House For Sale £1,850,000
Hall Place Gardens, St. Albans AL1

An elegant, detached Arts & Crafts family home with five bedrooms and three reception rooms situated in a highly sought-after central location within easy reach of the mainline station and city centre.

Summary

Storm porch | Entrance-hall | Cloak room | Sitting room | Family room | Kitchen/dining room | Utility/laundry/secondary kitchen | Cellar | Five bedrooms | Family bathroom | Dressing room | Gardens | Tenure Freehold | EPC rating D | Council tax band G £3,425.85 p.a.

The Property

8 Hall Place Gardens is an elegant, detached Arts & Crafts family home, designed by architect Percival Blow, situated in a highly desirable central conservation area location within easy reach of the mainline station, city centre, well regarded schools and extensive local amenities.

There is beautifully presented and spacious accommodation over three main floors, as well a cellar. The house combines many delightful period features, typical of the finer properties of the era, with well-considered contemporary décor and a spectacular extended modern kitchen/dining room with a generous Crittal style glazed rear elevation over-looking the garden.

On the ground floor a storm porch leads to an impressive reception entrance hall, with a chequer tiled floor, and stained glass to the front door and window, it leads to the stairs to the first and second floors, has an area to one side, currently housing a piano, and on the other side there is an area leading to the cloak room, space for coats and shoes, and a hatch leading to the cellar.

The main living accommodation leads from the entrance hall, at the front of the house is a formal bay-fronted sitting room with a log burner, while to the rear of the house is an impressive kitchen/dining room, leading to the garden at the rear, and to one side a cosy family room. This in turn leads to a generous laundry/utility, formerly the kitchen it still provides secondary kitchen facilities, and there is a door to the side also leading to the garden.

To the first floor are three comfortable double bedrooms, the principal bedroom at the rear of the house has an adjacent dressing room/cot room, accessed from both the landing and the main bedroom, it offers scope for conversion into an en-suite shower room. The third bedroom on this floor has French windows to a balcony overlooking the rear garden, while a large family bathroom, stylishly appointed with a separate bath and walk in shower, completes the picture to this floor.

Finally, the second floor offers two further generous double bedrooms, one currently configured as a home office, along with eaves storage.

Outside

To the front, the house sits behind a handsome period facade, with brick built and pebble dashed elevations and leaded windows beneath a tile hung roof. There is a town house style garden with fenced boundaries, two gated entrances, mature privet hedges and an established wisteria. Further gated access to both sides of the house lead to the rear garden. It is laid mainly to lawn, with a paved terrace, timber shed, well stocked planted beds and boundaries and enjoys a high degree of privacy and a mature leafy outlook.

Location

A highly desirable central conservation area location within easy reach of the mainline station, city centre, well regarded schools, and extensive local amenities. Clarence Park and Bernard’s Heath are both close by.

General

Tenure – Freehold

Services – Main drainage, water, gas and electricity

EPC rating – D

Council tax band - G £3,425.85 p.a.