The Embankment Marina, Albion Parade, Kent, Gravesend

Property Reference number : 485735

Large liveaboard 3 bed Houseboat - £225,000 (private sale)

The Embankment Marina, Gravesend

Dutch Barge converted to a 3 bedroomed liveaboard Houseboat, located on the quayside on a residential mooring in Gravesend beside the river Thames. Recently refurbished it boasts a large kitchen/diner/social space, shower room, 2 double and 1 single bedrooms (currently set up as a home office with 30mb broadband speed), a large lounge with wood burner, dining area for 10 people, separate utility room and plenty of storage including large workshop area. And there is still room to expand the accommodation if you so wish. This lovely liveaboard home is kept toasty by oil fired radiator central heating and has a 2000L oil tank onboard.

The bright and airy kitchen area includes a 1.5 bowl sink, large fridge-freezer, double gas fired range style cooker and integral dishwasher and the double-doors open onto the covered rear deck for outdoor relaxing or socials and the wide ramp to the quayside and marina car park.

The Embankment Marina (see Marina Facilities below) has a mix of residential and leisure moorings with a good community feel, all in a locked basin so the boat doesn’t wobble. You often get ducks or egrets swimming past your portholes and sunny morning brings twinkling reflections of the water on the ceiling and walls of the boat.

Answers to frequently asked questions:

-Yes it’s warm onboard! We don’t do cold and therefore have the benefit of central heating throughout from an oil fired boiler designed to heat a 10 bedroomed house!
-Permanently hooked up to an individual 240v electrical supply and billed by marina monthly.
-1000L water tank onboard which is easily filled from the pontoon freshwater supply.
-We have a 2021 out of water survey following hull repairs and full repaint.
-She is 86ft long and 18ft wide.
-Detroit 6cyl engine and marine transmission fitted but never run or used.
-Council tax is charged at the lowest Band A rate.
-Broadband is available from your usual provider.
-The Embankment Marina charges apply for mooring on a rolling annual basis.
-Water is currently not charged for by the marina.

Rooms:
-Large open kitchen/diner social area
-Upstairs shower room with loo on mains drainage
-Large open fore deck area
-Covered rear deck seating area
-Utility room with washing machine and drying racks

Benefits:
-Quayside mooring next to marina car park
-Locked marina car park (1 car parking plus free on road parking)
-Large access ramp
-Historic area – Promenade, Fort & Gardens, against the river Thames
-Short walk to mainline hi speed trains to London (St Pancras 23 mins) or the coast
-Mains drainage (so no pump outs!)
-Oil-fired central heating (easy access for tanker deliveries)
-Double range cooker & large fridge freezer
-Council Tax lowest band A
-Two living levels but still looks like a boat.
-Full headroom (6ft 2”) upstairs and down
-Normal household staircase
-Stable, doesn’t rock/move
-Just refurbished throughout including new roof
-Animal friendly marina community
-Short walk to main shops in Gravesend town or local “corner” shop
-Communal garden and seating area

Marina facilities:
-On site parking
-Shower and loo block
-Post room
-Laundry room
-Marina office and workshops
-Electric & water hook up

The Embankment Marina has level lit pontoons and a good community feel. The garden areas have been created by the residents and are for residents use.

Purchase information:
This is a private sale by the owners who have done extensive work to make her into a lovely family home. It is a chain-free purchase, however as it’s a residential liveaboard barge it will need to be a cash purchase rather than via a standard mortgage.

Transfer of the residential mooring has been agreed with The Embankment Marina and you would need to sign a new Residential Mooring Agreement with them accordingly.

Council Tax: A

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Property Reference number : 485735