Green Lane, St. Albans, Hertfordshire

An attractive part-black and white-timbered property offering light-filled flexible accommodation arranged predominantly over two floors. Configured to provide an ideal family and entertaining space, the accommodation flows from a welcoming parquet-floored entrance hall with useful cloakroom and briefly comprises a generous sitting room with front aspect bay window and woodburning stove, and a large kitchen/breakfast room with a range of contemporary high-gloss wall and base units including a large central island with breakfast bar. The room has a door to the side aspect and bi-fold doors to the rear terrace.

On the first floor the property provides a generous principal bedroom with front aspect bay window and contemporary en suite shower room, two further well-proportioned bedrooms, one currently used as an office and the other with built-in storage, and a modern family bathroom. The property also benefits from a vaulted two-roomed loft, suitable for a variety of uses including conversion to additional accommodation if required (STP).

General
Local Authority: St Albans City and District Council
Services: Electricity, gas, mains water and drainage
Council Tax: Band F
Tenure: Freehold
Guide Price: £950,000

Set behind mature hedging and having plenty of kerb appeal, the property is approached over a low-maintenance block-paved forecourt offering private parking and flanked by an area of level lawn. The enclosed landscaped garden to the rear is laid to level lawn bordered by a raised flowerbed and features a detached outbuilding with garden office/gym and useful store together with a spacious wraparound paved terrace incorporating a sheltered paved dining area, ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining.

The historical Roman city of St Albans offers a comprehensive range of independent and high street shopping facilities, together with an abundance of restaurants, cafés and bars, sports centres, nearby golf clubs and Verulamium Park, which offers approximately 100 acres of beautiful parkland and a lake and provides further leisure facilities. Communications links are excellent: St. Albans mainline station, with its fast through services via London St. Pancras International to the City (19 mins), Gatwick and beyond, is close at hand, and the M1, M25 and A1(M) give easy access to the motorway network and to the airports at Heathrow, Luton and Stansted.
The area offers a good selection of state primary and secondary schooling including St. Albans Girls’ School and Loreto College (both rated Outstanding by Ofsted) together with a wide range of independent schools including St. Albans High School for Girls, St. Albans, St. Columba’s College and Aldwickbury.