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- Historic Market Place setting
- Contemporary and modern fittings in an historic building
- View of Chancery Lane
- On site bike store
- Pre-wired for Virgin Media, BT, SKY Q, terrestrial TV and are pre-wired on walls for HDMI connectivity
- Multi Storey Car Park Permit
A truly unique 1-bed apartment on the Georgian side of the building, complete with upstairs bedroom sporting a full-length floor to ceiling window. Juliet offers a lounge/kitchen that enjoys French doors opening onto a Juliet balcony and a bathroom that has a full-length bath with over-shower. The apartments windows and balcony look onto Chancery Lane and Pease House, birthplace of Edward Pease the Father of Railways, and his former garden. A truly unique apartment that has a wonderful homely feel throughout.
Apartment size: 43.3 sqm
* Please note the photographs are CGI enhanced images of example interiors and layouts. Actual photographs of the apartments will be available shortly
Crafted carefully within two historic town centre marketplace buildings, all Lears Residence apartments are truly unique, SMART, provide comfort, convenience and that little piece of local history.
The historic setting of Lears Residence means no two apartments are the same, with all apartment layouts and rooms unique in every way in order to blend naturally into their 18th Century surrounds. If you do not want four square walls and magnolia paint, then Lears residence is most definitely for you. Being on the historic Marketplace, you have everything shopping, leisure and dining can offer.
Apartments at the front of Lears Residence reflect the style and feel of both periods, Georgian and Victorian, as they sit in the original buildings footprints. Those sited deeper into the property have a slightly more contemporary feel as they sit in the extended aspects of both period houses.
The SMART apartments are pre-wired for Virgin Media, BT, SKY Q, terrestrial TV and are pre-wired on walls for HDMI connectivity. All have the benefit of mains powered linked smoke and fire detectors, building entrance door intercom system with all electrical supplies being installed to latest regulation specs including supply surge protection.
Early purchases bring the advantage of choice of kitchen colours, additional HDMI cabling and flooring. There is an on-site bike store and each apartment comes with an annual residents car parking pass.
Tenure - The properties are leasehold held on a 999 year lease.
Service Charge: £40 pcm
Each owner of the apartments will have an equal share in the building management company.
THE BUILDING
Standing on Darlingtons Market Place, Lears Residence consists of two outstanding and historic buildings, the Victorian, 4 Horsemarket, and the older Georgian, 5-6 Horsemarket, which is a Grade II listed - both addresses were the backdrop to King George V and Queen Marys visit to the town in 1913.
Next door but one to the birthplace of Edward Pease, The Father of the Railways, 5-6 Horsemarket opened in 1760 by Devonian John Lear, who married into the area, and was the home of the towns hardware and ironmonger, J Lear & Sons, for over 200 years, The ground floor of the building was home to the ironmongers store, including the towns brush maker, Mr Palphramand, while the two floors above provided the Lear family residence quarters.
The Darlington Literary Society was born in the building and the towns Quiot Club met there as the Lear family were well placed in Darlington society. After 205 years of servicing the town with the likes of sough grates, grog pots, maslin kettles, sheep bells, wolf traps and luxurious spittoons, the 5th Generation Lear, John Aubrey, closed the business in 1965 with the building becoming the new home to Cox and Falconers furniture store.
Victorian times saw 4 Horsemarket added next door becoming home to Mortimer's Haberdashery, then the Stop Boutique and Todds clothing store. The past few decades has seen the building conjoined internally to 5-6 Horsemarket, used to house the towns Pizza Hut restaurant on the ground floor (which remains) as well as commercial office space on the three floors above.
Internally, both buildings are now one, sharing the same high-specification Georgian access directly from Horsemarket. Apartments 2, 6, 9 and 11 all lie within the Victorian building, the rest enjoy being located within the Georgian side.
