Positioned on a magnificent plot, this elegant and detached Edwardian family home built in 1912, has had just three owners in its lifetime and has been significantly extended by the present owners, now providing a superb family home.

Location - Mountsorrel is located approximately eight miles north of Leicester city centre, providing good access via the A6, A46 and M1 motorway networks. The village offers a wide range of amenities including shopping, pubs, restaurants (one with a Michelin star) and a primary school, with further schooling at nearby Rothley and Quorn. The location is within beautiful and leafy Charnwood, with Bradgate Park virtually on the doorstep, popular for its historic interest and scenic beauty.

Accommodation - The property is entered via what is believed to be the original, substantial, pine front door with a decorative stained and leaded porthole inset window, leading into an entrance hall with picture rail, black and white tiled flooring. The family room has ceiling coving, picture rail, two windows to the front and side elevations, and a wooden fireplace surround with an inset gas living flame effect fire, tiled hearth and back. The dining room has a bay window to the side, picture rail, a timber fireplace surround with decorative tiled inserts and a cast iron grate, an understairs storage cupboard and further original built-in cupboards and drawers. The spacious sitting room has two windows to the front elevation, ceiling coving, picture rail, a wooden fireplace surround with an inset gas living flame effect fire with marble hearth and back, French doors leading onto the terrace and further double doors with windows either side leading into the conservatory, which is unoverlooked, built in uPVC and high performance glazing with a full glass roof, tiled flooring and double doors leading onto the garden.

An inner hall leads to a pantry with fitted shelves, a cold slab and a window to the side. The stunning kitchen boasts a good range of cream eye and base level units and drawers, ample preparation surfaces, a stainless steel sink with mixer tap over, a Neff double oven with a combination micro-oven over, an integrated fridge and dishwasher and a window to the side. An inner lobby/utility area has fitted cupboards and leads to a cloakroom (also accessed from the garden) with a window to the rear with a white two piece suite comprising a low flush WC and pedestal wash hand basin. A laundry room with a window and two doors to the sides provides eye and base level units, a stainless steel sink, plumbing for an automatic washing machine and space for a dryer.

The first floor landing has a window to the side. The master bedroom has built-in cupboards, picture rail, windows to the front and rear, a dressing room with picture rail and a window to the front and an en-suite with a white three piece suite comprising a low flush WC, pedestal wash hand basin and corner shower cubicle with fixed and flexible shower heads, chrome heated towel rail and a window to the rear. Bedroom two has a cast iron fireplace, picture rail, a pedestal wash hand basin, built-in wardrobes and windows to the front and side. Bedroom three has a pine fireplace surround with a cast iron grate, picture rail and a window to the rear. The box room/study has a window to the side, a fitted desk and shelving. The family bathroom has a three piece suite comprising a pedestal wash hand basin, corner bath and a separate shower enclosure, built-in airing cupboard housing a Worcester combination boiler, heated towel rail and a window to the side. A separate WC with a window to the side provides a low flush suite.

Outside - To the front of the property are planted gardens behind walled and hedged boundaries with a gravelled side driveway providing off street car standing for three vehicles and access to the large tandem garage, with three windows and a door to the garden (thought suitable for conversion to additional ground floor accommodation, subject to the necessary planning consents). To the rear of the property are beautifully maintained, deep, unoverlooked south-facing gardens with large paved patio areas and sweeping shaped lawns with mature trees and shrubs, raised vegetable beds and a timber shed.

Tenure & Council Tax - Tenure: Freehold
Local Authority: Charnwood Borough Council
Tax Band: E

Satnav Information : - 23, LE12 7HD