Property description

Benefiting from significant recent enhancements as well as an end corner setting with South Westerly views to the rear, a first floor 2 bedroom retirement apartment in an age exclusive complex within impressive landscaped level grounds.

Description
Since 2011, the apartment has benefited from uPVC double glazing featuring white internal frames with trickle vents, a refitted kitchen, a shower room in white livery, and a stairlift. Further important distinctions include a window giving natural light in the shower room and easy access to the neighbouring drying area and communal gardens. The sitting/dining room and kitchen enjoy the South Westerly aspect whilst the 2 bedrooms overlook the central gardens. The development was built in 1986 by Laing Homes Limited with the age restriction that a purchaser must be at least 60 years old. Design characteristics include light ash style doors, wardrobe facilities for both bedrooms, electric/storage heating, light and power switchplates at a user friendly height, and a reception hall independently accessing all the rooms except the kitchen. The entryphone system has been enhanced with emergency calling stations and pullcords also with a personal pendant.

Location
Set within lovely extensive gardens with associated residents parking, the apartment is in a complex of 48 apartments and maisonettes lying to the North Eastern side of Alton's historic town centre. The station has a direct line to Waterloo (minimum journey time 67 minutes) with other neighbourhood facilities including a Waitrose store, shops, the Alton House Hotel, Palace Cinema, Wilson Practice Health Centre and Anstey Road Pharmacy, the adjacent Brendoncare complex with its respite and long term care facilities, St Mary's RC Church, a vets and King's Pond. The High Street is within 0.5 mile where major shops such as M&S, Boots and Iceland will be found with Sainsbury's just beyond. The town also has weekly and specialist open air markets, interest societies, churches of several denominations, Alton College, a sports centre, a network of footpaths and, on the outskirts, 2 golf courses.

Ground Floor
Covered entrance with courtesy light and letterboxes. Entryphone system. Single glazed door with matching side windows to:-

Communal Hall
Push button lighting, storage heater, thermo plastic tiled floor, emergency pullcord/calling system. Matching wood balustraded straight stairs with wooden handrail and fitted Acorn stairlift to:-

First Floor
Balustraded landing with Velux window. Cupboard housing electric meters. Light ash style finished personal front door with spy glass to:-

Reception Hall - 9' 5'' x 4' 2'' (2.87m x 1.27m) main area
Reverse L-shaped. Archway and mirrored display alcove. Entryphone with automatic door release, telephone point (subject to connection). Chrome finished downlighting, storage heater, fitted coat hooks, electric consumer unit. Built-in airing cupboard - electric bar heater. Hinged large hatch to loft fitted with fold-down wooden ladder, light and part boarding. From hall, pair of glazed panelled doors opening to:-

Sitting/Dining Room - 18' 3'' x 10' 3'' (5.56m x 3.12m)
Rear aspect overlooking landscaped communal and neighbouring grounds towards Station. Including display alcove with fitted ornament shelves. Pair of fitted wall uplighters, Dimplex storage heater, fitted pine display shelf, coved ceiling, TV aerial conneciton, telephone point (subject to connection), Tunstall emergency calling system and pullcord. Shared access to satellite dish with Free-Sat box included in the sale. Fitted corner pine display top/breakfast bar. Panelled sliding door to:-

Kitchen - 8' 2'' x 7' 8'' (2.49m x 2.34m)
Rear aspect overlooking gardens and grounds towards station. Refitted to maple effect with brushed chrome finished handles incorporating Zanussi ceramic hob and stainless steel chimney style hood. Presenting floor cupboards with corner carousel, multiple utensils and pan drawers, 3 open shelves - space for microwave/oven, slide out larder, quartz effect laminated worktops inset with stainless steel single drainer sink and mono mixer, white tiled splashbacks and double pelmeted wall cabinets. Bosch white ClassixX slimline dishwasher and Beko A+ Class white fridge/freezer with integral water dispenser may be available for inclusion in the sale by negotiation if required. Limestone effect ceramic tiled floor, strip light, heat detector, towel rails.

Bedroom One - 11' 9'' x 8' 6'' (3.58m x 2.59m)
Front garden aspect. Fitted pine display shelf, slimline heater, telephone point (subject to connection). Pair of louvred doors to:-

Walk-in Wardrobe - 6' 0'' x 4' 10'' (1.83m x 1.47m) overall
Open fitted series of hanging rails, shelving and top storage. Light, fitted coat hooks.

Bedroom Two - 11' 1'' x 5' 9'' (3.38m x 1.75m)
Including door recess and built-in part shelved corner wardrobe. Front garden aspect. Fitted pine display shelf, slimline heater.

Shower Room - 8' 0'' x 6' 8'' (2.44m x 2.03m) overall
Refitted to white scheme with suite of wide tiled shower enclosure with sliding glazed entry door and screen, and Aqualisa Aquastream shower fitting, pedestal wash basin and dual flush soft closing WC, both with chrome finished fittings. White tiling to visible walls, chrome finished downlighting, automatic extractor fan, limestone effect ceramic tiled floor. Side window. Myson chrome heated towel rail/radiator, mirrored medicine cabinet, glass shelf and chrome finished fittings. Emergency pullcord. Corner built-in cupboard housing higher level hot water cylinder with 2 immersion heaters plus space below with plumbing for washing machine (Zanussi white Essential 1600 6kg washing machine may be available for inclusion in the sale by negotiation).

Outside

Residents Car Park
In block pavioured central square at front of property. Additionally 2 associated parking areas.

Communal Gardens
Are landscaped to a colourful design, relatively level and face South Westerly to the rear, a lawn with flower beds/shrubs, which back onto the tree studded grounds of Alton Health Centre. At side covered bin store. Clothes drying area. The front square has low height brick walls containing stocked flower beds and shrubberies with several decorative trees, seating areas, tarmacadam style paths, external lighting and several covered walkways. There is a further impressive tree studded lawned communal garden to the far side of Adams House, which forms the Northerly side of the quadrangle. Adjacent locked gate leading to the Wilson Practice Health Centre and Anstey Road Pharmacy. We gather all the grounds are maintained by the management company.

Communal Facilities
There is a residents lounge and an Estate Manager, who resides in the development.

NB
1. Photographs shown may include views from the apartment and scenes of the communal grounds.2. We gather the property is a leasehold tenure with a lease of 99 years from 29th August 1986. Peppercorn ground rent.

Directions
From the Palace Cinema mini-roundabout at the Eastern end of Drayman's Way/Orchard Lane, the town's inner relief road, proceed away from the town on Normandy Street becoming Anstey Road. After passing the Alton Health Centre/Anstey Road Pharmacy on the right, turn next right into Adams Way. Turn first right into the parking quadrangle where the apartment is in the bottom right hand corner.

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