THE RESTORATION
Lears Residence has a lovely, comforting and homely feel. Taking just a couple of steps inside brings a warm sense of centuries of family life blended perfectly with local history and we have cherished that. Half a century of commercial office space use may have taken away a lot of visual reminders of the buildings past history, however the full renovation has not.
Working closely with the town councils conservation team RDBM Developments have opened every nook and cranny, making some wonderful finds along the way, like a box full of old miniature bottles, an early light bulb, a packet of Players cigarettes and some wonderful 17th Century craftmanship.
No corners have been cut nor cost spared. Specialist historic timer craftsmen have been used to handmake all new windows, such as Apartment 2s large hardwood Victorian sash that replaced an ugly louvered commercial glass panel. Conservation of original Georgian sash windows on 5-6 Horsemarket has been absolute, with the units being carefully removed, fully hand refurbished, thermally improved and replaced. Any and all additions to the buildings windows have been of high-quality traditional handmade hardwood construction. This combination of hand refurbishment and replace has cost in excess of £55,000 alone.
Interior Georgian window shuttering to Apartments 1 and 5 has been carefully restored and retained whilst adding a more contemporary feel to other apartments with exposed brickwork. There is a true blend of the old and the new.
Roofs, walls, ceilings and floors have been completely renovated and improved, oak doors have been added and the layout design of the new residences has been carefully planned and detailed to do the historic building justice.
Each apartment is SMART, ready for Virgin Media high-speed broadband, BT services as well as SKYQ. Flats 1, 2, 5, 6, 10 and 11 retain fabulous views of High Row and Flat 9 sees new additions to fabric of the building with an impressively large mezzanine bedroom and roof top patio with Apartments 5, 10 and 11 sporting lovely new thermally efficient, traditional look new dormers, allowing rooms space to breathe.
All in all, this has been a restoration in full sympathy with a unique building with a unique history using traditional hand crafted methods one we have great pride in.
THE CONVENIENCE
The beauty of living in the heart of a traditional market town means Lears Residence is perfectly placed for super-convenient everyday living with great leisure, retail and dining facilities right on your doorstep. As you exit the building, a few steps to the left brings you Al Fresco dining on Blackwellgate, straight ahead is the High Row shopping area complete with Indoor Market and to the right is the outdoor Market Place.
The Dolphin Centre is a few doors down where you can work off the pounds in the fitness and swimming complex. For those that like to pamper themselves, Chancery Lane Health + Wellness Centre sits next door, offering services such as, physiotherapy, sports massage, acupuncture, reflexology, yoga, pilates and skincare treatments. The towns brand new DL1 cinema and restaurant complex is a 1 minute walk away.
Transport is equally convenient. If you need super-fast connections to the rest of the country, Darlingtons East Coast Main Line station is just a five minute walk from the door, a station already earmarked for HS2. If you have a bike, no problem, Lears Residence has its own bike garage. A car, also no issue, as each apartment comes with a residents parking permit for the convenient multi-story car park at the rear of the building.
Lears Residence is the home for high specification, super-convenient, professional inner-city living, something RDBM Developments is really is proud to be leading.
THE TOWN
Ranked 7th best place to live in the UK in a recent Quality of Life Index (uSwitch, 2015) and 2nd in the North East behind rural Northumberland, the town of Darlington is undergoing a real renaissance.
Home of EE, Argos distribution and Amazon's northern distribution headquarters, the town enjoys a high employment rate at 72%. Housing in the Georgian market town is affordable with detached houses averaging over £260,000 and apartments over £123,000 (( ... ), 2019). The towns historic birthplace of railway status has also attracted the likes of Hitachis Azuma high-speed train manufacturing site based in neighbouring Newton Aycliffe.
Life expectancy is above national averages and with mortality rates lower than average, Darlington is classified as a healthy city. Living costs are lower than average and as youd expect with the town being the home of communications giant EE, Darlington rates very well in terms of national connectivity with 98% mobile signal coverage and good for average broadband speed of 29.5Mbps.
