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1 bedroom retirement property
Key information
Features and description
- Tenure: Leasehold (124 years remaining)
- First Floor Apartment
- One Bedroom
- Lift Access
- Communal Gardens
- Communal Parking
- Council Tax Band C
- EPC Rating B
Constructed by McCarthy and Stone in the post millennium period, Mallard Court is an appealing retirement location due to its very attractive communal gardens, and excellent proximity to both the facilities within nearby Upton as well as the historic Roman city of Chester.
Excellent connections to the wider north-west road network can be reached via the A41 and onward links therefrom.
The development itself, which is restricted to those of 60 years and above, also has the particular benefits of a communal laundry, communal parking area, communal sitting room, and a communal guest suite, as well as a house manager.
The apartment itself has double glazed windows, electric storage heaters, an electric hot water heating system, connections to mains water, mains electricity, and mains drainage, and the following accommodation which is described in detail below.
Rooms
Communal Entrance Hall
With staircase and lift leading to the communal first floor landing and the private accommodation of the subject apartment as follows.
Private Entrance Hall
7ft 5 x 6ft 10 - with emergency pull cord, and doorways leading to the sitting/dining room, bedroom, shower room, and boiler/store cupboard.
Boiler/Store Cupboard
6ft 6 x 2ft 9 - with electricity circuit breaker control panel, electricity meter, and a high capacity high pressure, electrically heated hot water cylinder.
Sitting/Dining Room
21ft 2 x 10ft 11 - A well proportioned main reception room with feature fireplace surround, television point, telephone point, emergency pull cord, electric storage heater and double inner doors leading to the kitchen.
Bedroom
15ft 7 x 9ft 0 - with television point, telephone point, electric storage heater, emergency pull cord, and folding mirror door fronted wardrobe/storage cupboard
Shower Room
6ft 9 x 5ft 6 - with white suite having chromium fittings comprising larger than average tiled shower cubicle with fitted twin head thermostatically controlled shower unit, cabinet style wash hand basin with facing mirror, electric light/shaver point, dual flush WC, tiled walls, tiled flooring, fan, wall mounted electric fan heater, and an electrically heated ladder style towel rail/radiator.
Communal Areas
A comfortable and well appointed communal lounge is situated adjacent to the hallway which together with it’s residents’ kitchen and toilet provides an excellent meeting place for social activities throughout the year.
A well equipped laundry room and the availability of a resident’s guest bedroom provide valuable resources for all residents to use.
Outside
To the side and rear of the building there are particularly attractive and well maintained communal gardens in two distinct sections. To the front of the building there is a communal parking area.
Tenure
The property is of leasehold tenure having the benefit of a 125 year lease dating from the 1st of May 2001. This lease is subject to a variable annual ground rent of £350 per annum for the first 23 years of the term, this ground rent being payable in two six monthly instalments.
There is also a service charge in respect of items of communal expense and maintenance this being currently set at £2201.18 per annum, and is also payable in two six monthly instalments.
Directions
From Chester proceed out of the city in a northerly direction along the Liverpool Road taking the right hand turning at the mini roundabout just after the junction with Countess Way. Continue through the Bache and up Mill Lane turning right at the mini roundabout into Wealstone Lane. After a further short distance turn left into Weston Grove. Continue to the end of Weston Grove turning left at the main “A” road and after a short distance left again into Mallard Court.
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