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3 bedroom terraced house
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
A beautifully presented character home with three double bedrooms and a south westerly private rear garden with side access. Benefitting from a side-return extension creating a kitchen dining room with two further reception rooms. A level walk into the town centre and well located for the station, Mill Meadows and its playground and the river as well as the town centre.
A wrought iron gate opens to a traditional Victorian diamond pattern path, which leads to the part-glazed front door with an original ornate decorative surround.
The hallway has a high ceiling and original features including a ceiling rose and cornicing. Straight ahead there are stairs to the first floor with storage under and exposed wooden floorboards.
The sitting room has a bay window to the front with plantation shutters. The focal-point is an attractive Victorian style cast-iron fireplace housing an electric fire with decorative tiled slips and a polished pine surround with mantelpiece. Exposed wooden floorboards.
There are double doors to the family room with a ceiling rose, cornicing, exposed wooden floorboards, a door to the hallway and glazed double doors opening into the kitchen dining room.
The kitchen has a side return extension creating a light and bright dining area having the benefit of south-facing skylight windows. The kitchen, which was refitted in 2016, has a good range of contemporary wall and base units with additional pan drawers and polished wood work surfaces over with a Belfast sink. Integrated appliances include a fridge freezer and dishwasher, an electric oven and microwave with a gas hob with an extractor fan over. A beautiful stained-glass door opens back into the hallway. To the rear of the kitchen there is a cloakroom and there are French doors opening into the private rear garden.
The first floor landing has a work-space under the stairs to the second floor
Bedroom 1 has a front aspect with a pretty cast-iron fireplace, a fitted wardrobe and exposed floorboards.
Bedroom 2 has a rear aspect with exposed floorboards.
The family shower room has fully tiled walls, a walk in shower with glass screens, a fixed and hand held shower head, a vanity wash hand basin, a w.c., and a window with a fitted blind.
Stairs lead to the second floor
Bedroom 3 has two skylight windows to the rear and eaves storage.
Outside
The southwest-facing private rear garden is child and pet friendly being mainly laid to lawn and enclosed by brick walls. From the kitchen there is an extensive paved patio with close-board fencing to one side. A railway sleeper path and rose arch leads to the lawn with mature shrub borders. At the end of the garden there is a second patio area with trellis screen separating the garden from the vegetable garden. There are two timber sheds. There is a pedestrian gate opening to the side passage leading to the front of the house.
Living on Reading Road
134 Reading Road is situated just a short level walk from Henley town centre, the railway station and River Thames.
The Three Horseshoes Pub - a popular ‘local’ with an attractive outdoor space, and rave reviews for its food on TripAdvisor. Further down the road is the petrol filling station, which acts as a useful convenience store and hosts both a Subway and a Greggs bakery concession, and the ever popular Smarts Fish Bar is only a few minutes walk away.
Henley has a Waitrose supermarket and a host of independent shops and boutiques, a 3 screen cinema and an historic theatre. Further out of town towards Reading is the Tesco superstore.
The commuter is well provided for with the M4/M40 giving access to London, Heathrow, West Country and Midlands. Henley Station has links with London Paddington (via Twyford Crossrail / Elizabeth Line) 55 minutes. There are regular bus services to Reading and High Wycombe with bus stops on the Reading Road.
Reading - 8 miles; Maidenhead M4 Junction 8/9 - 10 miles;
Stokenchurch M40 Junction 5 - 13 miles;
London Heathrow - 25 miles;
London West End - 36 miles
Schools
Primary Schools - Trinity Primary (Ofsted Outstanding), Sacred Heart Catholic Primary school
Secondary School - Gillotts School
Sixth Form - The Henley College
Prep schools include St Mary’s School and Rupert House School
School buses operate to Shiplake College, Reading Blue Coat, Queen Anne’s Caversham, The Abbey, Cranford House, Abingdon Boys School and St Helen & St Katharine.?
Leisure
Henley has vibrant sporting and member clubs, including Henley Hawks Rugby Club, Hockey for all ages, Football, Henley Cricket Club, and Phyllis Court Club. River pursuits include the Henley sailing club, local canoe clubs and various rowing clubs with the world-famous Henley Royal Regatta taking place each summer.
There are marina facilities at Hambleden and Wargrave. There are several golf clubs including Henley Golf Club, Badgemore Park Golf Club. The Chiltern Hills area of outstanding natural beauty provides superb walking, cycling and horse riding.
Tenure - Freehold
Local Authority - South Oxfordshire District Council
Council Tax - Band D
Places of interest
Philip Booth Esq - Henley on Thames
Chiltern House, 45 Station Road Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire RG9 1AT
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