Sandridge Road, St. Albans, Hertfordshire

157 Sandridge Road is an impressive semi-detached family home providing over 1,300 sq ft of attractive accommodation across two floors. The property has been extended to create flexible living space, including a bright open-plan area to the rear for relaxing and entertaining. The gardens extend beyond 100 ft and feature a useful garden studio. The ground floor entrance hall provides a splendid welcome with its wooden flooring and clean, neutral styling. A door opens form the hallway to the sitting room at the front of the ground floor, which features wooden parquet flooring, a woodburning stove, built-in storage and shelving and a bay window with plantation shutters. The room provides a peaceful and relaxing environment in which to spend time as a family. At the rear, the large open-plan kitchen and dining room, with underloor heating, offers more social, everyday living space, as well as options for entertaining. There is exposed brickwork, skylights overhead and sliding doors opening to the gardens at the rear, with the room providing ample space for both a seating area and a family dining table. The kitchen itself has sleek modern fitted units, a central island with a breakfast bar, plus integrated appliances by Siemens, which include a double oven and an induction hob with a recessed extractor fan.

Upstairs there are four well-presented double
bedrooms, including the principal bedroom at the rear, which benefits from an en suite shower room. The family bathroom is also found on the first floor, with its over-bath shower.

At the front of the property, the block-paved driveway provides plenty of parking space for several vehicles.

The garden is located mostly to the rear, with its
west-facing aspect welcoming sunlight throughout the afternoons and into the summer evenings. It includes a patio area for al fresco dining, accessed directly via the kitchen and dining room’s sliding doors. Beyond the patio there is an area of lawn, bordered by established shrubs and hedgerows, which extends to approximately 100ft, while at the end of the plot there is a peaceful green-roofed studio, which is ideal for home working, or for use as a gym or further reception room. The studio is timber-clad and features its covered deck, as well as sliding doors and a skylight, which welcome plenty of natural light.

The property is set in a popular and convenient
location within very easy reach of the mainline station with its fast through services via St Pancras
International to the City (19 minutes) Gatwick and
beyond. Road users enjoy easy access to the M1, M25 and the A1(M) and to the airports at Heathrow, Luton and Stansted. The City Centre with its wealth of amenities including shopping, leisure activities and excellent state and public schools is close at hand, as are the green spaces at Clarence Park, The Wick, Bernards Heath and Verulamium Park.