Beach Avenue, Thornton-cleveleys, FY5 1ED

Welcome to 13 Beach Avenue, a three-bedroom Victorian end terrace home in the heart of Cleveleys. One of the original properties to be built in the street, number 13 retains the period charm of 19th century architecture, in combination with more modern design features. With its detached double garage, sun room, additional first floor office space and its fantastic central location, it’s the perfect starter home or place for families to grow. There’s also excellent potential for further renovation, or even to invest in the home as a commercial holiday let project.

Ground floor:

From the front door, the entrance hallway leads towards the staircase with decorative spindles, with both the living room and dining room to the left.

The living room features a high bay window overlooking the front of the home, a central fireplace with ornamental surround, and great potential for alcove storage. Directly next door is the dining room, so you could knock through the wall and create a huge open plan living arrangement, if desired.

The dining room is a large space, perfect for big family gatherings or for use as a second reception room. It features a double window overlooking the back garden, with a beautiful exposed brick fireplace encasing a wood burning stove.

The kitchen is accessed from the dining room. There’s plenty of overhead and built-in storage for food and cooking appliances, plumbing for an undercounter dishwasher, and a built-in oven with ceramic four-ring hob. Access to the back garden is provided via doors from both the kitchen and adjoining sun room.

The kitchen has been extended to incorporate a sun room, with double patio doors leading out into the rear garden. The sun room also provides an excellent space for a makeshift utility area, with electrics for a fridge/freezer and condenser tumble dryer, if required. Just off the sun room is the ground floor WC, with additional plumbing for a washing machine.

First floor:

Upstairs, a spacious and long landing area leads onto the property’s three bedrooms, office room, and Victorian-inspired bathroom.

The bathroom comprises a WC, wash basin with traditional double taps, and a luxurious freestanding roll-top, claw foot bathtub with overhead shower. The current owners took inspiration from the property’s traditional Victorian architecture, installing new 19th-century inspired fittings, decorative flooring and bringing a feature wall back to its original stunning brickwork.

Next to the large bathroom is the office, which could easily be configured to suit whichever space your family requires - from a remote working space to a playroom, or even a walk-in wardrobe.

The master bedroom also overlooks the back garden, and comfortably fits up to a king-size bed with additional space for clothes storage.  The two remaining bedrooms are found across the landing, to the front aspect of the home.

Outdoors:

The rear garden is a substantial space, with a large patio area perfect for dining outdoors. In the middle lies a mature Cordyline tree and shrub area, providing structural interest along with somewhere for starlings, sparrows and wood pigeons to congregate in the warmer months.

In addition to on-street parking to the front, the rear garden also provides access to the property’s detached double garage for off-road parking. The garage, which has previously been used as a large home gym, has excellent potential for extra storage or conversion, subject to planning permission.  

What the sellers say:

“13 Beach Avenue was the first property we ever bought: an upsize in anticipation of our youngest daughter’s birth. Raising our three children in this home brought us more happy memories than we could possibly convey. From adorning the dining room with a beautiful 10ft tree every Christmas (go big - the high ceilings accommodate it!), to watching vast swathes of butterflies frequent the garden’s buddleia shrub from the kitchen window each summer, this home embodies everything a family - of any shape or size - could possibly want.

During the pandemic, the office space upstairs became a safe haven to continue to work from. Exams were passed and small businesses were created in this one little room. Our sons, now teenagers in need of their own space, shared a bedroom harmoniously during their younger years. We built our baby girl’s cot in the third bedroom, waiting for her to arrive. We opened that bedroom door more times than we can count before she was born, excitedly staring at that cot - until finally, she was here to sleep in it.  

The street itself is within one of the most practical and convenient areas of Cleveleys. We walked our daughter to nursery every day, just a five-minute stroll down Rossall Road. There are multiple schools within walking distance, and Manor Beach is only two roads away. Walk about twenty steps from the front door and you’ll find the library, where we’ve spent many lazy Saturday mornings reading with our little ones.

There’s no place like it in summer - with the Vue cinema and the gorgeous beach only a few minutes up Beach Road. It was genuinely the best place to live when it comes to keeping the children occupied: one day we’d go to one of Victoria Rd West’s cafes or grab an ice cream, the next we’d take our dog to the beach or walk to Jubilee Park and play football. You can reach anywhere on the Fylde coast from here, with tram stops behind you on Rossall Road and the bus station only a couple of minutes away. The location is genuinely perfect, whether you have children to entertain, need a good gym on your doorstep, or have to commute to work. We can’t fault it in any way.  

When we look back on our time here, in our first family home, we realise that the simple things were really what made this home special to us. We’ve moved out of the area now, and whilst the sale of Beach Avenue is a deeply reluctant one, we’re happy in the knowledge that its new owners will undoubtedly create their own magical memories within its walls.”

About the area

Transport

Beach Avenue is directly behind West Drive tram stop, at the West Drive/Rossall Road junction. Trams run regularly throughout the year, up to Fleetwood in one direction and Starr Gate at South Shore, Blackpool in the other. The tram link connects the property to the bright lights of Blackpool in just 30 minutes, taking in the world-famous illuminations in peak season.

Multiple bus services run by Blackpool Transport and Catch 22 run from Cleveleys centre, with direct journeys travelling all over the Fylde coast, including Poulton, Lytham and Fleetwood - even all the way down to Preston city centre.

Commuters can be on the M55 in under 20 minutes by car, and Blackpool Victoria Hospital is also around a 20 minute drive away.

Things to do and amenities:

Cleveleys has a thriving high street, with plenty of local small businesses to support. For the weekly food shop, you’re within a five-minute drive to an Aldi, a Lidl, a Herons food store, an Iceland, an M&S Food and a Morrisons supermarket. You’re spoiled for choice!

If you don’t feel like cooking, you can order online from dozens of takeaways and fast-food outlets, and there are multiple excellent choices when it comes to dining out, too.

Within a 15-minute walk you’ll reach Jubilee beach, which was chosen in 2020 as the site for a Star Wars TV series. We love our beaches here on the Fylde coast, and Cleveleys is no exception. With its well-maintained promenade stretching up all the way to Fleetwood or South Shore uninterrupted, you could walk for miles and stop for multiple ice creams on the way.

Schools

The property falls in the catchment area for lots of nurseries and primary schools, so you’ll never have to travel too far during the school runs. Northfold Community Primary School, St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School and Manor Beach Primary School are the three closest schools to the property. Although Cleveleys doesn’t have a secondary school, older children also have lots of options nearby. Millfield High School in Thornton, Fleetwood High School, and Cardinal Allen Catholic High School in Fleetwood, Hodgson Academy and Baines School in Poulton, and Montgomery Academy in Bispham are all within a 15-minute drive.

Disclaimer:

These details, whilst believed to be accurate are set out as a general outline only for guidance and do not constitute any part of an offer or contract. Intending purchasers should not rely on them as statements of representation of fact, but must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise as to their accuracy. No person in this firms employment has the authority to make or give any representation or warranty in respect of the property, or tested the services or any of the equipment or appliances in this property. With this in mind, we would advise all intending purchasers to carry out their own independent survey or reports prior to purchase. All measurements and distances are approximate only and should not be relied upon for the purchase of furnishings or floor coverings. Your home is at risk if you do not keep up repayments on a mortgage or other loan secured on it. For both transparency and adherence to the marketing guidelines outlined in The Estate Agents Act (1979) we would like to make you aware that this property is being sold by a representative of eXp UK.