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2 bedroom retirement property

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Chain-free
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Retirement property
2 bed
1 bath
EPC rating: B*
678 sq ft / 63 sq m

Key information

Tenure: Leasehold
Ground rent: £335 per annum | review period: unconfirmed
Service charge: £3,500 per annum
Council tax, if payable: Band D
Broadband: Super-fast 80Mbps *
Mobile signal: 
EE O2 Three Vodafone
Water: Ask agent
Heating: Ask agent
Electricity: Ask agent
Sewerage: Ask agent
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Property description & features

  • Tenure: Leasehold
  • Ground floor over 60's RETIREMENT DEVELOPMENT WITH NO CHAIN
  • GROUND FLOOR with direct access to your PRIVATE PATIO
  • 24-hour care line facility, communal residents' lounge, part-time house manager
  • Convenient town centre location CLOSE TO SHOPS and the BUS STOP
  • Close to the beach
  • Presented very nicely throughout
  • Bright and airy
  • ONSITE PARKING
Located within the popular over 60's town centre retirement development, The Farthings, is a bright and airy, nicely presented, two bedroom ground floor apartment with direct access to it's own patio.

The Farthings is situated in a prime location, just a stroll away from the high street with its shops, bus stop, cafes and restaurants, and is also within a short walk of the doctor's surgery, the clifftop and the gorgeous beaches.

Entrance via the main communal entrance hall where you have lift or stairs to 1st and 2nd floor, as well as access to the residents lounge.

This particular apartment can be located on the ground floor on the east side. Private front door into entrance hall. Airing cupboard and further storage cupboard.

The sitting room/diner has a door out to the private patio. Double doors into the kitchen.

The modern kitchen has a range of eye and base level units with cupboards and drawers, an inset sink and drainer unit, space for a washing machine, integrated oven, microwave, electric hob with extractor hood, and an integrated fridge freezer.

There are two good size bedrooms one of which has built in wardrobes.

The modernised shower room comprises a shower cubicle, a WC, and a wash hand basin in vanity unit. Heated towel rail and tiled walls.

Communal Facilities
At ground floor level is a communal residents lounge together with a kitchen facility and toilet. The lounge extends onto a paved patio area, available for the use of the residents and their guests if required.

Outside
Visitors and casual parking facilities are located within the grounds and reached by a block-paved driveway.

The Farthings is set in communal landscaped gardens and grounds to both the front and rear of the development and incorporating areas of lawn, illuminated pathways and mature shrub beds and hedging. Clothes drying area.

Tenure & Maintenance
We understand the property is Leasehold with the remainder of approx. 125 year lease from 1991.

We understand a Maintenance/ Service Charge is payable and amounts to approx. £3000.00 per annum. This year is higher at approx. £3500.00 allowing for some additional works taking place.

We understand a ground rent is payable and equates to approx. £335.00 per annum.

Council tax band D.

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