Description
A fantastic, refurbished and beautifully presented, three bedroom period home located on this renowned road in the heart of this fashionable suburb.
Planning Approval is granted for a kitchen extension with a utility room (Leicester City Council Planning, Application No: 20221262). The loft is thought suitable for conversion and we are informed that this would fall under permitted development.
Location - South Knighton is located approximately two miles south of the city centre, providing excellent access to the professional quarters and mainline railway station. Local facilities can be found at the nearby Allandale Road/Francis Street shopping parades, and Queens Road in neighbouring Clarendon Park, all offering a good range of boutiques, bars and restaurants. Excellent state and private schooling is within easy reach, and an abundance of recreational facilities including tennis and golf.
Accommodation - An arched brick porch with a solid wood front door leads into the entrance hall with stripped floorboards and a picture rail, housing the wooden staircase to the first floor with a useful understairs storage cupboard beneath. A ground floor cloakroom with a window to the side provides a two piece suite. The breakfast kitchen is simply stunning; the breakfast area has a built-in floor to ceiling utility cupboard housing the Worcester Bosch wall mounted boiler and providing plumbing for a washing machine and tumble dryer, a feature pendant light, a window to the rear and solid oak flooring continuing through to the kitchen area, with a vaulted ceiling with four Velux windows, inset ceiling spotlights and boasts an excellent range of contemporary, urban gloss eye and base level units with soft-closing drawers and Corian preparation surfaces, an undermounted sink with mixer tap and window over, integrated Hotpoint dishwasher, space for a range style cooker, pale blue glass splashback and stainless steel extractor unit, space for a fridge-freezer, and aluminium framed bi-folding doors leading onto the rear garden. The sitting room has an original bay window to the front, an inset cast iron log burner set into the chimneybreast recess on a slate hearth, picture rail and stripped floorboards, both continuing open plan into to the dining room, with a further chimneybreast recess with slate hearth and wood framed double glazed French doors leading onto the rear garden.
To the first floor is a galleried landing with a window to the side, painted floorboards and a picture rail. The master bedroom has a picture rail, painted floorboards and a wood framed double glazed window to the front. Bedroom two is also a double, with a picture rail, painted floorboards and a window to the rear. Bedroom three has a window to the rear. The family bathroom has a three piece suite comprising a panelled bath with glazed shower screen and shower over with rainfall and personal shower heads, tiled splashback with a recessed shelf, an enclosed WC and a wash hand basin with cupboard under, heated chrome towel rail, tiled flooring with underfloor heating, inset spotlights and a wooden window to the front.
Outside - The property has a paved, walled frontage with a personal gate. Side access leads to deep mature rear gardens, mainly laid to lawn with gravelled areas, fully fenced and hedged borders. There is a wooden shed, three brick built outhouses and a further wooden office/store which is fully insulated with SIP's and provides ample storage space, the office area having a built-in desk, a wall mounted radiator and bi-fold doors to the front elevation.
Tenure & Council Tax - Tenure: Freehold
Local Authority: Leicester City Council
Tax Band: C
Services - Utility Services: Offered to the market with all mains services and gas-fired central heating.
Broadband delivered to the property: Fibre, cable and mobile 4G and 5G broadband.
Glazing: Wooden cased double glazed windows to the first floor, ground floor only to the rear.
Planning - Planning Permission: Proposed single storey extension to the rear of the dwelling. More information can be found on the Leicester city planning website : Application No 20221262).
Planning Issues: Extension application initially refused, re-visited with amended design and since approved.
Satnav Information - The property's postcode is LE2 3LS, and the house number 47.
