1 bedroom apartment for sale
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Leasehold (116 years remaining)
- Retirement Living Plus
- Walk out Balcony
- Home Owners Lounge
- Camera door entry System
- Guest Suite for visiting friends & family
- Fantastic development on the banks of the River Avon
- Estate Manager + 24 hour staffing
- On site table service Restaurant
- Amazing communal facilities
This immaculately presented One Bedroom top floor apartment with walk out balcony is available in this purpose built Retirement Living Development
Summary - Located on the top floor of this sought-after Retirement development for those aged 70 years and over this one bedroomed apartment provides spacious yet economical accommodation with the security and peace of mind that comes hand-in-glove with a McCarthy and Stone ‘Retirement Living Plus’ development. The property enjoys excellent communal facilities including a Homeowners lounge, bistro with a fantastic, varied and susidised daily lunch service, laundry, scooter store and landscaped gardens backing onto the River Avon. Our Estate Manager is available to support the needs of Homeowners and to oversee the smooth running of the development. There are chargeable care and domestic help packages available albeit all home owners receive up to 1 hour free domestic assistance each week. All apartments are equipped with a 24-hour emergency call system. There is also the excellent guest suite widely used by visiting family and friends for which a charge of £25 per night applies.
The property enjoys a good-sized lounge with the interest of a street view. In addition, there is an excellent double bedroom fitted kitchen with integrated appliances and easy access wet room with shower.
Bowles Court was completed at the end of 2015 and occupies a pleasant position just 200 metres from the centre of town. A variety of local supermarkets can be found nearby and the Town Centre also boasts access to a local Hospital and plenty of Doctors surgeries. Banks, retail stores and independent shops. There are also regular traditional town markets. Places of interest in the local area are varied, with John Coles Park, the museum and Heritage Centre and Chippenham folk festival just a few examples. For those interested in wider travel, transport links are strong with regular bus services connecting residents to towns including Bath, Calne, Devizes, Trowbridge and Swindon. Rail links are also good and Chippenham railway station features along the main line to London Paddington.
Entrance Hallway - With solid entrance door having security spy-hole, Intercom entry system linked visually (by home owner’s TV tuning) and verbally to the main development entrance ensuring no unwanted visitors. Emergency pull cord, large walk-in boiler cupboard with shelving and light and housing Gledhill boiler supplying domestic hot water. Ceiling downlights.
Living Room - Large living space leading to triple glazed french door lead onto a walk out balcony. feature part glazed paneled door to kitchen.
Kitchen - With triple-glazed window. Range of ‘Maple-effect’ fitted wall and base units having contrasting laminate worktops with matching upstand splashbacks and incorporating a stainless steel single drainer inset sink unit and soft water system. Integrated appliances include a Bosch ceramic four-ringed electric hob with matching glass splashback and stainless steel chimney style extractor hood over, Neff high-level single oven with ’tilt and slide door’ and concealed fridge and freezer, ceiling downlights and tiled floor. Washing machine and dishwasher to be included in sale.
Bedroom - Excellent double bedroom with triple-glazed window, step-in wardrobe with ample hanging rails, shelving and auto light.
Shower Room - A wet room facility with modern white suite comprising of; Close Coupled WC, inset vanity wash hand basin with under sink store cupboard and mirror and integrated light. Large level access fully tiled walk-in shower with ‘rain drop’ shower head, separate shower on a slide attachment and shower seat. Walls are half-tiled to the remainder. Electrically heated towel rail/radiator, emergency pull cord, vinyl wet room flooring, and ceiling downlights.
Service Charge (Breakdown) - • Cleaning of communal windows
• Water rates for communal areas and apartments
• Electricity, heating, lighting and power to communal areas
• 24 hour emergency call system
• Upkeep of gardens and grounds
• Repairs and maintenance to the interior and exterior communal areas
• Contingency fund including internal and external redecoration of communal areas
• Buildings insurance
• Restaurant staffing
• One hour of domestic support per week is included in the service charge at Bowles Court with additional services including care and support
available at an extra charge. However, this can be from as little as 15 minutes per session which can be increased or decreased to suit your needs.
The Service charge does not cover external costs such as your Council Tax, electricity or TV, but does include the cost of your Estates Manager, your water rates, our 24 hour emergency call system, the heating and maintenance of all communal areas and all external window cleaning, exterior property maintenance and gardening. To find out more about the service charges please contact your Property Consultant or Estates Manager.
Service Charge: £8,792.38 per annum (up financial year end 30/09/2025)
Lease Information - LEASE 125 Years from 2015
Ground rent: £435 per annum
Ground rent review date: June 2030
Car Parking Permit Scheme- Subject To Availability - Parking is by allocated space subject to availability. The fee is usually £250 per annum, but may vary by development. Permits are available on a first come, first served basis. Please check with the House Manager on site for availability.
Additional Information And Services - • Standard Broadband available
• Mains water and electricity
• Electric room heating
• Mains drainage
Property information from this agent
Places of interest
See more properties like this:
*DISCLAIMER
Property reference 33407128. The information displayed about this property comprises a property advertisement. OnTheMarket.com makes no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the advertisement or any linked or associated information, and OnTheMarket.com has no control over the content provided by the agent or developer. This property advertisement does not constitute property particulars. The information is provided and maintained by McCarthy Stone - Resales.
OnTheMarket may have applied supplementary data to this property listing, including:
Broadband availability and predicted speed: obtained from Ofcom on December 22, 2021
Broadband speed is measured in megabits per second, with the number returned showing how fast the connection is. Each reading is based on the highest predicted speed of any major broadband network for services that deliver the download speeds. The following are the different readings that we may display:
Basic: Up to 30 Mbit/s
Super-fast: Between 30 Mbit/s and 300 Mbit/s
Ultra-fast: Over 300 Mbit/s
The data is updated three times a year. The checker results are predictions and should not be regarded as guaranteed. For more information, see: https://checker.ofcom.org.uk/en-gb/about-checker#Answer_0_2
Mobile phone signal availability and predicted strength: obtained from Ofcom on December 22, 2021
Mobile signal predictions are provided by the four UK mobile network operators: EE, O2, Three and Vodafone. Predictions can vary significantly from the coverage you may actually experience as a result of local factors (especially terrain). Ofcom has tested the actual coverage provided in various locations around the UK to help ensure that these predictions are reasonable. The values shown against a property can be broken down as follows:
Clear: No bars, no signal predicted
Red: One bar, reliable signal unlikely
Amber: Two bars, may experience problems with connectivity
Green: Three bars, likely to have good coverage and receive a data rate to support basic web services
Enhanced: Full bars, likely to have good coverage indoors and to receive an enhanced data rate to support multimedia services
Energy Performance data and Internal floor area: obtained on April 8, 2016 from The Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 or the Home Report if in relation to a residential property in Scotland.
Any supplementary data should not be relied upon as forming part of any property particulars and OnTheMarket cannot be held responsible for any incorrectness in this data. See here for more information.