Property description

CHAIN-FREE SALE Directly adjoining and accessing the pleasant communal gardens, a ground floor 1 double bedroom age exclusive apartment in a distinctive 1999 built scheme within 250 yards level walk of the High Street.

Description
Attractively maintained also with the benefit of a shower room and an interesting outlook to Rack Close Road, the property was constructed by McCarthy & Stone (Developments) Limited, nationally known specialist retirement developers, a condition of purchase being that residents are over the age of 60 years or in the event of a couple, one must be over the age of 60 years and the other over 55 years. Features include double glazing with trickle vents and security locks, Economy 7 electric storage heating, coved ceilings, a complement of maple effect and glazed panelled internal doors, and moulded skirting boards and architraves. Power and light switchplates are at a strategic height.

Communal Facilities
Communal facilities for this development of 72 flats include a lift, residents lounge, laundry, a twin bedded guest room, and a number of alternative external doors allowing shorter access to the adjoining roads of Ackender Road and Rack Close Road leading in turn to the High Street and Westbrooke public gardens. In addition, there is a video door entry system linked to residents TV, a resident House Manager, a 24-hour emergency Careline system, a security alarm and refuse area.

Location
Set within level landscaped communal gardens, Willow Court is a 2/3 storey development fronting Ackender and Rack Close Roads, which are access-only roads lying on the Western side of Alton's historic town centre. There are individual and multiple shops, M&S, Sainsbury's, Boots and Iceland stores, a library, hotels and restaurants, a museum and gallery, and a variety of associations. Alton also has Westbrooke Gardens reached via a residents gate onto Rack Close Road with its bowls club and seasonal programme of events, weekly street and farmers market events, a train station (Waterloo line) with an adjacent Waitrose store, a sports centre and 2 outlying golf courses.

Ground Floor

Communal Hall
Via glazed double main doors with entryphone system and CCTV to vestibule. Further doors into hall with reception/seating area and adjoining residents lounge. Right hand hallway with dado rails, heating and lighting leading to:-

Reception Hall - 7' 9'' x 6' 10 (2.36m x 2.08m) at extremes
Entered via panelled personal front door with spyglass to hall. Tunstall Statesman entryphone system with automatic door release. Smoke detector, Electrisaver Electronic Timer, emergency pull cord. Walk-in 6'2\" x 2'10\" cupboard - recessed airing shelves and Gledhill PulsaCoil III mains pressure hot water system with dual immersion heaters, light, electric consumer unit and meter.

Sitting/Dining Room - 21' 2'' x 10' 8 (6.45m x 3.25m) overall
Adam style fireplace with marble theme surround and hearth, mantelpiece and coal effect electric fire. Dimplex storage heater, TV/FM aerial and 2 telephone points (subject to connection), emergency pullcord. French door and window to covered paved bay/walled communal gardens. From living room, pair of glazed panelled doors to:-

Kitchen - 7' 7'' x 7' 0 (2.31m x 2.13m) overall
Overlooking gardens. Fitted to a light flecked theme with oak style trim, integrated with white Electrolux series of split level electric oven, electric hob and hood. Presenting floor cupboards, top drawers, tray receptacle, laminated angled worktops inset with stainless steel single drainer sink, tiled splashbacks interspersed with berry motifs, and matching double pelmetted wall cabinets with open book/ornament display shelves. Spaces for fridge and freezer (Hotpoint fridge and freezer, and Hinari microwave are available for inclusion as extras if required). Vinyl flooring, Dimplex wall convector heater, emergency pullcord.

Double Bedroom - 15' 1'' x 9' 2 (4.59m x 2.79m) including window bay
Excluding door recess and built in-part shelved double wardrobe with folding mirrored doors. Dimplex storage heater, telephone socket (subject to connection), emergency pullcord.

Shower Room - 6' 10'' x 5' 6 (2.08m x 1.68m)
Formerly bathroom. Wide glazed and tiled shower cubicle with white framework and tray. Suite of vanity wash basin with double cupboard below and shaving light above, and WC. Tiling to visible walls, utensils/display sill, mirrored double medicine cabinet, electric heated towel rail, Dimplex wall convector heater, extractor fan with isolator.

Outside

Residents Car Park
Tarmacadam style surface with adjoining floodlights and standard lamps.

Communal Landscaped Gardens
Directly adjoining the French door of the living room and the kitchen window are attractive lawned and shrubbery gardens contained within metal fences and brick walling to the boundary. The large central level lawn is sheltered by the U shape of the building and has seating areas, colourful shrubberies, stocked and shingle borders, ornamental trees, posted lights and tarmacadam style paths. A water feature and brick pavioured terrace adjoin the main communal hall within the well tended landscaping scheme.

NB:
1. The tenure is Leasehold. We understand that the lease is for 125 years from 1st July 1999. The ground rent payable half yearly is currently £165 and the service charge payable for the period 1st March 2014 - 28th February 2015 was approximately £1,557.24. The service charge, we gather, apart from the normal items includes building insurance, water and sewerage rates, and window cleaning.2. Please note that photographs shown may include scenes within the development eg the residents lounge, and scenes within neighbouring Westbrooke Gardens.

Directions
From the M & S Simply Food store at the South Western end of High Street, Alton, proceed away from the town on Butts Road. Turn first right before the BP garage into Ackender Road. Willow Court archway and car park is second on the right. Once inside Willow Court, the apartment is along the right-hand hallway being the fifth on the left.


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