House For Sale £600,000
This beautifully presented five bedroom semi-detached home is set on a desirable residential street in the highly sought after area of Earlsdon. The property provides an abundance of accommodation with a mixture of original features and modern fittings.
Description
This beautifully presented semi-detached home is set on a desirable residential street in the highly sought after area of Earlsdon. The property provides an abundance of accommodation with a mixture of original features and modern fittings.
Upon entering the home you are greeted by an impressive hall with a beautiful staircase and oak parquet flooring flooring leading to the ground floor living space. To the front there is a characterful lounge with a feature fire and a lovely bay window allowing plenty of light into the room. Situated next to the reception room is a multifunctional room, formerly a garage this space has been utilised to form a home office / gym. To the rear of the home you have a fantastic open space forming a a lounge / diner offering a garden outlook. The kitchen also enjoys a garden aspect and comprises of modern low and high level cabinets. There is also a refitted bathroom to the ground floor.
To the first floor the home offers a spacious landing, four bedrooms with fantastic proportions and a shower room. There is a fifth bedroom located in the loft with storage facility in the eaves.
Externally the home offers parking for two cars to the front and a delightful rear garden which is mostly laid to lawn with tree lined borders. There is also a patio and veranda approached via french doors from the lounge.
Sellers Story
Our house has seen the transformation of the children from small to teens to young people about to make their mark on the world! We were so attracted by the large garden (room for chickens, a swing set, and a trampoline), and the lovely tree-lined street, and right across the street Earlsdon’s famous green house. Two bathrooms—so handy with two teenagers! And from the loft you can see all the way across Coventry, it feels like, and what a view for fireworks on Bonfire Night. Because the sitting room in our old house had been at the front, we even found ourselves calling our roomy lounge the ‘front room’, even though it’s at the back. This is a house that has always felt spacious and at the same time homely.
Our favourite room is the aforementioned ‘front room’, which combines a sitting room space, a dining space, and opens nicely into the kitchen. The cook has never had to be banished to a shut-off back space; the kids could do their homework in a family space; the ‘responsible adult’ could keep an eye on it all! And because the room is so large and open, we’ve been able to experiment, and have reversed the sitting and dining ends several times before we settled on our current lay-out.
We always liked the slightly old-fashioned look of the house (although over the years we have said a fond farewell to the avocado bathroom downstairs and the powder-blue suite upstairs, opting for something a bit more up-to-date). Soon after we moved in we decided to take up the carpets and have the pinewood floors polished up. Thrillingly, when the carpet came up in the hall we discovered a pristine oak parquet floor, covered by carpet for decades. Somewhat less thrilling, but rather interesting, was finding the 1970s linoleum under the carpet in the downstairs bathroom. The one we kept, the other we did not!
Unlike so many houses, our house has an open feel as soon as you walk in the door to the large foyer with its winding stairs, and openings into the bay-windowed lounge, the versatile side room (which used to be a garage), the short hall to the kitchen, and the back ‘front room’. Even upstairs, this continues; the hall is unusually large and since the stairs to the loft are at the back of the first floor, there’s such a feeling of space.
We will miss the beautiful built-in bookcases and shelves in the ‘front room’, the curve that graces the ceiling in the upstairs hall, the French doors that give us a lovely open view to the garden, and the small preserved area of original floral wallpaper next to the front door. It will be hard to say goodbye to the kids’ attempts to measure their heights on their doorframes (wildly inaccurate but a lovely memory). We will miss the proportions of the rooms. But a new job in the Southwest beckons, and the children are now their full heights and ready to find new doorframes.
Location
Earlsdon is considered to be the the most desirable residential areas in Coventry voted as one of the best places to live in the 'Sunday Times'. The hub of Earlsdon is what is locally referred to as the "Earlsdon High Street", in reality Earlsdon Street. This includes a number of restaurants, cafes and pubs amongst other retail shops. The area surrounding Earlsdon Street consists of further independent shops.
In the south of the locality is the large civic landscaped War Memorial Park. Local schooling includes Styvechale Primary, Finham Park, King Henry VIII (private) schools and Bishop Ullathorne. Coventry train station provides direct and regular access to both London and Birmingham with London links within approx 1 hour. University of Warwick and Coventry University are also accessible.
