Geralds Way, Chalford, Stroud, GL6

Chain Free - A spacious four bedroom detached house situated in Geralds Way on the Manor Farm estate around five miles East of Stroud. The surrounding area is well known locally for its good community and mixed demographic benefitting from a local convenience store, well-established primary schools, secondary school and a park. This location allows for straight forward access to the shops, amenities and train station of Stroud via the A419. The ground floor comprises an entrance hallway with vacuum cupboard and modern downstairs w/c, bay-fronted living room with woodburning stove, a kitchen/dining room with integrated oven/hob and access to the rear garden with a utility housing the boiler and a side access. On the first floor is a landing with a window over and storage cupboards, bedroom four, double bedrooms for bedroom two and three both with fitted wardrobes, modern family bathroom with shower over the bath and LED demisting mirror and a master bedroom with two sets of built in wardrobes and an en-suite shower room also with LED demisting mirror. Windows to the rear of the property have a south-south easterly aspect so enjoys sun for a lot of the day into the kitchen/dining room as do bedroom two and three. The property benefits from gas central heating, cavity wall insulation and double glazing whilst the woodburner assists with warming the house. The current vendors have improved the property by replacing the cloakroom, bathroom and en-suite shower room, replacing the boiler and erecting new garden fencing.

The interior is complemented by having a good-size south facing garden accessed via the sides of the house or from the kitchen/dining room. The garden is split between a patio seating area immediately out from the kitchen, a lawn area and a further seating terrace at the bottom of the garden with various planted borders around. The garage can be accessed via a side door and up and over door with driveway parking for two cars to the front.

The area is popular for its mix of beautiful countryside and convenient amenities, which includes schools, pubs and several lovely playing fields. People have been calling this area home for at least 5,000 years, but it really developed in the 16th century when many of the stone cottages were built illegally to house cloth workers from the mills expanding in the valley below. Bussage is a village of two parts - the older part with the church and the lovely traditional Cotswold pub, the Ram Inn, while the newer part is home to a large estate of about 900 homes, built in the 1980s around Manor Farm, with road names such as Tanglewood Way and Cuckoo Close that belie its rural history. The area was once thickly wooded - Frith Wood, a 19-acre wood to the south of the estate with public access, is a small remaining part. A small shopping centre on the estate includes Tesco Express, Boots Pharmacy, a doctors’ surgery and a community centre, while there is a dentists’ surgery and petrol station at nearby Fourways. The parish church of Bussage was founded by Thomas Keble, who gave his name to the local secondary school, which has a leisure centre and gym open to the community and a range of facilities which can be hired. Bussage also has its own primary school. There are lots of lovely walks in the area, including Toadsmoor Lake and Dimmel’s Dale nature reserve. The larger town of Stroud (4 miles) has a direct train line to London and an award-winning farmers’ market.

'Vendor's Comment'
"Facing South in the rear garden, I'll bathe you in sunlight throughout the day, and during the cooler months when the temperature falls, I'll keep you toasty warm with my wood burning stove. In the last 17 years I've proudly witnessed the infants become adults and have survived many Star Wars Lego battles, some won, some lost. Now they have fledged, I'm ready to welcome my next family"

Tenure
Freehold

Services
We are informed that all mains services are connected to the property.

Council Tax Band
E