Town centre has undergone a recent full refurbishment creating, The Pedestrian Heart, where the Horsemarket development sits along with brand new leisure and retail facilities in the shape of the DL1 complex. The marketplace enjoys a good supply of high-quality bistros, coffee shops and wine bars. Further refurbishment plans are soon to begin to regenerate the short Victoria Road tree lined connector between the main railway station and the Pedestrian Heart ahead of HS2 arriving in the town.
Apartment size: 43.3 sqm
* Please note the photographs are CGI enhanced images of example interiors and layouts. Actual photographs of the apartments will be available shortly
Crafted carefully within two historic town centre marketplace buildings, all Lears Residence apartments are truly unique, SMART, provide comfort, convenience and that little piece of local history.
The historic setting of Lears Residence means no two apartments are the same, with all apartment layouts and rooms unique in every way in order to blend naturally into their 18th Century surrounds. If you do not want four square walls and magnolia paint, then Lears residence is most definitely for you. Being on the historic Marketplace, you have everything shopping, leisure and dining can offer.
Apartments at the front of Lears Residence reflect the style and feel of both periods, Georgian and Victorian, as they sit in the original buildings footprints. Those sited deeper into the property have a slightly more contemporary feel as they sit in the extended aspects of both period houses.
The SMART apartments are pre-wired for Virgin Media, BT, SKY Q, terrestrial TV and are pre-wired on walls for HDMI connectivity. All have the benefit of mains powered linked smoke and fire detectors, building entrance door intercom system with all electrical supplies being installed to latest regulation specs including supply surge protection.
Early purchases bring the advantage of choice of kitchen colours, additional HDMI cabling and flooring. There is an on-site bike store and each apartment comes with an annual residents car parking pass.
Tenure - The properties are leasehold held on a 999 year lease.
Service Charge: £40 pcm
Each owner of the apartments will have an equal share in the building management company.
THE BUILDING
Standing on Darlingtons Market Place, Lears Residence consists of two outstanding and historic buildings, the Victorian, 4 Horsemarket, and the older Georgian, 5-6 Horsemarket, which is a Grade II listed - both addresses were the backdrop to King George V and Queen Marys visit to the town in 1913.
Next door but one to the birthplace of Edward Pease, The Father of the Railways, 5-6 Horsemarket opened in 1760 by Devonian John Lear, who married into the area, and was the home of the towns hardware and ironmonger, J Lear & Sons, for over 200 years, The ground floor of the building was home to the ironmongers store, including the towns brush maker, Mr Palphramand, while the two floors above provided the Lear family residence quarters.
The Darlington Literary Society was born in the building and the towns Quiot Club met there as the Lear family were well placed in Darlington society. After 205 years of servicing the town with the likes of sough grates, grog pots, maslin kettles, sheep bells, wolf traps and luxurious spittoons, the 5th Generation Lear, John Aubrey, closed the business in 1965 with the building becoming the new home to Cox and Falconers furniture store.
Victorian times saw 4 Horsemarket added next door becoming home to Mortimer's Haberdashery, then the Stop Boutique and Todds clothing store. The past few decades has seen the building conjoined internally to 5-6 Horsemarket, used to house the towns Pizza Hut restaurant on the ground floor (which remains) as well as commercial office space on the three floors above.
Internally, both buildings are now one, sharing the same high-specification Georgian access directly from Horsemarket. Apartments 2, 6, 9 and 11 all lie within the Victorian building, the rest enjoy being located within the Georgian side.
THE RESTORATION
Lears Residence has a lovely, comforting and homely feel. Taking just a couple of steps inside brings a warm sense of centuries of family life blended perfectly with local history and we have cherished that. Half a century of commercial office space use may have taken away a lot of visual reminders of the buildings past history, however the full renovation has not.
Working closely with the town councils conservation team RDBM Developments have opened every nook and cranny, making some wonderful finds along the way, like a box full of old miniature bottles, an early light bulb, a packet of Players cigarettes and some wonderful 17th Century craftmanship.
