Westgate, Bridgnorth

A substantial Edwardian semi detached house with spacious accommodation arranged over three floors and featuring high ceilings, and period features.

This is a superb opportunity to acquire a substantial property of around 205 sq metres, suitable for a variety of uses subject to planning permission. It is understood that the property has previously been operated as an HMO, house of multiple occupancy. Prospective purchasers need to make their own enquiries in this respect. Offered for sale with no onward chain the property lends itself, subject to planning permission, to being rented as an HMO, refurbished as a family home, converted into apartments or operated as a commercial premises.

Westgate, on Salop Street, is a principal route into the town centre and the property has a prominent corner position on the corner of Westgate and Victoria Road with an open aspect to the front along the Wenlock Road to the front.

The property is conveniently situated for access to the town centre, where a wide choice of amenities are to be found including local and High Street shops and supermarkets, banks, traditional hostelries, a cinema, a characterful theatre, doctors' surgery and well regarded schools for children of all ages.

The aspirational market town of Bridgnorth has a wide variety of amenities including well regarded schools for children of all ages, a doctors' surgery, a selection of supermarkets, local and high street shops, pharmacies, opticians, traditional public houses, restaurants, a characterful theatre and petrol stations at vantage points. The town, subject to a siege during the English Civil War, is rich in history and features a castle ruin leaning at an angle greater than the Tower of Pisa, the Cliff Railway, between Low Town and High Town, the Cliff Railway that runs between Low Town and High Town is the steepest inland railway in the country.

NB.
The room titles referred to below relate to the floor plan for guidance only and as to how the property may have been traditionally used or has previously been utilised as an eight bedroom HMO, of course how this versatile space is used in future is entirely up to the purchaser.

Entrance porch.
With pitched tiled roof, part glazed entrance door with windows to side, quarry tiled floor and part obscure glazed door to entrance hall Entrance hall
Doors radiate off to the principal ground floor rooms a cloakroom and the cellar, ceiling coving, central heating radiator, stairs to 1st floorCloakroom
Fitted with a heater of towel rail and a suite comprising low flush WC with concealed cistern and vanity wash and basin with mixer tap cupboards under obscure sash window to sideFront right reception room
With triple, deep, sash windows to front, and window to side, fireplace with wooden mantle, marble effect hearth and surround, fitted gas coal effect fire, central heating radiator, fitted fire door. Front left reception room.
Shallow Bay window to front with four deep sash windows, ornate Adams style fireplace with cast-iron insert, tiled hearth and surround, ceiling coving, and picture rail, central heating radiator, fitted fire doorRear left room.
Decorative archs either side of the chimney breast, arch doorway to kitchen, central heating radiator, glass bricks section of wall to inner hall. Fitted fire door.Kitchen
With three pitched skylights and fitted with a range of white kitchen floor and wall mounted furniture with contrasting work surfaces, stainless steel sink and mixer tap, plumbing for automatic washing machine and dishwasher fire door to inner hall, part glazed door to utility room

Utility room.
With part glazed door to rear garden, wall mounted Ideal Logic central heating boiler and lifestyle central heating programmer, central heating radiator, fitted fire alarmInner hall
Providing access to two bedroomsFar rear bedroom
With wide picture window to rear garden, central heating radiator, built in wardrobeRear bedroom
With window to rear garden, central heating radiator, built-in wardrobe with double louvred doors. fire door to entrance hall and door to ensuite shower roomEnsuite Shower room.
Fitted with a white suite comprising vanity wash and basin with cupboards under, corner shower cubicle with sliding door ceramic wall tilingFirst floor landing
With stairs to 2nd floor, doors radiate off to 3 bedrooms and the house shower room, central heating radiator, ceiling covingBedroom front right
Three deep, sash windows with open aspect to Wenlock Road, period fireplace, central heating radiator, ceiling coving, door, to ensuite shower roomEnsuite shower room
Fitted with a white suite comprising low flush WC wall mounted handbasin and shower cubicle, ceramic wall tiling, central heating radiator, obscure glazed sash windowFront left bedroom
With three, deep sash windows to Wenlock Road, central heating radiator, ceiling coving, door to ensuite shower roomEn-suite shower room
Fitted with a white suite comprising low flush WC, wall mounted wash hand basin and shower cubicle with Triton shower unit, central heating radiator, tiled floorHouse shower room
Fitted with a white suite comprising large shower tray with glazed screen and door, low flush WC, pedestal wash hand basin. ceramic wall tiling, obscure glazed window to side, heated towel railRear bedroom
With sash window to rear garden. Period Fireplace, built in wardrobe with double opening doors, door to airing cupboard storage with Heatrae Sadia hot water tank, central heating radiator, fitted fire doorStairs to 2nd floor
A turning staircase with windows to rear, half landingLanding
Central heating radiator, access hatch to eaves /loft storage, doors radiate off to a bedroom and a shower roomSecond floor bedroom
With sloping eaves, two central heating radiators, ornate period fireplace, dormer window to rear garden, fire doorShower room
Fitted with a white suite comprising Corner shower cubicle, pedestal wash hand basin with mixer tap, low flush WC, heated towel rail, ceramic tiled wallsOutside
The rear garden is accessed via double opening gates to a gravel driveway leading to a single garage with up and over door, fence boundaries and herbaceous borders. The front driveway is laid in a herringbone brick pattern and set behind an ornamental boundary wall with cast iron pedestrian gate.

Tenure
We understand that the property is Freehold

Local Authority
Shropshire, Local authority reference number 000, Council Tax Band F

Energy Performance
The property has an Energy Performance Certificate, number 0310-2461-6580-2895=1371, valid until 20th August 2035 with an energy rating of E.

Services
The property has the benefit of all mains services

Car parking
The property has a spacious driveway to the front and side, and a garage accessed via double gates, it is believed that the bungalow, to the right, has rights of access to use the driveway for access, interested parties should check with their legal advisors.

Viewings
For viewing please contact the vendors sole agents, Nick Tart, Bridgnorth, or to make an appointment. The property can also be viewed via a virtual tour online.

This property is for sale by the Modern Method of Auction, meaning the buyer and seller are to Complete within 56 days (the "Reservation Period"). Interested parties personal data will be shared with the Auctioneer (iamsold).If considering buying with a mortgage, inspect and consider the property carefully with your lender before bidding.A Buyer Information Pack is provided. The winning bidder will pay £349.00 including VAT for this pack which you must view before bidding.The buyer signs a Reservation Agreement and makes payment of a non-refundable Reservation Fee of 4.80% of the purchase price including VAT, subject to a minimum of £6,000.00 including VAT. This is paid to reserve the property to the buyer during the Reservation Period and is paid in addition to the purchase price. This is considered within calculations for Stamp Duty Land Tax.Services may be recommended by the Agent or Auctioneer in which they will receive payment from the service provider if the service is taken. Payment varies but will be no more than £450.00. These services are optional.

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