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House For Sale £425,000
Old Roses, Welholme Avenue, Grimsby, DN32


Description
A handsome double-fronted, detached period house occupying a sought-after position in a mature residential Conservation Area close to People's Park and providing impressive character four bedroomed accommodation with an attached garage and a mature walled garden at the rear.

• Elegant reception area and hallway with feature staircase • Three reception rooms, each with walk-in bay window and feature fireplaces with flame-effect gas fires and a log burning stove. • Stylish fitted kitchen with granite work tops, dishwasher, refrigerator and range cooker. • Stunning orangery of superb size with French doors to the garden, tessellated floor and double doors from the kitchen. • Utility room, study and attached garage of good size with remote control motorised door. • Landing with gallery, ground and first floor ornate bathrooms and first floor additional WC. • Attractive and secluded, sheltered, brick-walled garden with patio and seating areas. • Tall gated front entrance to a parking forecourt and inner gates onto a driveway to the garage. 

Directions and Location From Louth take the A16 road north and continue past Toll Bar onto the Peaks Parkway that leads into the town. At the first traffic lights, turn left onto Weelsby Road and follow the road until Welholme Avenue is found bearing left and right. Turn right here and follow the road past the crossroads until Old Roses is found on the right side.

Grimsby is a main business and retail centre in Lincolnshire and as such has schools and colleges, a comprehensive shopping centre and a variety of sport and leisure facilities. There are strong road links to the country via the A/M180 and the Kirmington Airport is about 14 miles away. 

The Property This attractive character building is thought to date back to the late 1800's and has very substantial brick walls beneath a main pitched roof covered in slates. Heating is by two gas central heating boilers on the ground and first floors and the windows to the sides and rear are mainly uPVC double-glazed whilst the front windows have been retained to preserve the façade.

The ground floor bathroom, kitchen and utility-lobby have electric under-floor heating. The interior combines many unique character features with complementary modern kitchens and bathrooms, sympathetically chosen to blend with the style of the accommodation.  

Accommodation (Approximate room dimensions are shown on the floor plans which are indicative of the room layout and not to specific scale) 

Ground Floor Handsome pillared entrance with ornate mouldings and six panel front door with arched, glazed fanlight over, to an  

Enclosed Porch with black and white ceramic tiled floor, part-tiled walls in dark green with decorative insets and stepped brick moulding to the ceiling over. Fifteen-pane bevelled glass door with glazed fanlight and marble step up into the: - 

Reception Lobby and Entrance Hall Initially having a tessellated floor and then oak flooring to the main hallway with a feature staircase having hardwood spindle balustrade to the first floor. Moulded coving and door architraves, wide moulded four-panelled doors to the reception rooms and a smaller four-panelled door beneath the staircase to the: -  

Bathroom White roll-edge bath with scroll feet and brass mixer tap, having shower fittings; low-level WC and vanity wash hand basin. Metro-style ceramic tiled splashbacks and complementary shower cubicle with sliding glazed doors and ornate shower mixer unit; spotlight-extractor above. Built-in airing cupboard containing the ground floor Brittany 2T gas central heating boiler. Marble tiled floor, ceiling spotlights and arched window. Ornate radiator/towel rail and electric under-floor heating. 

Drawing Room A spacious and impressive room with Louis style fireplace and inset, flame-effect gas fire, polished marble surround and hearth. Coved ceiling and moulded dado rail; large walk-in bay window to the front elevation.  

Sitting Room Also having a Louis style fireplace with polished stone inset and flame-effect gas fire. Intricate, decorative patterned ceiling, coving and picture rail. Large front walk-in bay window. 

Family or Dining Room A spacious room with brick and cast iron fireplace set into a carved timber pillared surround with an inset cast iron log burning stove and black ceramic tiled hearth. Moulded coving and picture rail, ceiling rose and dado rail. Side walk-in square bay window.  

Inner Lobby With doors off to a side porch, having further glazed double doors to outside. Opening from the lobby into the kitchen and further door to the: - 

Study Wall cupboards, shelving and two electricity consumer units with MCB's. 

