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£2,200,000

Gorse Corner, Townsend Drive, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, AL3

  • 5 beds
Detached house

£2,200,000

  • 5 beds
Detached house
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6 Gorse Corner is an attractive red brick Georgian-style family home offering light-filled flexible accommodation arranged in an L-shaped configuration over three floors. Designed to provide an ideal family and entertaining space and featuring sash glazing throughout, the ground floor accommodation flows from a welcoming wooden-floored reception hall with useful modern cloakroom. It includes a spacious rear aspect
drawing room with feature cast iron fireplace, a generous front aspect dining room and a well-proportioned music room with feature parquet
flooring. The extensive 29 ft. kitchen/breakfast room has a range of wall and base units including a breakfast bar, complementary worktops and
splashbacks, a useful neighbouring fitted utility room, and a breakfast area with space for a good-sized table. From here French doors open to a family room with a large bay window incorporating French doors to the rear terrace.

On the first floor the property offers a spacious principal bedroom with extensive built-in storage and en suite bathroom, an additional double bedroom with en suite shower room, two well-proportioned bedrooms and a family bathroom. The property’s remaining double bedroom and a further family shower room can be found on the second floor.

The property is located right in the heart of the conservation area and less than half a mile from the city centre, with its wealth of amenities including shopping and leisure activities. Both
the Abbey and Verulamium Park are close at hand. The mainline station, with its fast through services via St.Pancras International to the City (19
mins), Gatwick and beyond. Road users enjoy easy access to the M1, M25 and the A1(M) and to the airports at Heathrow, Luton and Stansted.
The property is served by a wide range of nearby state primary and secondary schooling as well as a good selection of independent schools including St. Albans, St. Albans High School for Girls and St. Columba’s College.

Set against a backdrop of mature trees and having plenty of kerb appeal, the property is approached
over a low maintenance block-paved driveway providing private parking and giving access to the integral double garage. The enclosed garden
to the rear is laid mainly to level lawn bordered by mature flower and shrub beds and features a gravelled parterre-style garden, a generous
paved terrace and a separate paved barbecue/seating area, ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining.
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£2,200,000

5 bed house for sale

Gorse Corner, Townsend Drive, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, AL3


6 Gorse Corner is an attractive red brick Georgian-style family home offering light-filled flexible accommodation arranged in an L-shaped configuration over three floors. Designed to provide an ideal family and entertaining space and featuring sash glazing throughout, the ground floor accommodation flows from a welcoming wooden-floored reception hall with useful modern cloakroom. It includes a spacious rear aspect
drawing room with feature cast iron fireplace, a generous front aspect dining room and a well-proportioned music room with feature parquet
flooring. The extensive 29 ft. kitchen/breakfast room has a range of wall and base units including a breakfast bar, complementary worktops and
splashbacks, a useful neighbouring fitted utility room, and a breakfast area with space for a good-sized table. From here French doors open to a family room with a large bay window incorporating French doors to the rear terrace.

On the first floor the property offers a spacious principal bedroom with extensive built-in storage and en suite bathroom, an additional double bedroom with en suite shower room, two well-proportioned bedrooms and a family bathroom. The property’s remaining double bedroom and a further family shower room can be found on the second floor.

The property is located right in the heart of the conservation area and less than half a mile from the city centre, with its wealth of amenities including shopping and leisure activities. Both
the Abbey and Verulamium Park are close at hand. The mainline station, with its fast through services via St.Pancras International to the City (19
mins), Gatwick and beyond. Road users enjoy easy access to the M1, M25 and the A1(M) and to the airports at Heathrow, Luton and Stansted.
The property is served by a wide range of nearby state primary and secondary schooling as well as a good selection of independent schools including St. Albans, St. Albans High School for Girls and St. Columba’s College.

Set against a backdrop of mature trees and having plenty of kerb appeal, the property is approached
over a low maintenance block-paved driveway providing private parking and giving access to the integral double garage. The enclosed garden
to the rear is laid mainly to level lawn bordered by mature flower and shrub beds and features a gravelled parterre-style garden, a generous
paved terrace and a separate paved barbecue/seating area, ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining.