Verulam Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

£1,350,000

Guide price

Storm porch

Reception hall

Sitting room

Study/music room

Kitchen/dining room

Utility room

Cloakroom

4 Bedrooms

Dressing room

2 Bathrooms

W.C.

Garden

2 Bedroom barn annexe

The property

28 Verulam Road is a sensitively modernised

Victorian family home offering light-filled

accommodation arranged over two floors, with retained features including sash windows, high ceilings and a wealth of wooden flooring

throughout. There is also a beautifully renovated 2 bed annexe in the garden.

The ground floor accommodation flows from a

welcoming entrance hall and briefly comprises

a spacious sitting room with feature cast iron

open fireplace and a door to the side driveway,

a large study/music room with a bay window,

parquet flooring and feature open fireplace and an extensive kitchen/dining room with a large sky lantern. The kitchen presents a range of contemporary wall and base units including

a large central island with breakfast bar and

modern integrated appliances while the dining

area has bi-fold doors to the terrace. A useful

neighbouring fitted utility room with Belfast sink

and en suite cloakroom completes the ground

floor.

On the first floor the property offers a spacious

principal bedroom with feature bay window and a door to a neighbouring dressing room, also accessible from the landing and suitable for use as an additional bedroom if required. There are two further well-proportioned bedrooms, a modern family bathroom and separate neighbouring W.C. and a contemporary family shower room.

Location

Hitchin is a charming mediaeval market

town with a market square, parish church, thriving High Street and comprehensive range of shopping and leisure facilities including regular markets, restaurants, public houses, coffee shops, two theatres and numerous independent shops. Good sporting facilities include a swimming pool and football, rugby, cricket, swimming, cycling and running clubs.

Communications links from the property are

excellent, with the nearby A1(M) and M1 giving

access to the national motorway network, central London and both Luton and Heathrow airports and nearby Hitchin station offering trains to central London in around half an hour. More extensive amenities are available in nearby Harpenden, Welwyn Garden City and St. Albans.

The area offers a good range of state primary

and secondary schooling including St. Andrew's

C of E VA Primary School and Hitchin Boys' and

Girls' Schools (all rated Outstanding by Ofsted)

together with a wide selection of independent

schools including Kingshott, St. Christopher,

St. Francis' College, Orchard, Esland, Oakwood

Primary, Sherrardswood, The King's, St. Hilda's

and Aldwickbury.

Outside

Set behind mature hedging and having plenty

of kerb appeal, the property is approached

through a pedestrian gate over a lowmaintenance

gravelled front garden with a feature tiled path leading to the front door and through high double wooden gates over a tarmac side driveway providing private parking.

The enclosed rear garden is laid to level lawn

bordered by raised flower and shrub beds and

features an extensive split-level wraparound decked and paved terrace off the kitchen/dining

room, ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining.

This also gives access to the detached barn

annexe, comprising a 30 ft. open plan kitchen/

sitting room, two first floor vaulted double

bedrooms and a contemporary shower room.