Description
This beautifully presented semi-detached home is set on a desirable residential street in the highly sought after area of Earlsdon. The property provides an abundance of accommodation with a mixture of original features and modern fittings.
Upon entering the home you are greeted by an impressive hall with a beautiful staircase and oak parquet flooring flooring leading to the ground floor living space. To the front there is a characterful lounge with a feature fire and a lovely bay window allowing plenty of light into the room. Situated next to the reception room is a multifunctional room, formerly a garage this space has been utilised to form a home office / gym. To the rear of the home you have a fantastic open space forming a a lounge / diner offering a garden outlook. The kitchen also enjoys a garden aspect and comprises of modern low and high level cabinets. There is also a refitted bathroom to the ground floor.
To the first floor the home offers a spacious landing, four bedrooms with fantastic proportions and a shower room. There is a fifth bedroom located in the loft with storage facility in the eaves.
Externally the home offers parking for two cars to the front and a delightful rear garden which is mostly laid to lawn with tree lined borders. There is also a patio and veranda approached via french doors from the lounge.
Sellers Story
Our house has seen the transformation of the children from small to teens to young people about to make their mark on the world! We were so attracted by the large garden (room for chickens, a swing set, and a trampoline), and the lovely tree-lined street, and right across the street Earlsdon’s famous green house. Two bathrooms—so handy with two teenagers! And from the loft you can see all the way across Coventry, it feels like, and what a view for fireworks on Bonfire Night. Because the sitting room in our old house had been at the front, we even found ourselves calling our roomy lounge the ‘front room’, even though it’s at the back. This is a house that has always felt spacious and at the same time homely.
Our favourite room is the aforementioned ‘front room’, which combines a sitting room space, a dining space, and opens nicely into the kitchen. The cook has never had to be banished to a shut-off back space; the kids could do their homework in a family space; the ‘responsible adult’ could keep an eye on it all! And because the room is so large and open, we’ve been able to experiment, and have reversed the sitting and dining ends several times before we settled on our current lay-out.
We always liked the slightly old-fashioned look of the house (although over the years we have said a fond farewell to the avocado bathroom downstairs and the powder-blue suite upstairs, opting for something a bit more up-to-date). Soon after we moved in we decided to take up the carpets and have the pinewood floors polished up. Thrillingly, when the carpet came up in the hall we discovered a pristine oak parquet floor, covered by carpet for decades. Somewhat less thrilling, but rather interesting, was finding the 1970s linoleum under the carpet in the downstairs bathroom. The one we kept, the other we did not!
Unlike so many houses, our house has an open feel as soon as you walk in the door to the large foyer with its winding stairs, and openings into the bay-windowed lounge, the versatile side room (which used to be a garage), the short hall to the kitchen, and the back ‘front room’. Even upstairs, this continues; the hall is unusually large and since the stairs to the loft are at the back of the first floor, there’s such a feeling of space.
We will miss the beautiful built-in bookcases and shelves in the ‘front room’, the curve that graces the ceiling in the upstairs hall, the French doors that give us a lovely open view to the garden, and the small preserved area of original floral wallpaper next to the front door. It will be hard to say goodbye to the kids’ attempts to measure their heights on their doorframes (wildly inaccurate but a lovely memory). We will miss the proportions of the rooms. But a new job in the Southwest beckons, and the children are now their full heights and ready to find new doorframes.
Location
Earlsdon is considered to be the the most desirable residential areas in Coventry voted as one of the best places to live in the 'Sunday Times'. The hub of Earlsdon is what is locally referred to as the "Earlsdon High Street", in reality Earlsdon Street. This includes a number of restaurants, cafes and pubs amongst other retail shops. The area surrounding Earlsdon Street consists of further independent shops.
In the south of the locality is the large civic landscaped War Memorial Park. Local schooling includes Styvechale Primary, Finham Park, King Henry VIII (private) schools and Bishop Ullathorne. Coventry train station provides direct and regular access to both London and Birmingham with London links within approx 1 hour. University of Warwick and Coventry University are also accessible.