No corners have been cut nor cost spared. Specialist historic timer craftsmen have been used to handmake all new windows, such as Apartment 2s large hardwood Victorian sash that replaced an ugly louvered commercial glass panel. Conservation of original Georgian sash windows on 5-6 Horsemarket has been absolute, with the units being carefully removed, fully hand refurbished, thermally improved and replaced. Any and all additions to the buildings windows have been of high-quality traditional handmade hardwood construction. This combination of hand refurbishment and replace has cost in excess of £55,000 alone.
Interior Georgian window shuttering to Apartments 1 and 5 has been carefully restored and retained whilst adding a more contemporary feel to other apartments with exposed brickwork. There is a true blend of the old and the new.
Roofs, walls, ceilings and floors have been completely renovated and improved, oak doors have been added and the layout design of the new residences has been carefully planned and detailed to do the historic building justice.
Each apartment is SMART, ready for Virgin Media high-speed broadband, BT services as well as SKYQ. Flats 1, 2, 5, 6, 10 and 11 retain fabulous views of High Row and Flat 9 sees new additions to fabric of the building with an impressively large mezzanine bedroom and roof top patio with Apartments 5, 10 and 11 sporting lovely new thermally efficient, traditional look new dormers, allowing rooms space to breathe.
All in all, this has been a restoration in full sympathy with a unique building with a unique history using traditional hand crafted methods one we have great pride in.
THE CONVENIENCE
The beauty of living in the heart of a traditional market town means Lears Residence is perfectly placed for super-convenient everyday living with great leisure, retail and dining facilities right on your doorstep. As you exit the building, a few steps to the left brings you Al Fresco dining on Blackwellgate, straight ahead is the High Row shopping area complete with Indoor Market and to the right is the outdoor Market Place.
The Dolphin Centre is a few doors down where you can work off the pounds in the fitness and swimming complex. For those that like to pamper themselves, Chancery Lane Health + Wellness Centre sits next door, offering services such as, physiotherapy, sports massage, acupuncture, reflexology, yoga, pilates and skincare treatments. The towns brand new DL1 cinema and restaurant complex is a 1 minute walk away.
Transport is equally convenient. If you need super-fast connections to the rest of the country, Darlingtons East Coast Main Line station is just a five minute walk from the door, a station already earmarked for HS2. If you have a bike, no problem, Lears Residence has its own bike garage. A car, also no issue, as each apartment comes with a residents parking permit for the convenient multi-story car park at the rear of the building.
Lears Residence is the home for high specification, super-convenient, professional inner-city living, something RDBM Developments is really is proud to be leading.
THE TOWN
Ranked 7th best place to live in the UK in a recent Quality of Life Index (uSwitch, 2015) and 2nd in the North East behind rural Northumberland, the town of Darlington is undergoing a real renaissance.
Home of EE, Argos distribution and Amazon's northern distribution headquarters, the town enjoys a high employment rate at 72%. Housing in the Georgian market town is affordable with detached houses averaging over £260,000 and apartments over £123,000 (( ... ), 2019). The towns historic birthplace of railway status has also attracted the likes of Hitachis Azuma high-speed train manufacturing site based in neighbouring Newton Aycliffe.
Life expectancy is above national averages and with mortality rates lower than average, Darlington is classified as a healthy city. Living costs are lower than average and as youd expect with the town being the home of communications giant EE, Darlington rates very well in terms of national connectivity with 98% mobile signal coverage and good for average broadband speed of 29.5Mbps.
Town centre has undergone a recent full refurbishment creating, The Pedestrian Heart, where the Horsemarket development sits along with brand new leisure and retail facilities in the shape of the DL1 complex. The marketplace enjoys a good supply of high-quality bistros, coffee shops and wine bars. Further refurbishment plans are soon to begin to regenerate the short Victoria Road tree lined connector between the main railway station and the Pedestrian Heart ahead of HS2 arriving in the town.
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