Berkeley, Letchworth Garden City

Attractive modern detached family home • Superb kitchen/dining room extension • Secluded rear garden • Garage and off-street parking • Pleasantly located in a peaceful residential close in an established residential area on the south side of the town

The Property - The heart of this attractive modern detached family home is its splendid kitchen/dining room extension to the rear, complemented by separate sitting room with a fireplace and a family room, laundry and impressive wet room with shower, which doubles as a cloakroom/WC. The ground floor is complete by the attached garage.

The first floor provides four bedrooms, three doubles and a single/study. The master bedroom has its own en suite shower room and the other bedrooms are served by the well-appointed family bathroom.

The house benefits from uPVC double-glazed widows, a quintuple double-glazed folding door from the dining area to the rear garden, a large lantern above the dining area and gas fired central heating.

The Outside - The house stands in a plot measuring approximately 74' by 64' (22.6m x 19.5m) overall. The low maintenance front garden is laid to slate chippings with ornamental shrubs and tree. The herring-bone brick paved drive provides off-street parking and leads to the attached garage.

A gate to the side leads to a fenced storage area laid to slate chippings from which a gate opens to the pleasingly private rear garden, which is some 25' (7.6m) in depth and screened to the rear by a tall conifer hedge. It is laid to lawn with paved and brick paved patios, gazebo, wisteria and ornamental and apple trees.

The Location - Berkeley is a pleasant residential close in an established residential area on the south side of the town. No 29 is three-quarters of a mile from the town centre and only a mile from the mainline railway station. Letchworth Garden City is on the Cambridge to London mainline with the fastest service to London King's Cross taking just 29 minutes and Cambridge 27 minutes away in the other direction. Junction 9 on the A1(M) is a mile and a third 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.

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.

Construction - Insulated cavity walls under a pitched tiled roof.

Broadband Speed - A choice of providers with claimed download speeds of up to 1,000 Mbps.

Mobile Signal - Most providers claim up to 5G coverage.

Conservation Area - The property is not located within a Conservation Area.

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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