Location

Queen's Park is one of the most desirable residential neighbourhoods in Chester.

The area offers quality housing, a peaceful attractive setting and a strong local community, and is particularly attractive to those wanting close proximity to good state schools, Overleigh St Mary's Primary and three secondaries - Queens's Park High, Catholic High and Chester International. In the private sector, King's and Queen's, both all-age, are readily accessed.

Picturesque Handbridge has a variety of independent shops including a butcher, greengrocer, florist, delicatessen and a coffee shop. Chester city centre, with its premium retail, restaurant and cultural destinations is only a short and pleasant walk over the Old Dee Bridge or the historic Queen's Park suspension bridge.

The Cathedral city of Chester is home to the oldest race course in the country, which provides an extensive programme of horse racing and other events including polo.

There is a variety of other leisure amenities, including first-class golfing, tennis and other recreational sports. Opportunities for walking, boating and picnicking are immediately to hand with easy access to the Meadows.

Chester has direct access to the motorway network, linking to Manchester, Liverpool and their airports and to the North Wales coast. There is a direct and frequent rail service to London Euston (from 2 hours).

Description

Sitting in a wonderful position, overlooking the meadows, the property was formerly a modest bungalow which was extended by the current owners in 2013 to create a two storey rear extension providing an open-plan kitchen dining room, conservatory, sitting room and lower ground floor principal bedroom with en suite shower room. The front view of the house from Elizabeth Crescent belies the quality and scale of the property, as the living accommodation has been designed to orientate towards the wonderful views across the Meadows giving a real indoor, outdoor feel and an opportunity to enjoy nature and perhaps a view of herons which are regularly seen on the meadows.

The drive leads to integral garage with additional driveway parking space. The front door opens into a hallway leading into the main house.   To the rear of the house is a spacious sitting room which has a real wow factor with a glass apex taking maximum advantage of the lovely views right across the river to the boat club at Sandy Lane. Steps lead back down to the hallway which gives access to the kitchen/dining room. This is a wonderfully bright and sociable space with views to one side to the garden and at the rear across the meadows. The kitchen is very well equipped with an excellent range of wall and base units, storage drawers, some integrated appliances to include a low-noise extractor fan and a peninsula separating the kitchen from the dining area. Glass French doors open from the dining area into the impressive conservatory which extends the entertaining space and again showcases the lovely views. The area from the kitchen through to the conservatory is tiled.

Stairs from the hallway lead down to the principal bedroom which has a spacious en suite shower room and dressing area with fitted wardrobes. The view from this room is out to the lower garden and it is a lovely, very private aspect.
There are three further bedrooms on the ground floor (one en suite) and all have built-in storage. There is also a family bathroom on the ground floor.

An aluminium ladder gives access to the loft, which is part-boarded for storage."

A utility room completes the accommodation on the ground floor and this room has plumbing for a washing machine and dryer.

Back out to the hallway at the rear there is access into the garage and a door leading out to the gardens.
The owners are keen gardeners and the gardens are a lovely feature of the property. Wrapping around the house the gardens are arranged with hard and soft landscaping, well stocked beds and borders, specimen trees, shrubs and perennials, fruit trees and plants and a really pretty wild flower area with wood anemones and English bluebells. The lower garden is lawned with a mature pond and feels very private and this area gives access to a fantastic storage area which is located under the lower ground floor. Steps lead up to a side garden and then round to a well cultivated kitchen garden.

The property enjoys well-insulated walls, windows, ceilings and floors, leading to an Energy Performance rating of B. The annual income from the solar panels is, we understand, about £2,800.