4 bedroom detached house for sale

FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION ON FRIDAY 26TH APRIL 2024 AT 3PM - AUCTION GUIDE PRICE £225,000 - £250,000

A most appealing detached cottage providing well proportioned rooms, in need of a general scheme of modernisation and improvement, set within attractive gardens in this popular rural village.

Directions - From Shrewsbury take the A458 south east heading towards Bridgnorth, pass through the village of Cross Houses and continue onto Cressage. On entering the village take the right turn before the war memorial onto Shore Lane and the property will be identified immediately on the right hand side.

Situation - The property is pleasantly situated in the village of Cressage which offers a village shop, primary school and village hall. Cressage is extremely convenient for access to Shrewsbury, which provides a comprehensive range of shopping, doctors' surgery and leisure amenities. It is also well placed for Telford, Much Wenlock and Bridgnorth with good road links to the M54 and onto the West Midlands.

Description - 1 Shrewsbury Road is a highly desirable and most appealing cottage of character. The property offers well proportioned rooms throughout and is in need of a scheme of modernisation and improvement allowing all potential purchasers an opportunity to introduce their own ideas and tastes. The ground floor offers two traditional reception rooms and a breakfast kitchen. To the first floor there are four bedooms and a bathroom. Outside, there is off street parking together with a range of outbuildings. The gardens have been attractively designed and well maintained offering generous flowing lawns together with numerous well stocked shrubbery beds and borders.

Accommodation - Panelled entrance door leads into:

Front Porch - With quarry tiled floor and timber door leading to:

Entrance Hall -

Living Room - Stone fireplace with slate hearth.

Dining Room -

Breakfast Kitchen - With tile effect vinyl flooring, providing base level storage cupboards, fitted worktop, stainless sink unit and drainer. Door to rear porch, door to under stair storage cupboard, walk in pantry with fitted shelving, additional built in cupboards.

Rear Porch - With access door to rear.

First Floor Landing -

Bedroom One - With access to loft space.

Bedroom Two - With built in wardrobe.

Bedroom Three - With access to store room.

Bedroom Four - With airing cupboard housing the insulated hot water cylinder.

Bathroom - Providing low level WC, wall mounted wash hand basin and panelled bath, part tiled walls.

Outside - The property is approached off street to the front through a timber gate, whilst gated parking is provided to the rear.

The Gardens - To the front the gardens offer low maintenance shrubbery borders. The majority of the gardens sit to the side and rear and provide generous flowing lawns flanked by raised shrubbery beds and borders containing a number of different plants. The property provides a number of outbuildings which include:

Workshop - Attached To The Main House. - With power and light.

Timber & Corrugated Iron Garage - 7.32m.2.13m x 3.05m.0.61m (24.7 x 10.2) - With power and light.

Two Corrugated Stores -

Brick And Tile Workshop - 4.27m.1.52m x 2.44m.0.61m (14.5 x 8.2) - With power and light.

Boiler House - Housing the WORCESTER oil fired central heating boiler.

General Remarks -

Fixtures And Fittings - Only those items described in these particulars are included in the sale.

Services - Mains electricity, water and drainage is understood to be connected. Oil fired central heating. None of these services have been tested.

Council Tax - The property is currently showing as Council Tax Band D. Please confirm the council tax details via Shropshire Council on[use Contact Agent Button] or visit .

Method Of Sale - The property will be offered for sale by PUBLIC AUCTION ON 26TH APRIL 2024 AT 3PM AT HALLS HOLDINGS HOUSE, BOWMEN WAY, BATTLEFIELD, SHREWSBURY, SY4 3DR. The Auctioneers, as agents, on behalf of the vendors, reserve the right to alter, divide, amalgamate or withdraw any of the property for sale at any time. The Auctioneers, further, reserve the right to sell the property privately, prior to auction without prior notice or explanation and no liability will be accepted to any intending purchaser in consequence of such a decision.

Boundaries, Roads And Fences - The Purchaser shall be deemed to have full knowledge of the boundaries and neither the Vendors nor their Agents will be responsible for defining any ownership of boundaries, hedges or fences. They will however provide whatever assistance they can to ascertain the ownership of the same.

Contract Of Special Conditions Of Sale - The property will be sold subject to the Special Conditions of sale, which are not to be read at the time of sale, but will be available for inspection at the offices of the VENDORS SOLICITORS: MS BETH PRINCE - WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON, ONE TRINITY, BROAD CHARE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 2HF, [use Contact Agent Button], OR AT THE AUCTIONEERS OFFICES, HALLS, 2 BARKER STREET, SHREWSBURY, SHROPSHIRE, SY1 1QJ. [use Contact Agent Button], approximately 14 days prior to the date of the auction. The purchasers will be deemed to bid on those terms and conditions and shall be deemed to purchase with full knowledge thereof, whether he/she has read the Special Conditions of sale or not.

Buyers Premium - In addition to the contract deposit required, buyers should note when bidding, that on the fall of the gavel, they will be responsible for paying a Buyer's Premium as noted on individual lots. This is additional to the purchase price and set at 2.5% plus VAT, i.e. (3%) of the "hammer price", subject to a minimum fee of £2,500 plus VAT (£3,000).

Buyers Registration - Purchasers interested in bidding for a lot are required to complete a BUYERS' REGISTRATION FORM prior to bidding at the Auction AND PRODUCE ID. FAILURE TO REGISTER MAY RESULT IN THE AUCTIONEER REFUSING TO ACCEPT YOUR BID.

Guide Price/Reserve - *Guides are provided as an indication of each sellers minimum expectation. They are not necessarily figures which a property will sell for and may change at any time prior to the auction. Each property will be offered subject to a RESERVE (a figure below which the Auctioneer cannot sell the property during the auction) which we expect will be set within the Guide Range or no more than 10% above a single figure Guide.

Purchasers Covenant - Halls would draw interested parties attention to the purchasers covenants;
(1) All external alterations to the property and/or extensions, will require consent from Raby Estate and this would not unreasonably be withheld.
(2) There is to be no future development at the property other than ancillary, agricultural, equestrian or storage buildings.

Tenure - Freehold. Purchasers must confirm via their solicitor.

Viewings - Halls, 2 Barker Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY1 1QJ. [use Contact Agent Button]. [use Contact Agent Button]