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House For Sale £950,000
Stoneygate Avenue, Leicester LE2


Description
If you are looking for a fine example of a Victorian family home in Leicester that successfully merges its handsome historic features with the accoutrements of a 21st-century lifestyle, then look no further – Stoneygate Avenue offers it all.

Historic meets contemporary

This impressive 6/7-bedroom family home sits within the charming, highly-regarded Stoneygate conservation area, two miles from the city centre. The leafy and refined residential suburb is characterised by its large Victorian and Edwardian houses, and Stoneygate Avenue is among the cream of the crop.

It was designed by Goddard & Paget, one of Leicester’s best architects of the late 19th/early 20th century. They favoured a ‘pick and mix’ of styles, so their houses were all different but beautifully designed and full of interest and character.

Perfectly proportioned in half render/half brick, Stoneygate Avenue’s front façade is graced with three delightful bay windows and the house nestles privately behind a low brick wall and screen of shrubbery. The rear garden is an exquisite, cultivated delight – large, enclosed and private. The garden backs onto the tennis courts of Leicestershire Tennis & Squash Club, so the only sound you are likely to hear is the gentle pop of tennis ball on racquet. There is a gate from the garden through to the tennis club and currently the residents benefit from a complementary social membership.

Within its walls, the property offers 3,841 sq ft of beautifully presented, flexible accommodation extending across three floors, plus a cellar.

Room to grow

Entry to the house is via a wrought-iron gate and pathway down the side of the house to the impressive ornately glazed front door under a handsome archway with overhead lantern.

Step into an inner lobby and through another door into the charming carpeted hallway with staircase up to the bedrooms and down to the cellar - which also houses the double Gloworm gas boilers for the central heating. There’s a cloakroom and utility room off the hall.

Doors lead from here to the main reception rooms with the delightful dining (18x15ft) and sitting (18x17ft) rooms positioned side-by-side at the front of the house, both with large bay windows which flood the rooms with light.

The dining room has a dado rail and decorative cornicing, feature open fireplace, solid wood flooring and is painted a restful shade of heritage blue. Next door, the equally impressive sitting room has a white colour scheme, carpeting, decorative cornicing, feature fireplace and an illuminated wall alcove.

A generous study is flooded with light and has superb views of the garden via a wall of double doors and windows.

The kitchen/breakfast room is another generous space (21x14ft) with double sliding doors opening onto a set of steps leading down to the garden. There is underfloor-heated tiled flooring. The solid timber kitchen units with grey stone composite Askilan worktops are configured neatly under a window in a near-square shape, thereby dividing the kitchen from the rest of the room. There’s an integrated dishwasher and fridge.

Descend a few steps via glazed sliding double doors to the light and airy snug/TV room, which was added by the previous home-owner. With a timber-clad ceiling and large skylight, it’s a great place to relax and has a triple set of glazed sliding doors opening onto the garden patio.

And so to bed . .

Ascend the stairs to the first floor where a breath-taking original stained glass window casts plenty of light onto the large landing. There is carpeting throughout the upper two floors, apart from in the bathrooms.

The principal bedroom (15x12ft) is at the front of the house with a shallow raised dais under the large bay window and a massive array of ultra-useful fitted wardrobe and drawers storage. Adjoining this is the en-suite bathroom with corner shower cubicle.

The second bedroom on the first floor (14x13ft) has shelving and cupboards. Two further bedrooms (14x9ft and 12x11ft) are interconnecting and have a double mirrored wardrobe. This would be ideal for siblings who don’t like to be separated!

A contemporary bathroom with freestanding original Victorian bath and a separate shower room with WC completes the layout on the first floor.

Climb another set of stairs to another lovely landing on the second floor and three further good-sized bedrooms, all with original fireplaces and two with built-in wardrobes. A large bathroom serves these rooms and there’s also a separate home sauna.

The great outdoors

You can’t help but fall in love with the spacious garden with its lush lawn, curvaceous flower borders, raised paved patio with triple orb water feature and decorative pond with fountain. There is also a useful garden shed. The garden has obviously been meticulously thought-out and beautifully maintained over the years. At the moment, it’s a riot of pink blossom.

The house has an attached double-length garage (31x10ft) with electric door and there’s parking space for one vehicle on the drive.

Location, location, location

This property is idyllically located in a peaceful suburb but within a bus trip, cycle ride or walk to the city centre and its top-notch amenities. But you need not venture far at all to find all that you need. With its cosmopolitan feel, Stoneygate is a wonderful place to browse a choice of independent boutiques and shops or to dine, drink and chill-out at trendy eateries and bars in Francis Street, Allendale Road and Queens Road.
Stoneygate has a medical practice, Victoria Park for strolling and relaxing, and an excellent range of state and private schools very close by.
The commute to work is simple from the leafy streets of Stoneygate. Hospital Hopper bus services serve the Leicester hospitals and Leicester train station is less than a 10-minute car journey away.

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