East End Road, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL53

An impressive 1930’s detached house of excellent quality with a wonderful blend of traditional features and contemporary styled living space, light and bright accommodation and an exceptional south facing plot with further development potential



Cumberland Court is a fine family home that has only changed hands twice since its construction in 1932. The present owners have been in residence for 26 years and during that time have both maintained the house to a high standard and re-modelled and extended it to create excellent living and bedroom space in a contemporary style. The house has an excellent balance of living rooms, bedrooms and garden, with the level lawns to the rear providing a private setting with a semi-rural feel, enhanced by the backdrop of the Leckhampton Hill escarpment.

The house would work extremely well for a family who need their own private space as on the ground floor, there is a large, traditional sitting room with fireplace and French doors to the garden, a good sized dining room and study, all arranged off a generous reception hall. Throughout this part of the house, great care has been taken to retain the original 1930’s features to include parquet and timber flooring, picture rails and fireplaces and the original architect created a wide curved staircase that is a wonderful feature of the house.

To create further living space and adding to the architectural style of the property is a modern extension that provides excellent family living space and which takes in the vista of the gardens and views. This 28’ reception room has a woodburning stove for added winter warmth and a focal point, full height glazed windows and French doors opening out to the terrace. It is an extremely light and bright space and leads in turn to a wonderfully designed circular garden room, again with glazed panels and French doors and these two rooms very much bring the outside in due to their aspect and design.

If a separate suite or guest space was needed, adjacent to the garden room is a very smart, fully tiled shower room.

The living space flows very well and a smartly appointed kitchen is open to the family room, fitted with a range of cabinets and walk in store, Belfast sink, fitted dishwasher and attractive views over the garden. The functionality of the house works well for family living and entertaining with a large utility room with further storage and courtesy door to the side.

On the first floor off a very generous landing are five bedrooms, the main bedroom being particularly impressive with a large en-suite, a bank of fitted wardrobes and lovely balcony overlooking the garden and expansive backdrop of the escarpment. Bedrooms two and three are very generous rooms and these rooms are served by a large family bathroom with freestanding bath and a useful separate W.C. Throughout the house there is excellent storage including a large loft space and further external storage by way of the integral garage.

Cumberland Court is approached off East End Road via a sweeping block paved driveway leading up to the landscaped frontage with feature pond and off road parking for around four cars. There is also a lower driveway providing off road parking for a further two to three vehicles leading to the integral garage.

The rear garden of the house is a particular feature of the property and is arranged as an expanse of lawn edged by mature borders and well stocked displays, with a large patio area and
wide decked terrace, established trees and shrubbery.

In November 2022, Cheltenham Borough Council granted Permission In Principle for a single dwelling to be constructed to the rear of the garden, this permission is live for three years from the date of the permission, reference number 22/01882/PIP

Services & Features
All mains services are connected, double glazed windows throughout.
Gas fired combination boiler and pressurised water tank.
Underfloor heating in the main bathroom.

Charlton Kings is one of Cheltenham’s most popular districts and is highly regarded for its local schools to include Balcarras School, Charlton Kings Primary, Holy Apostles C of E school and St Edwards. Local amenities are excellent both in the immediate vicinity and at Six Ways with supermarkets, cafes, delicatessen, wine bar, pubs and restaurants, chemist, doctors and dentist along with a range of independent shops. The area is surrounded by the Cotswold escarpment so excellent access to lovely walks and also first class communication links to major centres via the A40 and A435.