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Ashfield Road, Stoneygate, Leicester

PROPERTY TYPE

Detached

BEDROOMS

5

BATHROOMS

2

SIZE

2,759 sq ft

256 sq m

TENURE
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Freehold

Key features

  • Exceptional detached family home set within the Stoneygate Conservation Area
  • Stunning entrance hall with herringbone parquet flooring and open tread staircase
  • Spectacular kitchen and living extension with bifold doors opening to the south facing garden
  • Five double bedrooms and two bathrooms across the first floor
  • Heated outdoor swimming pool and hot tub set within a gloriously private third of an acre plot
  • Formal dining room over twenty feet in length plus separate sitting room with open fireplace
  • underground storage room, utility room, boot room and ground floor office
  • Minutes from outstanding schools, Victoria Park and Leicester railway station with direct trains to London

Description

A quite exceptional detached family home sitting on a plot of approximately one third of an acre in one of south Leicester's most celebrated residential addresses. Set within the Stoneygate Conservation Area, described by Leicester City Council as the city's best surviving Victorian suburb, this outstanding property blends the grandeur of original period features with a superbly designed contemporary extension and a gloriously private, south facing garden complete with heated swimming pool and hot tub. Rarely does a family home of this scale, character and position come to the market.

GROUND FLOOR

You enter this wonderful home into what is simply a stunning entrance hall. Expansive in scale, it immediately announces the quality and character of the house, with glorious Parquet flooring laid in a traditional herringbone pattern running underfoot, a beautiful open tread staircase rising elegantly ahead and a striking contemporary pendant light overhead. Doors open in multiple directions giving a wonderful sense of space and flow, and a generous landing window with original leaded glazing floods the stairwell with natural light. This is the kind of entrance hall that buyers remember long after they have left.

Off the hall flows a useful study, a comfortable family room and a striking sitting room with open fireplace. The formal dining room is a superb entertaining space at over twenty feet in length, comfortably accommodating a large table and benefiting from excellent natural light.

From the dining room extends the heart of this home, a spectacular recently constructed kitchen and living extension that is simply breathtaking. Fully fitted in a handsome grey shaker style with stone worktops and a substantial central island, the kitchen is everything a family could ask for. A large rooflight brings daylight flooding in from above, underfloor heating runs throughout, and a full width of bifold doors and floor to ceiling corner glazing blur the boundary between inside and out, with the south facing garden stretching away beyond. This is a space in which you will live every single day.

The ground floor is completed by a useful office and utility room, a separate boot room with garage type storage, and a cloakroom with WC. An underground storage room accessed from the kitchen adds a wonderful final flourish.

FIRST FLOOR

A central landing gives access to five double bedrooms, three of which are particularly generous in proportion, the largest extending to sixteen feet in width. The floor is served by a well appointed family bathroom and a separate shower room.

OUTSIDE

Set on approximately one third of an acre, the grounds are a genuine highlight of this property. Driveway parking to the front provides easy access to the house and to the garage type storage. To the rear, the south facing garden is a quite extraordinary private retreat, abundantly planted with mature shrubs and trees and enjoying generous patio and decked areas ideal for outdoor entertaining. A heated outdoor swimming pool sits alongside a hot tub, together forming an outdoor leisure space of the kind rarely found at a city address. Sunny, wholly private and beautifully maintained, the garden must be seen to be fully appreciated.

LOCATION

Ashfield Road sits within Stoneygate, widely regarded as Leicester's finest residential suburb and one of the East Midlands' most sought after addresses. Designated a Conservation Area in 1978 and covering some 93 hectares of broad, tree lined avenues, Stoneygate is characterised by its grand Victorian and Edwardian family homes, its strong sense of community and its remarkable convenience. Close enough to the city to enjoy everything it offers, whilst retaining an enviably peaceful, village like atmosphere.

Day to day life in Stoneygate is exceptionally well served. Allandale Road and Francis Street, both a short stroll from the property, offer an eclectic and much loved collection of independent boutiques, jewellery and homeware shops, beauty studios and a superb selection of independent cafes, bistros and restaurants. Nearby Queens Road in Clarendon Park adds further choice, with its own vibrant mix of bars, cafes and eateries perfect for relaxed weekend mornings or evenings out. De Montfort Hall, Leicester city centre and the local hospitals are all accessible within minutes.

For green space, the area is particularly well blessed. Knighton Park, Victoria Park with over 90 acres of trails, tennis courts and open fields, and the University of Leicester Botanic Garden originally founded in 1921 are all within easy reach. Leicester Racecourse is also close by.

In terms of schooling, the property sits within easy reach of Leicester High School, Leicester Grammar School, Stoneygate School and St Crispin's Grammar School, among others. Leicester railway station is approximately one mile away and offers a direct service to London St Pancras in around one hour. Market Harborough station provides a further option. By road the A6, A47, and the M1 and M69 motorway networks are all readily accessible, making this an outstanding location for commuters.
COUNCIL TAXA payment made to your local authority in order to pay for local services like schools, libraries, and refuse collection. The amount you pay depends on the value of the property.Read more about council Tax in our glossary page.
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PARKINGDetails of how and where vehicles can be parked, and any associated costs.Read more about parking in our glossary page.
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GARDENA property has access to an outdoor space, which could be private or shared.
Rear garden
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Affordability

Monthly repayments£4,219
Property: £ 925,000
Deposit: £ 92,500
Interest rate: 4.5%
Term: 30 years
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