton House Hotel on the right. Do not deviate, the road changes its name to Anstey Road. After the Alton Health Centre and Anstey Road Pharmacy on the right, turn shortly right into Adams Way. Turn first left into the Brendoncare car park.
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