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4 bedroom apartment

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4 beds
2 baths
1711
EPC rating: C
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Key information

TenureLeasehold | 166 yrs left
Council taxBand D
BroadbandUltra-fast 1000Mbps *
Mobile signal
EEO2ThreeVodafone

Features and description

  • Ground Floor Duplex Apartment
  • Accommodation 1717 sq ft
  • Three Double Bedrooms
  • Fourth Bedroom / Study
  • Victorian Period Features
  • Recent Extensive Refurbishment
  • Within Walking Distance to Renowned Schools
  • Close to City Centre
  • Within Easy Reach of Mainline Train Station
  • Landmark Building
* GUIDE PRICE £350,000 - £375,000 *

A Victorian four bedroom duplex apartment situated in the highly desirable residential area of Lexden, offering convenient access to Colchester's city centre with its excellent range of shopping and recreation facilities. Benefits include many fine original features throughout, two bathrooms and, over the last two years having been thoroughly and lovingly updated,

Accommodation includes a long hallway, lounge, dining room that exhibit classic Victorian high ceilings, a recently fitted high quality kitchen/breakfast room with marble worktops and a Fisher & Paykel range cooker and a ground floor walk-in shower room. The basement level leads to three double bedrooms, one with an en-suite, and a single bedroom that is currently fitted out as a study. The apartment benefits a south facing courtyard garden. On street permit parking

This home has gone through extensive refurbishment, ensuring to keep the original character and features. Some of the refurbishments include new heating system, new flooring throughout, updated bathrooms, a new high end kitchen, new external doors to the lounge with bespoke Italian internal doors fitted.

Built in 1886 by stonemason and architect L J Watts who acquired materiasl generated by the demolition of St Runwald’s church, re-cycled what he could to build at least three different buildings (which he also designed), including these properties on Creffield Road.

This apartment forms part of the very distinctive and large prominent building on corner of Creffield Road and Oxford Road. Distinctive with its turret and originally built as a terrace of four houses. In 1950s and 1960s, in part, becoming a primary school. The properties are now all privately owned and is now split into stylish apartments. Steeped in history and one of the older buildings in Lexden

This property is leasehold with no service charge or ground rent. There is a monthly maintenance and insurance cost. Each owner has a 1/3 of the freehold.

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What's Nearby
Trains from Colchester take approximately 50 minutes to London Liverpool Street Station. The City also boasts two nationally acclaimed Grammar schools - Colchester Royal Grammar School and Colchester Girls High. There are a range of independent schools including St Mary’s for Girls, Colchester High School, Oxford House, and Holmwood House and highly regarded state schools such as Philip Morant, St Benedicts, Hamilton Road Primary and Home Farm Primary Schools, all within walking distance. For leisure and fitness you're a short distance to David Lloyd Centre and Bannatyne Health Club & Spa Kingsford Park both offering superb swimming pools and a variety of fitness activities and facilities

INFORMATION
Tenure - Leasehold and 1/3 ownership of freehold Lease term - 167 years No service charge or ground rent Maintenance and insurance - £75 per month. Local Authority - Colchester Services - Main gas, electric, water and drainage

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Chewton Rose - Colchester
Chewton Rose - Colchester
158 High Street Colchester CO1 1PG
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