Guide Price £1,495,000 Subject to Contract
5 Bedrooms
2 Receptions
A delightful family home offering a welcoming and warm feel with a galleried entrance hall, 2 spacious reception rooms and kitchen/breakfast room. There are 4 double bedrooms to the 1st floor and spacious family bathroom with a principal bedroom suite to the 2nd floor, with a landscaped rear garden.
Location
Dickerage Road is located in an enviable location close to a variety of convenience stores from Sainsburys opposite Norbiton train station to the famous Jarvis fishmonger and Jeffries butcher amongst many other convenience stores and a sought after wine merchant, along with several restaurants catering for various cuisines.
Norbiton station is within easy walking distance and provides frequent services to London Waterloo. The 57 bus route, with bus stops on either side of Coombe Lane West at the end of Dickerage Road, offers a 24 hour route to Wimbledon and as far as Tooting to Kingston town centre. A lifeline for the adults for work purposes and for school children to the Town Centre and schools. Wimbledon Station offers both over ground links into London and the District Line as an underground link. The A3 trunk road offering fast access to Central London and both Gatwick and Heathrow airports via the M25 motorway and is accessible at the end of Coombe Lane West on the boundary of the bridge which heads into Wimbledon.
The immediate area offers a wide range of recreational facilities including three golf courses, tennis and squash clubs. Theatres at Richmond, Kingston and Wimbledon are also popular alternatives to the West End together with an excellent choice of restaurants.
The property is also within walking distance to Ladderstile Gate providing access to Richmond Park; an area of outstanding beauty and provides a picturesque setting in which to picnic, go horse riding, jogging or just take a leisurely walk through the ‘Snicket’ at the end of Orchard Rise which leads into The Drive. From there, onto George Road and then up Warren Road across to Kingston Hill and Ladderstile Ride. This gate is a pedestrian gate and vehicular access is via the Kingston Gate.
Holy Cross Prep, Rokeby School and Marymount International are within easy walking distance along George Road and Coombe Hill Infants and Juniors within a short walk away along Coombe Lane West. There are many other schools for all ages, both private and state within easy reach and a variety of International schools such as the German School in Petersham and the Norwegian School in Wimbledon.
The Property
Built circa 1904, the property is approached off Dickerage Road to a block-paved forecourt with a circular Granite paved area giving off-street parking for potentially another car, with a Pod Point car charger already installed. The panelled painted door, with a glazed fan light, opens into a very spacious entrance hall offering Cherry wood-strip flooring, a ceiling height of approximately 2.6 metres and a delightful balustraded gallery.
The guest cloakroom/utility houses the Worcester gas fired boiler in a cupboard, a low level WC, wash hand basin and space for a washing machine and tumble dryer below a Junkers solid worktop with built-in cupboards.
The delightful front dining room features custom, built-in cupboards to both side of the recesses of the marble fireplace, with a Granite surround and base and good depth into the semi-circular bay window. The rear reception room also offers a fireplace surround with a wide arch leading to a bay-like area with French doors to the rear, wood-effect ceramic tiled terrace. The property features encased radiators to all the ground floor and Cherry wood flooring to the rear lounge.
From the hall is a side door with obscure glass and under-stairs cupboard. The kitchen offers a wealth of lacquered wall and base units with a glass splash back with integrated appliances and a composite worktop with counter top lighting and back light wall units. The kitchen features an open arch overlooking the spacious dining area with a pitched roof with Velux window and views of the rear garden and French door to the terrace.
The easy rising staircase from the hall, with a large window to the half landing, leads to a spacious landing giving access to four double bedrooms, and a well-appointed family bathroom, with marble flooring and ceramic tiles to the walls, a separate bath with a retractable shower, a wet shower, wash hand basin inset into a vanity unit, low level WC, underfloor heating and finally a built-in cupboard housing the hot water cylinder and two pressure pumps.
The stairs continue to the second floor hosting the principal bedroom which spans across the whole floor with an en suite bathroom which benefits from natural day light and boasts a mosaic-tiled bath, corner shower cubicle, low level WC and wash hand basin in a vanity unit. The main bedroom also features a wall of built-in cupboards, with further access to eaves storage to the rear of one of the cupboards, and French doors to the Juliet balcony, facing the rear garden. The ceiling height to the main part of the bedroom is 2.41 metres with 2.54 metres to the first floor. The two Velux windows to the front also draw light to the other end of the bedroom.
Outside
The professionally designed and landscaped secluded West-facing rear garden by Leaf and Stone, benefits from a ceramic-tiled terrace that spans the rear width of the house with a side gate to the shared driveway. Matching ceramic stepping tiles lead to the garage, which has a pitched room, and traditional wooden doors, ideal for conversion into a games room/study/gym, and rear summerhouse with an additional matching ceramic-tiled terrace bordered by an array of bushes, perennials and trees. The garden summer house also benefits from an armoured cable to offer sufficient power supply.
The property is offered in excellent order throughout and can only be appreciated by an early viewing.