College Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8

6 College Road is a once in a generation opportunity; a much loved family home for sale for the first time some 66 years. Due to its length of ownership it is uniquely intact; with many of its beautiful period features still fully retained and working.

It affords any new owner an exciting and rare opportunity to renovate and refurbish as much or as little as they like and put their own stamp on this effortlessly charming and beautifully proportioned family home.

Accessed from College Road via a pillared entrance there is off-street parking for one car, and side access down to the annex and private garden beyond.

A dressed stone arch with a delightful carved head above and original wooden door gives access into a generous entrance lobby, with more than enough space to create a formal coat and boot room.

A part-glazed door leads into the welcoming entrance hall, with its stripped wooden parquet floor (running throughout much of the hall floor) and beautiful curved balustrade staircase leading to the galleried landing above; illuminated by an oversize arched sash window, flooding the hall and landing with natural light.

From here, there is access to a useful cloakroom with a w.c and wash basin, as well as butler's pantry and a staircase leading down to the lower ground floor.

The hall floor reception rooms are exquisite; with a delightful 25' dining room with a triple sash bay window, complete with working shutters. Many of the property's period features remain including sash windows, shutters, ceiling plasterwork and original fireplaces.

Adjacent to the dining room is the charming sitting room overlooking the rear garden with three shuttered sash windows providing natural light and a stunning carved marble fireplace with an open hearth below. It is a wonderfully relaxed and very private room, catching much of the midday and afternoon sun.

Adjacent to this lies the kitchen with a door leading out into the rear garden. At present it comprises a range of floor and wall-mounted storage with a solid fuel AGA and free-standing cooker. We suspect that, subject to the necessary consents, this could be opened up to the sitting room to create a truly fabulous full width family space, overlooking and leading out into the garden.

Up the sweeping staircase lie two floors of accommodation providing some seven bedrooms and three bath / shower rooms. This space creates an opportunity for any new owner to configure the floor-plan to best suit their own family needs.

There is an obvious “master suite” on the first floor to the front of the house, and more than enough bedrooms to adapt into dressing rooms / studies or additional bathrooms if required.

On the top floor is a particularly impressive “bedroom”, currently dressed as a home office (long before one became de rigueur) with oblique views out towards Clifton College.

It is difficult to imagine a more versatile and spacious footprint than these two floors present, and the triple aspect of an east, south and westerly orientation affords the house an unusual amount of natural light to all the floors.

At present, the lower ground floor is “split” with accessible reception and generous utility space to the rear accessed from the main house; and a self-contained studio apartment independently accessed to the front.

Over the years the family have let the studio to young actors and actresses from The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School; but it could equally be “opened up” to create either a larger self-contained apartment, or additional family space accessed from the main house if required.

To the rear is a family games room (complete with the original kitchen range) along with a large utility room with a Belfast sink and flagstone floor. There is plenty of additional storage, as well as access out into the garden. Much like the upper floors, this floor creates a huge amount of opportunity and future potential for any new owner to explore.