Bedford Road, Hitchin, SG5

GUIDE PRICE £170k to £190k.

There is a nice version of everyday life here.

Walk into Hitchin for coffee, dinner or a wander around town. Come home knowing where the car is going. Drop the shopping inside without climbing flights of stairs, then close the door on the day and have a flat with enough separation between living, cooking and sleeping to feel like a proper home.

For a first purchase, a home for one or two, or simply somewhere that makes life easier to manage, Chestnut Court has a lot going for it.

The living and dining room is where you will spend most of your time, and the bay window gives it a little more personality than the usual four walls. Put a table there and breakfast gets the best seat in the house. Use it for a desk and working from home feels less tucked away. Or leave it as somewhere to sit with a coffee, a book and a bit of the outside world going past.

There is enough room beyond it for the sofa, television and dining furniture without everything competing for the same few feet of floor space. Someone can be working at the table while somebody else watches television, or you can have friends over without immediately wishing you had bought somewhere bigger.

The kitchen sits just off the living room through an archway, so it feels connected without everything happening in one space. There is sensible worktop and cupboard space for everyday cooking, while the layout still lets the living area remain the place to sit, eat and switch off.

Storage is another of those things you appreciate far more once you actually live somewhere. The hallway cupboards mean coats, shoes, bags, towels, the hoover and everything else accumulated through the week have somewhere to go. It keeps the main rooms free for living rather than slowly becoming storage themselves.

When it is time for 40 winks, you can close the bedroom door and properly switch off. It is a genuine double room with a fitted wardrobe, so clothes have somewhere to disappear and there is still room for the bedroom to feel like a bedroom.

Mornings are straightforward too. The bathroom has a bath with shower over, so it works equally well for the five-minute dash before work or the considerably slower version at the end of the day when nowhere else needs you for a while.

Being on the ground floor adds to the ease of the place. Shopping comes straight in, heading out is simple, and you are not repeatedly making the journey up and down through a block every time you have forgotten something in the car.

And there is an allocated space waiting for that car when you get back.

That is particularly useful in Hitchin because owning a car and wanting to use it all the time are two different things. Town is close enough for cafés, pubs, restaurants, independent shops and the everyday bits and pieces that are much nicer to pick up on foot. The station also keeps commuting practical when work takes you further afield.

For anyone moving into the area, Hitchin is one of those towns where weekends can stay local. Meet somebody for breakfast, wander into town, grab a drink later, take a walk or simply head home again without turning every outing into a car journey. Around Chestnut Court itself, the communal grounds give the building a greener, more open setting without handing you a list of gardening jobs every weekend.

Put all of that together and the appeal becomes fairly straightforward: your own front door, a proper living room, separate kitchen, double bedroom, useful storage, allocated parking and Hitchin close at hand. For somebody wanting their own place and wanting life around it to feel easy, that is a pretty good combination.

| ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Council Tax Band - B

EPC Rating - D

Service Charge - £955.98 P.A.

Leasehold -  92 Years Remaining

| GROUND FLOOR

Living Room: Approx 13' 9" x 11' 3" (4.19m x 3.42m) 

Kitchen: Approx 7' 10" x 6' 0" (2.40m x 1.83m) 

Bedroom One: Approx 8' 7" x 7' 7" (2.62m x 2.32m) 

Bathroom: Approx 6' 9" x 6' 0" (2.06m x 1.83m) 

| OUTSIDE

Communal off road parking