St Athelm Lodge, Wells
- PROPERTY TYPE
Retirement Property
- BEDROOMS
1
- BATHROOMS
1
- SIZE
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Key features
- First Floor Apartment
- Garden Outlook
- Modern fitted kitchen with integrated appliances
- Lodge Manager available 5 days a week
- Owners’ Lounge & coffee bar with regular social events
- 24 hour Careline system for safety and security
- Owners’ private car park
- Close to the town centre & excellent transport links
- Buggy store with charging points
- A Guest Suite is available for your friends and family to stay in.
Description
The Lounge offers ample space for living and dining room furniture and has a feature electric fireplace with attractive surround. A door that opens into the Kitchen.
The Kitchen offers a range of eye and base level units with working surfaces over and tiled splashbacks. There is a built in waist height oven, 4 ring electric hob with extractor hood over, a fridge, a frost-free freezer and washer/dryer. A window allows for light and ventilation.
The Bedroom is a generous double room with a useful built in mirrored wardrobe and plenty of space for additional bedroom furniture if required.
The Shower Room offers a large shower cubicle with handrail, heated towel rail, a WC and wash hand basin with vanity unit beneath.
Perfectly complementing this wonderful apartment is a useful storage cupboard located in the hallway.
St Athelm Lodge is a stylish development of 31, one and two-bedroom retirement apartments located on West Street, at the heart of this historic Cathedral city. Wells lies sheltered beneath the southern slopes of the Mendip Hills and qualifies as England’s smallest and Somerset’s only city, named after the springs (or wells) which rise within the 14 acres of Bishops Palace grounds.
Wells Cathedral, Bishop’s Palace and Vicar’s Close, the oldest intact medieval street in Europe, are all located in the City centre. St Athelm Lodge is well located for a range of shops and amenities including several supermarkets, a bank, bakery, pharmacy, Doctor’s surgery, Dentist and hairdresser. The Wells Little Theatre is operated by a voluntary society and puts on a variety of operatic and other productions whilst The Wells Film Centre is a charming independent cinema with three screens.
Within 25 miles you can visit many attractions which include the caves at Wookey Hole, Cheddar Gorge and Caves, Glastonbury Abbey and the Fleet Air Arm Museum.
Wells is serviced by regular local buses to Weston-super-Mare, Shepton Mallet, Shepperton, Bristol and Bath.
The Lodge manager is on hand throughout the day to support the Owners and keep the development in perfect shape as well as arranging many regular events in the Owners’ Lounge from coffee mornings to games afternoons.
A Guest Suite is available for your friends and family to stay in. In addition, you are entitled to use of the Guest Suites at all Churchill Retirement Living developments across the country. Prices are available from the Lodge Manager.
St Athelm Lodge has been designed with safety and security at the forefront, the apartment has an emergency Careline system installed, monitored by the onsite Lodge Manager during the day and 24 hours, 365 days a year by the Careline team. A Careline integrated intruder alarm, secure video entry system and sophisticated fire and smoke detection systems throughout both the apartment and communal areas provide unrivalled peace of mind.
St Athelm Lodge is managed by the award winning Churchill Estates Management, working closely with Churchill Retirement Living and Churchill Sales & Lettings to maintain the highest standards of maintenance and service for every lodge and owner.
St Athelm Lodge requires at least one apartment Owner to be over the age of 60 with any second Owner over the age of 55.
Service Charge (Year ending 31st May 2024) £4,893.85 per annum.
Ground rent £575.00 per annum. To be reviewed June 2025.
Council Tax Band D
999 year Lease commencing June 2018
Please check regarding Pets with Churchill Estates Management. Any consents given in relation to pets are subject to the terms of the lease and any further rules and regulations made by Churchill Estates Management
Service charges include: Careline system, buildings insurance, water and sewerage rates, Air Source Heating, communal cleaning, utilities and maintenance, garden maintenance, lift maintenance, lodge manager and a contribution to the contingency fund.
A 1% contribution of the final selling price to the contingency fund is payable by the Seller upon completion of the sale of the property.
Brochures
St Athelm Lodge, WellsBrochure- COUNCIL TAXA payment made to your local authority in order to pay for local services like schools, libraries, and refuse collection. The amount you pay depends on the value of the property.Read more about council Tax in our glossary page.
- Band: D
- PARKINGDetails of how and where vehicles can be parked, and any associated costs.Read more about parking in our glossary page.
- Yes
- GARDENA property has access to an outdoor space, which could be private or shared.
- Yes
- ACCESSIBILITYHow a property has been adapted to meet the needs of vulnerable or disabled individuals.Read more about accessibility in our glossary page.
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St Athelm Lodge, Wells
NEAREST STATIONS
Distances are straight line measurements from the centre of the postcode- Castle Cary Station9.3 miles
About the agent
Churchill Sales & Lettings, Ringwood
Churchill House, Parkside, Ringwood, BH24 3SG
Churchill Sales & Lettings are Retirement Property Specialists dealing solely with selling Apartments in the Retirement sector.
Offering an exclusive range of services unrivalled by any High Street Agents, make Churchill Sales & Lettings your first choice when selling your retirement property. Take a look at our 'Selling' page to see how Churchill Sales & Lettings will work with you to achieve a sale as quickly as possible. We understand that
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