House For Sale £475,000
Elegant Georgian 6-bedroom residence offering accommodation over three storeys with a cellar, two garages & garden. Reception hall, 2 fine receptions, cellar, kitchen, utility, 6 bedrooms, bathroom shower room. Attractive garden. Two detached garages (Leasehold). EPC Rating: E. Council Tax Band D.
Situation - Roscrea is ideally situated on St Nicholas Street only about 150 yards walk from the town centre. Being the historic county town of Cornwall, Bodmin offers a comprehensive range of shops, cafes, restaurants and public houses. It has a wide variety of recreational facilities including the Dragon Leisure Centre, a four screen cinema plus many community based clubs and associations. Bodmin is home to a cross section of visitor attractions - Bodmin Jail, Bodmin & Wenford Steam Railway and the Camel Trail to name a few. Bodmin has highly respected schools and colleges. Bodmin Parkway, on the London Paddington line, is about 4 miles to the south of the town and Bodmin, being centrally situated in Cornwall and adjacent to the A30(T) is well positioned to access both north and south coasts and the county.
Description - Believed to have been originally constructed in 1805, Roscrea is of Georgian origin and has been mainly used as a residential home, but also has an interesting history of billeting the WAAFs during WWII and in the early 1950's was the Borough Council Weights & Measures Office.
The approach is from St Nicholas' Street via original imposing front door, with inset light and granite arch over with ROSCREA inscribed therein, which opens to an inviting Reception Hall with high ceilings, original ceiling coving and original turning balustrade staircase to the first floor. From the Reception Hall there are internal slate steps down to a full height spacious Cellar with an extensive range of wine rack storage, as well as further storage areas.
On the ground floor is a pleasant front Living Room with stone fireplace with wooden surround and mantle and inset woodburner on slate hearth, original mullion triple arched windows, original ceiling coving, two ceiling roses, high ceilings and exposed floorboards.
Adjacent is a good-sized Sitting Room with double aspect including high glazed doors with shutters which open to an outside seating terrace, an original kitchen hatch and Victorian fireplace with patterned slip tiles and timber surround, mantle and slate hearth.
At the rear of the Reception Hall are steps which lead down to a small Inner Hall off which is a Cloakroom with high level wc, and a Kitchen with matching range of base and eye level units with rolled worktop surfaces to splashback tiling, inset stainless steel single drainer sink unit with vegetable bowl and mixer tap, integral Beko dishwasher, Kenwood cooking range with oven and grill and separate second oven with six gas rings and extractor hood over, recess for freestanding refrigerator/freezer and part obscure glazed door to outside seating terrace. Adjacent is a Utility Room with double aspect with glazed uPVC glazed door to outside and range of base and eye level kitchen units with rolled worktop surfaces, space and plumbing for washing machine and tumble dryer, deep earthenware sink unit with mixer tap and tray recess.
The second floor is approached via the original staircase with shallow tread stairs and turning balustrade which leads up to a balustrade Landing off which there are doors to four Bedrooms, two of which benefit from En Suite facilities including a fully tiled shower with concertina door and rainshower, wc and washbasin; as well as a Bathroom with panelled bath with rainshower and screen over, wc and washbasin.
Stairs, with under-stairs Cupboard, lead to a second floor where, off a small Landing are two good sized Bedrooms (with part restricted ceiling heights) and exposed ceiling timbers; and, a central Shower Room with part exposed ceiling timbers, tiled shower with rainshower, washbasin and wc.
Outside - There is a delightful well established rear garden with Cornish hedge and traditional standing slate boundary.
Immediately adjacent to the house is a paved seating terrace with flowerbed borders and from which there is a door which opens to a side covered Passageway with door to the front.
From the paved seating terrace, there are steps down to a path, beside which is a stone and slate former privy (now a log store) and off which are further stone chipped paths and seating areas with adjacent flower and shrub beds and with a central apple tree. These areas lead to an area of level lawn at the end of the garden, around which are further shrubs and plants, a stone chipped seating area and a large timber Garden Shed
The Garages - Situated about 200 yards walk from the house are a pair of detached Garages with outside parking and they benefit from an electric supply. The two Garages are held on a 139 year lease paying a peppercorn rent and of which there are 124 years unexpired.
Viewing - Strictly and only by prior appointment with Stags' Truro office on[use Contact Agent Button].
Directions - From the Fore Street Shoppers public car park (The Cinema Car Park) walk back to St Nicholas Street and turn right up the hill. Roscrea will be found on the left hand side after about 50 yards.
