5 bedroom semi-detached house for sale
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Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Versatile accommodation arranged over 3 floors and extending to 1,669 sq ft (155 sq m)
- Wealth of period features including feature fireplaces throughout
- Bright Sitting Room with built in cupboards, inset modern gas fireplace and bay window
- Media Room/Snug with fitted cupboards and patio doors to Garden
- Lovely Kitchen/Dining Room with wall and base units and integrated appliances, access to Utility area and bi fold doors leading to Garden
- Second floor principal Bedroom with en suite Shower Room
- 4 further Bedrooms on first floor and family Bathroom
- Gas central heating
- Courtyard Garden
- Off road parking and electric charging point for one vehicle
City centre 0.5 of a mile, easy access to Cambridge central and Cambridge North train stations with direct connections to London, within 2.5 miles. A14, M11 and Science Park within 2 miles. (Distances are approximated).
99 Alpha Road is believed to date to c.1860 and is constructed with brick elevations under a tiled roof. The property is a fine example of the period with well-proportioned rooms and high ceilings. During the current ownership, the property has undergone an extensive project of modernisation to include new kitchen, downstairs WC, ensuite shower room, boiler, radiators, re-wiring, re-plumbing and new windows to the front bay, upstairs bedrooms 2 and 4 and downstairs kitchen window with the addition of bespoke trifold Kitchen dining room doors and new double doors to the media room, with care being taken to retain the period features.
Alpha Road is a much sought after residential area, pleasantly situated just to the north of Chesterton Road, within 300 yards of the River Cam and Jesus Green, an extensive public park with outdoor swimming pool, tennis courts and children’s play area. The heart of the city centre with its attractive combination of ancient and modern buildings, colleges, and extensive shopping facilities is within about half a mile and easily accessible on foot or by bicycle, with several local schools close by including Kindred Nursery per-school, St Lukes, Park Street and Milton Road primary. Also Chesterton Community College and Parkside secondary schools a short distance away. Cambridge is not only world renowned for its academic achievements but has also become a 'high-tech' and 'bio-tech' hub with the University Research and Development Laboratories, Cambridge Science Park and Addenbrooke's Hospital/Biomedical Campus. For the commuter, the city's mainline railway station is about 2.5 miles away and provides services to London's King's Cross and Liverpool Street in approximately 52 minutes and 67 minutes respectively. A new railway station is located on the east side of Chesterton (about 2.5 miles) and as well as providing services to King's Cross and Liverpool Street, it also connects to the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway and provide an inter-change with the Park and Ride and local bus services.
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