4 bedroom detached house

53 Azalea Close is an attractive red brick family home offering light-filled flexible accommodation arranged over two floors. Configured to provide an ideal family and entertaining space maximising the stunning views over neighbouring Napsbury Park and featuring a wealth of wooden flooring throughout, the ground floor accommodation flows from a welcoming reception hall with useful storage and cloakroom. It briefly comprises a spacious sitting room with feature fireplace and two sets of French doors to the terrace, a well-proportioned family room and a generous dining room with front aspect bay. The ground floor accommodation is completed by a spacious kitchen/breakfast room with a range of wall and base units, modern integrated appliances, space for a good-sized table for more informal meals and a door to the side aspect.

On the first floor the property provides a generous front aspect principal bedroom with built-in storage, French doors to a private Juliet balcony and modern en suite shower room, three further well-proportioned bedrooms, all with built-in storage, and a modern family bathroom.

Set in the prestigious gated Napsbury Park development within a listed historic park and garden and having plenty of kerb appeal, the property is approached over a tarmac side driveway providing private parking and giving access to the link-attached double garage. The well-maintained garden is laid mainly to level lawn bordered by well-stocked flowerbeds and features a large wraparound paved terrace with covered seating area, ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining, the whole screened by mature trees.

The historic village of London Colney considered a satellite village of St. Albans given its easily commutable distance to the city centre, offers a good selection of day-to-day amenities including supermarkets, a Post Office, GP surgeries, a library, takeaway restaurants, hairdressers, a retail park containing Sainsbury’s, M & S, Next, Boots, Monsoon and TK Maxx and primary schooling together with regular bus services into St. Albans city centre. The village has plenty for the outdoor enthusiast to enjoy: the property is situated within the Grade II Listed historic parkland of Napsbury Park, which extends to some 75 acres, and open-water fishing in the River Colne from which the village takes its name is close at hand. St. Albans' historic city centre offers a great range of speciality boutiques, independent retailers and major stores together with primary and secondary schooling and extensive leisure and sporting amenities including a golf course.

Communications links are excellent: the North Orbital road, M25 and M1 give easy access to the national motorway network and London airports, Park Street station offers direct links to Watford and on to London Euston and St. Albans City station has regular services to London St. Pancras International in less than 20 minutes.

The area offers a wide range of state schooling including Cunningham Hill Infant and Junior Schools, Beaumont School and Loreto College (all rated Outstanding by Ofsted) as well as a good selection of independent schools including Manor Lodge, St. Columba’s College, St. Albans, St. Albans High School for Girls, Edge Grove and Aldenham.