Property description

An appealing 2 double bedroom end terraced retirement cottage in an highly regarded 1989 scheme with its own part walled garden and triple aspect accommodation.

Description
Built McInerney Homes, the property benefits from not only its high quality location but also an excellent layout centred upon a good sized hall and light and airy landing. There is also a twin aspect living room, a user friendly refitted shower room, replacement double glazing to a dark wood effect externally and white finish internally incorporating trickle vents and security window locks, a good supply of built-in cupboards and a vistas across and down Lenten Street. The cottage is at the very end of a slightly varying staggered terrace within a development of 34 homes consisting of these 2 storey cottages and a 3 storey detached, similarly eye-catching block of mainly 1 bedroom retirement apartments. The age restriction is a minimum 60 years with the scheme benefiting from communal facilities as detailed below. Further characteristics include Ash style internal doors with moulded architraves and skirting boards, internal transom windows and a gas heating system with individual thermostatic controls to the radiators and a replacement boiler.

Location
The Cooperage is a small mews style close consisting of 34 age-restricted apartments and cottages, and lies directly between Lenten Street, one of Alton's most attractive roads, and Westbrooke Gardens, the town's central public gardens, which have a programme of open air events, a bandstand and a bowling green. The neighbourhood includes the Market Square, town shops and stores, restaurants and inns, a library, community centre and walks beside the Wey Stream as well as through the town centre. The ambience of this old market town includes a weekly street market, regular specialist and historic events, local societies, and the Curtis Museum and the Allen Gallery. There are Sainsbury's and M & S in-town stores, a station (Waterloo line) with an adjacent Waitrose store, fitness clubs, doctors surgeries and, on the outskirts, a retail park, a sports centre and two golf courses. Alton is renowned for its Civil War and brewing history, the Watercress steam railway line and its much cherished connections with Jane Austen.

Ground Floor
Outside light and single glazed slatted panelled wooden front door to:-

Reception Hall - 14' 2'' x 7' 0'' (4.31m x 2.13m) overall including stairway
Built-in louvered double cloaks cupboard + shelf, electric consumer unit and open storage above. Radiator, thermostat, telephone point (subject to connection), smoke detector. Built-in part shelved hoover cupboard.

Cloakroom
Front window. White soft closing WC to raised design, corner wash basin and tiled splash back. Radiator, emergency pull cord. Angled louvred shelved cupboard. Ceiling hatch.

Sitting/Dining Room - 14' 11'' x 14' 6'' (4.54m x 4.42m)
Twin aspect featuring replacement french door to patio/rear garden. Rear aspect window and timber framed port hole window giving side aspect. Coved ceiling, 2 radiators, TV, satellite and radio aerial sockets (subject to tariff), emergency pull cord, telephone socket (subject to connection). Built-in understairs store cupboard.

Kitchen - 10' 5'' x 7' 1'' (3.17m x 2.16m) overall
Front courtyard aspect. Fitted to light oak theme with brass finished handles providing floor cupboards, top drawers, tray space, laminated worktops inset with stainless steel single drainer sink, oatmeal tiled splash backs and matching double pelmetted wall cabinets and Zanussi cooker hood. Additional glass fronted high level display/storage unit, further wall cupboard. Zanussi electric cooker, Whirlpool washing machine and Electrolux fridge/freezer to remain at no extra cost. Fluorescent light, radiator, emergency pull cord, mosaic effect vinyl flooring.

First Floor
From reception hall, wooden spindle balustraded straight stairs with fitted Stannah stair lift to:-

Galleried Landing
Side outlook via oriel window to Westbrooke Road. L-shaped with matching wooden spindle gallery. Built-in airing cupboard - hot water cylinder, immersion heater. Hinged hatch fitted with sliding aluminium ladder to loft - wall hung Potterton Suprima HE gas boiler, light, part boarded.

Bedroom One - 14' 6'' x 9' 9'' (4.42m x 2.97m)
Rear aspect over own and neighbouring gardens across Lenten Street to both William Curtis House and The Old House. Radiator, TV aerial and telephone socket (subject to connection), emergency pull cord.

Bedroom Two - Over 14'6 (4.42m) main area, 11' 1'' x 8' 8'' (3.38m x 2.64m)
Front courtyard aspect. Radiator, emergency pull cord. Built-in deep shelved bulk head cupboard. Recess - potential space for wardrobe/furniture.

Shower Room
Refitted with white suite and chrome fittings formerly a bathroom. Presenting wide walk-in shower with part folding glazed screen, Triton fitment, 2 chrome hand rails , seat/utensils top and emergency pull cord, pedestal wash basin + mono tap and soft closing WC with dual flush and hideaway cistern. Limestone effect tiling to visible walls with mosaic keyline, sink top illuminated mirror and shaver socket, chrome multiple heated towel rail, ash effect laminated floor and extractor fan with isolator.

Outside

Residents Parking
Brick pavioured and red tarmacadam style adjacent to the front of the cottage with posted lights in landscaping scheme.

Front Garden
Slate border and paved path to front door with integral external store - electric and gas meters. Outside tap.

Rear Garden
A full width paved patio adjoins the sitting/dining room with ledged and braced side gate. A low height brick wall and double step with hand rail leads to the lawn and shrubbery/flower borders beyond. The rear garden is enclosed and part brick walled with elevated paved sun terrace and timber garden store, backing onto and with views down Lenten Street.

Communal Facilities
There is a resident House Manager, a central reception area with cloakrooms, impressive and extensive hallways, both a lift and staircases in the block of retirement flats opposite, a laundry room and a residents lounge, which has a kitchen area and patio doors opening directly onto a sun loggia and communal gardens.

NB
We gather from our client that the tenure is leasehold with an extended 189 year lease from 24 March 1989. A maintenance charge is payable to include buildings insurance and water and sewerage rates - further details upon request.

Directions
From the row of banks opposite the Swan Hotel on High Street, Alton, turn right beside Boots The Chemist up Market Street. At the Market Square continue, straight ahead towards Basingstoke becoming Lenten Street and then turn first left towards Ladyplace car park. The Cooperage is immediately on the right with the cottage being the last on the right hand side.

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