Impressive character family home in a prime location.



Description

23 Shepherds Road is an excellent detached home of great character and with potential to create a fabulous family home in a highly sought after location. The house is wonderfully bright and light and offers scope to remodel and extend subject to the usual consents.

On entering the house from the porch, it opens into a welcoming reception hall with a window seat. The lovely sitting room has an attractive bay window overlooking the gardens and features a fireplace plus interconnecting doors to the characterful part panelled walled dining room with French doors to the garden. The hall has two good storage cupboards and a cloakroom and at the end of the hall is the kitchen/ breakfast room that also overlooks the garden. The kitchen is fitted with a range of built-in units and integrated appliances include hob, oven, microwave and dishwasher. To the rear of the breakfast area is a useful boot room and utility room. To the front is a TV room with a door out to the garden.

Stairs rise from the hall to a split landing with bedroom five to the left and then onto the main landing where there are two useful storage cupboards and four double bedrooms, two with vanity basins and built-in wardrobes. There is a family bathroom and separate WC.

Outside
The house is set back from the road behind laurel hedging and has a detached double garage with parking in front for two cars. Above the garage is a great studio/games room which overlooks the garden. The front garden has lawn and stocked borders plus a crazy paved path to the front door and access to the rear garden.

The rear garden is an undoubted feature of this lovely home and immediately to the rear of the house is a lovely mature wisteria and a terrace ideal for entertaining and this leads to lawn and beautiful stocked borders and mature hedging. To the rear of the garden is a tucked away seating area and garden shed. The gardens offer great peace and tranquility to this lovely home. The overall plot is about 0.25 acres.

Location

Shepherds Road is a highly sought after location in the same road as Watford Boys Grammar School and also the wonderful Cassiobury Park with its 190 acre space of woodland, recreational facilities and popular café.

Watford town centre offers excellent shopping plus Cine World and a multitude of restaurants, bars and cafés.

Watford Metropolitan Line offers a service to Baker Street and the City plus Watford Junction provides the main line to Euston and Birmingham.

There is an excellent choice of schooling including Cassiobury Infant and Nursery School, Cassiobury Junior School and Nascot Wood Infant and Junior school together with both Grammar schools for boys and girls.

Private schools include: Boys - Merchant Taylors, Northwood (approx 3.7 miles) and Haberdashers' Aske's, Elstree (approx 8.2 miles). Girls - Haberdashers' Aske's, Elstree (approx 8.2 miles), St Helen's, Northwood (approx. 4.4 miles), Northwood College, Northwood (approx 5.9 miles) which are all served by the Metropolitan Line.

The M25 Junction 19 is approximately a three mile drive and provides connections to the general motorway network.

Square Footage: 2,310 sq ft


Acreage: 0.25 Acres

Directions

From Rickmansworth station, at the roundabout take the second exit onto Park Road A412 and follow the road up Scots Hill. At the next roundabout take the third exit onto the Watford Road and continue along the road for about a mile and a half and then at the next roundabout take the first exit onto the Rickmansworth Road and follow for about half a mile. Just after Watford Boys Grammar School take the immediate left turn into Shepherds Road and the house can be found on the right.