Needlers End Lane, Balsall Common

Asking Price Of - £335,000

Semi-Detached House

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An extended four bedroom semi-detached family house located in the heart of Balsall Common village. Generous accommodation to include large lounge/dining room, kitchen, conservatory, extended office/reception room with utility and downstairs toilet. Parking to the rear, garden, garage and brick stores. Would benefit from some modernisation. No upward chain.

PROPERTY IN BRIEF

Ginger are delighted to offer this extended four bedroom semi-detached house located in the heart of Balsall Common. Easy reach to the village centre, the local schools, and convenient to major road connections, Berkswell train station, Birmingham International and a short drive to Solihull town centre, Kenilworth and Coventry.

The property would benefit from cosmetic modernisation yet provides a great opportunity to put your own stamp on the styling. The house delivers generous accommodation having been extended to the side, which opens up opportunities to work from home. The downstairs accommodation also has a utility area and downstairs toilet, a welcoming hallway with useful storage. There is a good sized family kitchen plus a spacious lounge/dining area with both sliding and patio doors leading into the conservatory.

Upstairs, the property offers four bedrooms, three great sized double bedrooms and a spacious single, with the principal bedroom having a generous en-suite bathroom.

Outside, the rear garden is south-facing, with a tarmac driveway to the rear, single sized garage, bin store as well as a workshop/store to the side of the property. There is an annual licence fee towards the rear access road, we are advised £120pa.

The property is sold with the benefits of no upward chain.

APPROACH

The property set on Needlers End Lane is set back from the roadside, with some common ground in front. There is a pathway leading to the front door. There is parking to the rear of the property, with a private driveway, a garage, and access through Temple Ave, where there is a small charge per annum for the council to maintain the access road at the rear. However, you do have a license for the parking. For children the play park is just over the road and plenty of walks on hand.

LIVING ACCOMMODATION

The property has been extended on the side of the ground floor, which offers an adaptable space, having two entrance doors to the front, one into the original house, and the second front door into the extended part. This does open up options should you work from home to provide a private entrance into your office space for clients. This extension also has provisions for your washing machine with some work-surface space, as well as a downstairs toilet to the rear and access to the garden. There is a large central heating radiator with thermostat control, connectivity for Virgin Cable, subject to your own subscription, and a handy storage cupboard which is home to the Worcester boiler, as well as having ceiling spotlights. Door leading through to the spacious hallway.

The property has a handy porch area to escape the rain with door leading into the hallway. The hallway is neutrally presented, providing two useful cupboards and stairs rising into the bedrooms and bathroom. The hallway also has central heating.

The kitchen is spacious and works well for a family home, providing a good compliment of wall and base units with provisions for a dishwasher and fridge with a handy pantry storage area, sink and drainer with double glazed window to the front. The owners are also leaving as part of the sale, a Range style cooker with extractor hood over.

The lounge/dining room is a great space, again, working brilliantly for a family, the living area with feature fireplace, and sliding patio doors into the conservatory, where the dining area is denoted by laminate flooring, perfect for a family sized dining table with central heating radiator and French doors opening into the conservatory. The space also has a central heating radiator, ceiling lights and the handy shelf for your books and CDs. A great social space especially in the warmer months to open the party into the conservatory and garden.

The large conservatory is a nice addition to the property, a quiet, relaxing space to unwind, a flexible space, either as a child’s play area, a summer dining area, or a place to sit with a coffee. There are large French doors to the rear garden.

BEDROOMS & BATHROOM

This property enjoys generous bedroom sizes, there are four bedrooms on the first floor, as well as a family bathroom.

The landing gives access to all rooms as well as having access into the loft space.

The principal bedroom is a nice size room, located at the front of the house with a double glazed window looking in to the wooded area opposite, a central heating radiator set underneath and neutrally presented. This room provides good floor space, perfect for your bed, side tables and free-standing wardrobes as well as having the benefit of an en-suite bathroom.

The principal en-suite is a nice size providing a bath with shower over which is an attachment to the Victorian style taps in the bath, a pedestal wash basin within individual hot and cold taps, and a WC. The en-suite is tiled to the floors and walls, easy to maintain as well as a flower-patterned frosted window to the rear elevation and central heating radiator.

Bedroom number two is set to the rear of the house enjoying the sunny view across the rear garden. Another nice sized bedroom providing plenty of room for bed, side tables, free-standing wardrobes, and if it’s a younger member of family, a great spot for a homework or gaming desk. The bedroom is neutrally presented with central heating radiator.

Bedroom number three is also a good sized double bedroom set to the rear of the house with a double glazed window and central heating radiator under, as well as having access cupboard with ladders leading up into the boarded loft space. This room would be perfect for a younger member of the family to have their bedspace, and the exciting adventure of the loft room which is boarded and panelled, and works really well as a den/playroom, or a great place for their friends to hang out.

The fourth bedroom is a spacious single set to the front of the house, it will easily accommodate a single bed, wardrobe and bedside cabinet, and benefits from a useful built-in wardrobe with some shelving and hanging rail.

The family bathroom offers a bath with mains-fed shower over, a wc, a handy vanity unit with sink, as well as being tiled around the walls, vinyl flooring for ease of cleaning, a radiator, towel rails, and frosted double glazed window to the front elevation.

OUTSIDE SPACE

The property enjoys a generous south-facing rear garden, with nice lawn. In addition, benefit of an outdoor brick built store, which is handy for dry storage or bins, as well as a garage set to the rear. There’s also gated tarmac parking on the rear of the property, the owners do pay a license fee £120 per annum to Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council for the maintaining of the rear access road. in addition, the property has a further store/workshop to the side and rear of the property, as well as there being French doors leading into the conservatory, and a door into the utility entrance lobby.

USEFUL INFORMATION

We are advised this property is Freehold, please seek confirmation from your legal representative.

We are advised the council tax band C is payable to Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council.

The EPC rating is included in the listing. Please request the report from the agent if needed.

Ginger have not checked appliances nor have we seen sight of any building regulations or planning permissions. You should take guidance from your legal representative before purchasing any property.

Room sizes and property layout are presented in good faith as a guide only. Although we have taken every step to ensure the plans are as accurate as possible, you must rely on your own measurements or those of your surveyor. Not every room is accounted for when giving the total floor space. Dimensions are generally taken at the widest points.

All information we provide is in good faith and as a general guide to the property. Subjective comments in these descriptions imply the opinion of the selling agent at the time these details were prepared. However, the opinions of a purchaser may differ. Details have been verified by the sellers.

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