PROPERTY DESCRIPTION Martin&Co are pleased to welcome this SPACIOUS Three-Bed Semi-Detached House based in a quiet residential road in Rose Hill.

The home consists of double aspect reception room, hallway, under stairs cupboard, dining room, kitchen, utility room, bathroom and two large double bedrooms and one reasonable sized single with large built in mirrored wardrobes.

The property also benefits from a large driveway which has space for Three/Four vehicles. The garden to the rear is approximately 20/30ft and is South West facing.

The home itself is of (NON-STANDARD CONSTRUCTION) made from steel supports and external concrete panels. These homes where built in the 1950's as a solution to the housing crisis after the war. In total 300,000 of them were built in the UK and now over 150,000 remain. Although we are aware that several of these houses have been purchased with mortgages over the last two years, it is advised to seek professional advise as they can be challenging to obtain. Martin & Co do have an in house specialist advisor if you should need to talk to them, please notify one of our negotiators.

In there original from, the properties where built on a steel frame with internal chip board walls, corrugated cardboard insulation with cement panels and plastic external fascia boards. Most of which where council owned. Over the years the properties where privately purchased, however, in the 1980s if the home was still owned by the council the plastic fascia's where removed due to the presence of asbestos (no longer the case with this house in any form) and the concrete panels themselves where then pebble dashed to protect the concrete from carbonisation. Please note, that this pebble dash can either be painted, or even rendered to provide the home with a much more modern finish.

The owner, when they purchased the house, removed all the internal chip board walls, cardboard insulation and re-insulated the cavities and put 3inch plasterboard's and screed over to provide a total finish to all the internal walls. By far one of the largest jobs to be done in these houses. From here, they also knocked together the upstairs toilet and bathroom (quite small and cramped individually) and brought them together and completely remodelled the bathroom with metro tiling, flooring, skirting, heated handrail and new sink and double length shower basin.

They also trimmed back the garden and replaced both the front and rear fencing with steel footed fence posts to allow for easy replacements of panels in years to come. They also, refloored and replaced all of the lamp and plug sockets in each room as well as new carpets upstairs, composite wood flooring in the hallway, dining room and main reception. In addition, they redecorated the kitchen and utility room. Any buyer will be pleased to know that there is also plenty of storage in the way of an external shed, under stairs cupboard and loft space.

These houses have myriad different ways in which they can be improved and changed. If you look around the surrounding road you will see homes that have been changed and improved in many different ways over the years and have sold for various different prices over the last two.

A couple of things to bare in mind with this property prior to viewing, the price has been set accordingly as some improvements are needed to finish it off to a very modern standard. The property still has single glazing and has electric heating as the owner had planned to install double glazing and put in a gas boiler. Both of which have been quoted if you wish to enquire for more information.

Please note that this property is owned by the mother of one of the contractors of Martin & Co Oxford.
 

AREA DESCRIPTION Nowell Road is a quite residential road in Rose Hill. At the end of Nowell Road, there are a bunch of public owned allotments that you can join if you so wish. South of here, you can find a cut through road that will take you down into Iffley village where you can find a route down to the river, there is a lovely pub here called the Isis Farm House.

The road itself has plenty of on road parking and in addition to the 3/4 spaces that you have on the driveway. Two roads up from the house there is a footbridge that takes you over to Sainsburys that is only a ten minute walk away. This also connects into Blackbird Leys if you need to get to the science park.

When you exit Rose Hill, turn right onto the ring road and the roundabout here gives you quick access to Headington or up to North Oxford.

Just one minute walk from the house there is a bus stop that has the number 3 bus which runs frequently during the day into town, at the bottom of rose hill you can also find the 3A bus which takes you into the oxford science park.

On the oval just a few minutes from the house you can find two small general shops and then on the main rose hill parade you will find a co-op and many other small shops, such as a pharmacy and other restaurants.

Just a 5 minute walk from the house you can find the rose hill community centre which is home to a gym, various classes, next door to a day care and primary school and has a playing field and park to the rear.

Overall a lovely place to be with everything on your doorstep.