Kitchen Extensive range of units finished in contrasting cream and shabby-chic grey to include base and wall cupboards, drawer units, illuminated glazed display cabinets and heavy granite work surfaces with upstands. Central island unit with base cupboards granite work surfaces and led plinth lighting. Belfast sink unit in white, wine stores, integrated faced dishwasher and faced refrigerator. Belling Sandringham dual fuel range cooker set in brick surround with heavy hardwood beam and inset cooker hood with lighting above. Pelmet lights over the sink and part-glazed French doors (double-glazed) into the: - 

Orangery A hugely impressive room with a glazed roof having Sanderson blinds, panelled base walls, tessellated floor and two old-fashioned cast iron radiators. Two brick arched alcoves, rear multi-pane French doors and built-in corner cupboard with arched surround to shelves over. Multiple opening windows.  

Utility Room With a limestone-effect tiled floor which extends through from the kitchen and fitted with base units which form a housing with plumbing for a washing machine and space for a dryer adjacent. Part-glazed (double-glazed) door to outside, sloping ceiling with spotlighting and pine connecting door to the garage. 

First Floor Landing with gallery area where the balustrade extends around the stairwell and a feature decorative coloured window over the staircase half landing. Moulded dado panelling and rail, coved ceiling with rose and two light points. Ornate brackets to inner area and door off to: - 

Washroom Containing white low-level WC and bracket wash basin with tiled splashback. Rear window and trap access to roof void. 

Master Bedroom (Rear wing) An elegant and well-proportioned double room with birch-effect laminated floor covering and a large walk-in side bay window. Coved ceiling, double radiator, picture rail and door with step down to: - 

Ensuite Bathroom With Vernon Tutbury white low-level WC, shaped pedestal wash hand basin and a roll-top bath set into a fluted, framed and pillared opening with marbled surround and twin spotlights over. Ceramic tiled shower cubicle with ornate shower mixer unit and extractor spotlight over. White ladder-style radiator/towel rail and boiler cupboard housing the second Baxi gas-fired combination central heating boiler with digital wall programmer. Oak strip-effect flooring, ceiling spotlights, wall mirror with two globe lights, rear window and dado panelled walls; trap access to wing roof void.  

Bedroom 2 (front) A light and airy room with a radiator case, laminated oak-effect floor covering, three windows, deep coving and rose.  

Bedroom 3 (front) Brightly decorated in pink with a coved ceiling and rose. Double radiator. 

Bedroom 4 (front) With coved ceiling and rose. Radiator. 

Bedrooms 2, 3 and 4 all have large windows overlooking the entrance to the property and forecourt. 

Outside At the front of the house a pair of tall, motorised remote-controlled wrought iron gates open onto a spacious parking forecourt with established trees, shrubs and bushes set behind a substantial brick wall surmounted by railings. Matching wrought-iron pedestrian gate. There is pedestrian access through to the garden around the right side of the house through a screen door with combination security lock. Screen double gates on the opposite side open onto an inner driveway with space for further parking and storage whilst giving access to the: - 

Attached Garage With remote control, motorised roller door, strip lighting, power points and separate consumer unit. Connecting door to the utility room.  

Rear Garden Superb mature garden to the rear which is brick-walled on all three sides and laid to lawn surrounded by established ornamental trees, shrubs and bushes. Kitchen garden to the far side of the lawn and attractive secluded seating and patio areas close to the orangery and rear wing of the house with pathway extending around towards the front of the house. Streetlamp style outside lights and timber garden shed. 

Viewing: Strictly by prior appointment with the selling agent . 

General Information The particulars of this property are intended to give a fair and substantially correct overall description for the guidance of intending purchasers. No responsibility is to be assumed for individual items. No appliances have been tested. Fixtures, fittings, carpets and curtains are excluded unless otherwise stated. Plans/Maps are not to specific scale, are based on information supplied and subject to verification by a solicitor at sale stage. We are advised that the property is connected to mains gas, water, electricity and drainage but no utility searches have been carried out to confirm at this stage. The property is in Council Tax band F. 

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