Property description
A BEAUTIFUL DETACHED FORMER SCHOOL HOUSE : Offering spacious family accommodation throughout with numerous period features.
Entrance Porch, Hallway, Sitting Room (over 21ft long), Dining Room, Breakfast Kitchen, Utility Room, 3 Bedrooms, En-Suite Shower Room, Family Bathroom, Cloakroom/WC, First Floor Gallery Family Room, Gated Driveway, Double Garage (with WC), Gardens, No Upward Chain, Energy Rating: D.
Situation
Doseley is a long established former village style residential locality occupying a central position within Telford but retaining its original village style environment. It is very conveniently situated just under 2 miles south west of the excellent range of shopping and recreational facilities at the Telford town centre with its wide range of recreational and shopping facilities, including the New Southwater development, the M54 motorway and the town’s central railway station. The historic town of Ironbridge, which is a World Heritage Site, is some 3 miles to the south of Horsehay and Horsehay Golf Course is about 1 mile away.
The property
Comprises a most impressive and very distinctive detached residence originally constructed in the early 1900’s as the local school for the immediate area and linked with the local church and former vicarage nearby. The building was subsequently converted around 1988 to a most interesting internal layout, which provides very distinctive and spacious family size accommodation which incorporates and retains the period features including external inscribed initials in the brickwork believed to be those of pupils and teachers at the time as well as a foundation stone (now used as the front step) and commemoration plaque, whilst combining modern refinements and facilities.
Accommodation
An entrance porch gives access to the reception hall which has exposed boarded flooring, staircase ascending to the first floor, under stairs cupboard and double multi-glazed panel doors leading to the sitting room and access to the inner hall which gives access to three ground floor bedrooms, bathroom and separate cloakroom/wc. The sitting room has an open fireplace with wood burning stove and exposed brickwork, door to dining room and door to breakfast kitchen. The dining room has exposed ceiling beams and loft hatch access point. The breakfast kitchen has a range of shaker style base and wall units, one and a half bowl stainless steel sink unit, rolled edge work surfaces, space and plumbing for dishwasher, ‘Leisure Zenith’ 110 gas range cooker, larder cupboard and door to utility room where there is a further range of matching units, stainless steel sink unit, space and plumbing for washing machine, wall mounted gas central heating boiler and door to the garden. The ground floor bedroom two has the benefit of an en-suite shower room/wc with half tiled walls and a suite comprising shower cubicle, wc, bidet and vanity unit with inset bowl whilst the ground floor bedroom three has the benefit of an en-suite dressing room with vanity bowl. The ground floor bathroom/wc has half tiled walls and a white suire comprising panelled bath with mixer tap and shower attachment, wc, bidet and wash basin. The separate cloakroom/wc has a wc and wash basin.
The vendors utilise the first floor space as a family room and master bedroom with en-suite. There is restricted head height access woth low beams and as such building regulations approval has not been given for this use.
Outside
The property is entered through electrically operated double gates to a long driveway providing ample parking with twin paved runways and dressed York stone infill which continues in front of the property where there is an additional separate pedestrian gate; the driveway is bounded by well stocked shrub beds and at the rear is the detached brick/tile double garage with electrically operated up and over door, power and lighting points, external front lighting and rear cold water tap; to the rear there is a timber garden shed and log store. The rear garden includes a patio area and a lawn sloping gently away from the house and being well screened by mature hedges, trees and fencing. There is also further external lighting and a cold water tap.
How to get there – from Telford town centre take the A442 (Queensway towards Bridgnorth) then the A4169 towards Much Wenlock; at the Jiggers roundabout take the third exit to the right and after about 400 yards turn right towards Horsehay; at the mini roundabout turn right into Woodhouse Lane, which in turn becomes Frame Lane and then St. Lukes Road; just beyond the junction with Doseley Road turn right up the small unmade lane – the property is the second of just three properties on the left.
Tenure – we are advised the property is Freehold.
Services – we are advised all mains services are connected.
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