Painswick Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50

This spectacular duplex apartment forms around half of this landmark building, occupying the raised and lower ground floor levels.

The apartment is accessed via an automated gated entrance into a gravelled parking area where stone steps rise to the impressive private entrance. Once inside the scale and proportions of this stunning home are immediately eveiedent. The apartment is characterised by the clever blend of contemporary styling and spectacular period features. Full length sash windows, intricate plaster mouldings and deep skirting boards are in plentiful supply through the raised ground floor.

The accommodation on the ground floor is mostly reception space with a beautifully appointed kitchen/dining room, large dual aspect drawing room, study with built in shelving and boot room. One of the four bedrooms is also at this level and benefits from an en-suite shower room.

On the lower ground floor there are two further bedroom suites including the principal, which has a dressing area with fitted wardrobes. A large family shower room serves the third bedroom and a further sitting room/media room has double doors opening to the garden. A utility and plant room provide a neat space for laundry, storage and the workings of the apartment.

The property is heated with gas fired boiler serving underfloor heating throughout the lower ground floor and traditional radiators upstairs. There are also log burning stoves fitted to the dining room, drawing room, media room and study. Cat 6 cabling links to a hub in the plant room providing wired internet connections in most rooms.

Outside and reached from both the lower ground floor and the parking area, a private garden wraps around to three sides of the apartment. There is a large patio terrace area which leads to areas of lawn, interspersed by pea gravel paths and edged with corten steel.

Located in one of Cheltenham's most popular roads close to the Suffolk's and the Park. This area is renowned for its fine dwellings, individual shops, restaurants and cafes. Montpellier and the Bath Road are both a short distance away which offer a mix of boutique stores, restaurants and cafes.

Cheltenham itself is famous for its fine architecture, public gardens and world renowned schooling to include Cheltenham Ladies' College, Dean Close and Cheltenham College.