Wilbury Road, Letchworth Garden City

Outstanding individual detached family home, superbly extended, updated and improved • Beautifully presented, inside and out • Stunning orangery-style garden room • Super through kitchen/dining room • Quarter acre garden plot • Ample off-street parking • Workshop/store • Highly regarded residential location on the north side of town

The Property - This attractive double-fronted detached house has been exceptionally well extended, updated and improved to provide a truly outstanding family home. To the front are an entrance hall and cloakroom/WC. To the left of the central hall is the sitting room with built-in cupboards flanking the original fireplace, to the right is an impressive kitchen/dining room. To the rear is a family room open-plan to the delightful orangery-style garden room. A laundry completes the ground floor.

There are four double bedrooms on the first floor, the master having its own en suite shower room. The remaining bedrooms are served by a well-appointed family bathroom.

The original house is of solid brick, roughcast rendered externally, under a pitched tiled roof; the extensions are of insulated cavity construction and the garden room has a flat roof incorporating a large lantern. The windows are double-glazed, mainly in uPVC frames, with some in white coated aluminium frames with hardwood surrounds and the house benefits from gas fired central heating.

The Outside - The house stands a minimum of 30' (9.39m) back from the road, set in a plot of very nearly a quarter of an acre, measuring approximately 199' by 49' (60.38m x 14.85m) overall. The front garden has hedges to front and one side, a fence to the other, and is laid to lawn with herbaceous borders and ornamental shrubs and trees. The block paved and shingle forecourt provides ample off-street parking. To the left of the house is a storage area, fenced and gated to front and rear.

To the right of the house double gates open to a sideway leading to the detached timber workshop/store to the rear and on to the splendid rear garden, which is some 119' (36m) in length. A paved patio terrace adjoins the rear of the house with steps descending between raised beds to the lawn, herbaceous beds and borders, circular paved patio, fruit trees and ornamental shrubs and trees. Timber garden shed.

The Location - Wilbury Road is an established residential road running east to west on the northern side of the town. No 98 is just three-quarters of a mile from the town centre and mainline railway station. Letchworth Garden City is on the Cambridge to London mainline with services running regularly throughout the day. The fastest service to London King's Cross takes just 29 minutes with Cambridge 27 minutes away in the other direction. Junction 9 on the A1(M) is just 2.7 miles away by car.

Designed in the early 20th Century to combine the benefits of town and country, Letchworth Garden City was the world’s first example of this concept and succeeds to this day in achieving its aim. The town provides excellent schools, shops, leisure facilities and green open spaces, the most impressive of which, the 63-acre Norton Common, is less than 400 yards away.

Council Tax - Currently Band F, but subject to an improvement indicator. The banding may be revised following a sale.

Services - MAINS water, sewerage, gas and electricity are connected to the property.
BROADBAND: A choice of providers with claimed download speeds of up to 10,000 Mbps.
MOBILE SIGNAL: Most providers claim up to 4G coverage, O2 claims to provide 5G.

The Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation - To maintain the integrity of the Garden City concept and design, properties are subject to the additional planning requirements of the Heritage Foundation.

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