St. Kenelms Avenue, Halesowen

A stylish and contemporary family home, which has a stunning extension at the rear featuring a beamed and vaulted ceiling.

This immaculately presented property has been beautifully decorated and finished to the highest of standards. The accommodation includes a through-lounge, a contemporary kitchen, a garden room, a utility room, a shower room and a room with a vaulted and beamed ceiling currently used as a formal dining room on the ground floor. Upstairs, there are three bedrooms and a house shower room.

The property is approached via a sweeping driveway providing plentiful off-road parking for several vehicles, with a raised brick bed to the fore featuring a fir tree. There is courtesy lighting to the side of the front door, which opens into a part-brick and glazed porch. Situated to the rear, there is a mature family-friendly garden.


Entrance hallway
The entrance porch has built-in blinds and a further door opening into the welcoming entrance hallway. The hallway has a staircase rising to the first floor, an understairs storage cupboard and doors accessing the ground floor accommodation.


Lounge
Situated to the left of the hallway is a sizeable through-lounge, with the focal point being a living flame coal effect gas fire with feature fire surround and downlighters. This lovely room also features wall light points, a large bay window to the front with built-in blinds and glazed double doors to the garden room.


Garden room
The garden room has built-in blinds and French doors accessing the rear garden and a further door to the kitchen.


Kitchen
This fantastic kitchen is contemporary in design and features white high gloss wall, base and drawer units incorporating soft closing and quartz effect work surfaces. There is tiling to the splashbacks, lighting to the kickboards and space for a table and chairs.

The kitchen also has plenty of natural light from the glazed door at the rear and the dual-aspect windows with built-in blinds. Integrated appliances include a double Neff oven, a four-ring gas hob, an extractor and a wine cooler.


Utility room
Adjacent to the kitchen, there is an extremely useful utility room, with space for domestic appliances and a glass lantern roof. The utility room also provides access to the garage/store and the ground-floor shower room.


Shower room
The ground-floor shower room has a white suite comprising a low-level WC, an enclosed wash basin set upon a vanity unit, a shower cubicle and tiling to the splashback.


Dining room
Situated to the rear of the property, is a stunning extension featuring a beamed and vaulted ceiling. This versatile space is currently used as a formal dining room and has plenty of space for a large dining table and chairs.

The room also houses the Worcester boiler and has two Velux windows, a large window incorporating shutters to the side elevation and French doors incorporating shutters to the rear elevation.


First floor
From the hallway, a staircase rises to the landing, which features a beautiful stained-glass window to the side elevation. The landing also grants access to the bedrooms and house shower room.


Bedroom one
Situated to the rear, bedroom one is a double room featuring wooden flooring, a range of built-in wardrobes and windows with built-in shutters.


Bedrooms two and three
Bedroom two is another double room with built-in wardrobes and the third bedroom is a single room with access to the loft. Both rooms have wooden flooring and windows with built-in shutters.


Shower room
The house shower room has a white suite comprising a low-level WC, a pedestal washbasin and a shower cubicle with a waterfall shower. There is also tiling to the splashbacks, a chrome towel radiator and an obscure-glazed window incorporating shutters to the rear.


Garden
The mature garden is a particular feature of this property and has been split into three zones. There is a paved area, a lawned area and a gate leading through to a further garden area at the rear. These zones offer great spaces for alfresco dining and entertaining, vegetable growing or use as a children’s play area.

There is a greenhouse and a garden shed situated at the rear. The garden is fully enclosed by panel fencing and has an abundance of trees and mature foliage. There is also courtesy lighting and an outside tap.


Agents note
The stained-glass windows between the reception room and the conservatory have been removed and woodwork painted white.

The town centre of Halesowen has a good selection of amenities, including shops, supermarkets and pubs.

Halesowen is also an extremely convenient location ideal for the commuter. There is easy access to the motorway network via Junction 3 of the M5 motorway and train stations can be found just a few miles away at Cradley Heath, Old Hill and Rowley Regis. There is also a regular bus service running from the town centre into the centre of Birmingham, which is around 7 miles away.

Services
This property has mains electricity, mains gas, mains water, mains drainage, a security alarm system and broadband.

Council tax band D

Reservation Fee - refundable on exchange

A reservation fee, refundable on exchange, is payable prior to the issue of the Memorandum of Sale and after which the property may be marked as Sold Subject to Contract. The fee will be reimbursed upon the successful Exchange of Contracts.

The fee will be retained by Andrew Grant in the event that you the buyer withdraws from the purchase or does not Exchange within 6 months of the fee being received other than for one or more of the following reasons:

1. Any significant material issues highlighted in a survey that were not evident or drawn to the attention of you the buyer prior to the Memorandum of Sale being issued.
2. Serious and material defect in the seller’s legal title.
3. Local search revealing a matter that has a material adverse effect on the market value of the property that was previously undeclared and not in the public domain.
4. The vendor withdrawing the property from sale.

The reservation fee levels are as follows:
an agreed offer under £500,000 will be £750 inclusive of vat
an agreed offer between £500,000 and £1,000,000 will be £2,000 inclusive of vat
all agreed offers over £1,000,000 will be £3,000 inclusive of vat

The reservation fee is payable upon acceptance by the vendor of an offer from a buyer and a positive completion of an assessment of the buyer’s financial status and ability to proceed.
Should a buyer’s financial position regarding the funding of the property prove to be fundamentally different from that declared by the buyer when the Memorandum of Sale was completed, then the Vendor has the right to withdraw from the sale and the reservation fee retained. For example, where the buyer declares themselves as a cash buyer but are in fact relying on an unsecured sale of their property.

Once the reservation fee has been paid, any renegotiation of the price stated in the memorandum of sale for any reason other than those covered in points 1 to 3 above will lead to the reservation fee being retained. A further fee will be levied on any subsequent reduced offer that is accepted by the vendor. This further fee will be subject to the same conditions that prevail for all reservation fees outlined above.