Services - All mains services connected. Mains gas central heating. Mainly secondary glazed. Broadband available. TV and telephone points.
Situation - Roscrea is ideally situated on St Nicholas Street only about 150 yards walk from the town centre. Being the historic county town of Cornwall, Bodmin offers a comprehensive range of shops, cafes, restaurants and public houses. It has a wide variety of recreational facilities including the Dragon Leisure Centre, a four screen cinema plus many community based clubs and associations. Bodmin is home to a cross section of visitor attractions - Bodmin Jail, Bodmin & Wenford Steam Railway and the Camel Trail to name a few. Bodmin has highly respected schools and colleges. Bodmin Parkway, on the London Paddington line, is about 4 miles to the south of the town and Bodmin, being centrally situated in Cornwall and adjacent to the A30(T) is well positioned to access both north and south coasts and the county.
Description - Believed to have been originally constructed in 1805, Roscrea is of Georgian origin and has been mainly used as a residential home, but also has an interesting history of billeting the WAAFs during WWII and in the early 1950's was the Borough Council Weights & Measures Office.
The approach is from St Nicholas' Street via original imposing front door, with inset light and granite arch over with ROSCREA inscribed therein, which opens to an inviting Reception Hall with high ceilings, original ceiling coving and original turning balustrade staircase to the first floor. From the Reception Hall there are internal slate steps down to a full height spacious Cellar with an extensive range of wine rack storage, as well as further storage areas.
On the ground floor is a pleasant front Living Room with stone fireplace with wooden surround and mantle and inset woodburner on slate hearth, original mullion triple arched windows, original ceiling coving, two ceiling roses, high ceilings and exposed floorboards.
Adjacent is a good-sized Sitting Room with double aspect including high glazed doors with shutters which open to an outside seating terrace, an original kitchen hatch and Victorian fireplace with patterned slip tiles and timber surround, mantle and slate hearth.
At the rear of the Reception Hall are steps which lead down to a small Inner Hall off which is a Cloakroom with high level wc, and a Kitchen with matching range of base and eye level units with rolled worktop surfaces to splashback tiling, inset stainless steel single drainer sink unit with vegetable bowl and mixer tap, integral Beko dishwasher, Kenwood cooking range with oven and grill and separate second oven with six gas rings and extractor hood over, recess for freestanding refrigerator/freezer and part obscure glazed door to outside seating terrace. Adjacent is a Utility Room with double aspect with glazed uPVC glazed door to outside and range of base and eye level kitchen units with rolled worktop surfaces, space and plumbing for washing machine and tumble dryer, deep earthenware sink unit with mixer tap and tray recess.
The second floor is approached via the original staircase with shallow tread stairs and turning balustrade which leads up to a balustrade Landing off which there are doors to four Bedrooms, two of which benefit from En Suite facilities including a fully tiled shower with concertina door and rainshower, wc and washbasin; as well as a Bathroom with panelled bath with rainshower and screen over, wc and washbasin.
Stairs, with under-stairs Cupboard, lead to a second floor where, off a small Landing are two good sized Bedrooms (with part restricted ceiling heights) and exposed ceiling timbers; and, a central Shower Room with part exposed ceiling timbers, tiled shower with rainshower, washbasin and wc.
Outside - There is a delightful well established rear garden with Cornish hedge and traditional standing slate boundary.
Immediately adjacent to the house is a paved seating terrace with flowerbed borders and from which there is a door which opens to a side covered Passageway with door to the front.
From the paved seating terrace, there are steps down to a path, beside which is a stone and slate former privy (now a log store) and off which are further stone chipped paths and seating areas with adjacent flower and shrub beds and with a central apple tree. These areas lead to an area of level lawn at the end of the garden, around which are further shrubs and plants, a stone chipped seating area and a large timber Garden Shed
The Garages - Situated about 200 yards walk from the house are a pair of detached Garages with outside parking and they benefit from an electric supply. The two Garages are held on a 139 year lease paying a peppercorn rent and of which there are 124 years unexpired.
Viewing - Strictly and only by prior appointment with Stags' Truro office on[use Contact Agent Button].
Directions - From the Fore Street Shoppers public car park (The Cinema Car Park) walk back to St Nicholas Street and turn right up the hill. Roscrea will be found on the left hand side after about 50 yards.
Services - All mains services connected. Mains gas central heating. Mainly secondary glazed. Broadband available. TV and telephone points.
