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1 bedroom apartment
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Leasehold
- A 1980s studio style retirement apartment
- Third floor
- One bedroom
- One bathroom
- One reception room
- Convenient location outside the city walls
- EPC rating C
Having the feel of a rooftop apartment, this particular flat has an appeal all of its own and is limited to occupiers of 60 years and above, being part of the well-known Homedee House retirement complex, which was originally built by McCarthy and Stone in the 1980s and comprises 55 apartments arranged over four floors, served by a lift along with a communal residence lounge, laundry room, guest suite, 24 hour alarm system, and part time manager. The position of Homedee House is particularly convenient being just outside the city walls and within walking distance of the wide array of amenities and facilities within and around this historic city. There are also excellent bus and rail services nearby, as well as fast and efficient connections to the wider north west road communications network. The apartment itself has double-glazed windows, an electric storage heater, an electric hot water heating system, connections to mains electricity, mains water, and mains drainage, a conservation area situation, skyline views to the south, and the following accommodation which is described in detail below.
Rooms
Communal Entrance Hall
With communal stairs and lift leading to the third floor communal landing and the private accommodation of the specific apartment as follows.
Private Entrance Hall 1.68m x 0.91m (5' 6" x 3' 0")
With inner doorways leading to the sitting/dining/bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and airing cupboard with slatted shelving, electricity meter, and insulated hot water cylinder with electric immersion heater.
Sitting/Dining/Bedroom 4.1m x 3.76m (13' 5" x 12' 4")
With far-reaching skyline views to the south, television point, telephone point, warden call button, wall lights, fitted bookcases, built-in wardrobe/storage cupboard, electric storage heater, and inner throughway leading to the kitchen.
Kitchen 2.82m x 1.47m (9' 3" x 4' 10")
With timber trimmed range of wall units, floor cupboards, and drawers, with work surfaces and tile splashbacks, stainless steel single drainer sink unit, skyline views to the south, and points and space for an electric cooker and refrigerator.
Bathroom 2.06m x 1.68m (6' 9" x 5' 6")
With coloured suite having chromium fittings comprising panelled bath, cabinet wash hand basin, WC, wall-mounted electric heater, tiled walls, mirrored medicine cabinet, and fan.
Tenure
The property is of leasehold tenure being subject to and having the benefit of a 99 year lease dating from 1st September 1984, this lease being subject to a variable annual ground rent, payable half yearly in advance and currently set at £177.62. This lease is also subject to a variable annual service charge in respect of items of communal expense and maintenance, this also being payable half yearly in advance and currently set at £1010.70. This therefore equates to an annual ground rent figure currently of £355.24, and an annual service charge figure currently £2021.40.
Directions
On foot from the agents offices, proceed up Lower Bridge Street across the crossroads and onto Bridge Street, continuing to the cross at the centre of the city. Bear right at this point and then left onto Northgate Street and continue past the town hall on the left hand side and the cathedral on the right, as the road continues as Upper Northgate Street. Continue for a further distance, turning left at the traffic lights into Canal Street and after several hundred yards Homedee House will be observed on the right hand side on the junction of Canal Street and Garden Lane.
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