Charming early Garden City town cottage • Dining room extension • Super first floor bathroom • Off-street parking • 54’ long rear garden • Highly desirable central location

The Property - This attractive early Garden City town cottage has been very well updated and improved, whilst fully retaining its original charm and character. It has also been extended on the ground floor to provide a dining room, open-plan to the fitted kitchen. A spacious sitting room completes the ground floor.

The first floor provides a double bedroom with fitted wardrobes and an impressive bathroom with both shower cubicle and bath. The second bedroom is on the second floor.

The cottage benefits from uPVC double-glazed windows and gas fired central heating.

The Outside - The cottage stands in a plot measuring approximately 112' by 23' (34.2m x 7m) overall. To the front is a brick paved off-street parking space, bordered by stone chippings inter-planted with ornamental grasses.

A shared passageway leads to the attractive, private, rear garden, which is some 54' (16.5m) in length with an area of decking adjoining the rear of the house. Steps lead down to the lawn with herbaceous borders, ornamental shrubs, raised vegetable plot and two fine silver birch trees. Timber garden shed.

The Location - Shott Lane is very conveniently located just to the east of the town centre. No 31 is only a third of a mile from the town centre and half a mile from the mainline railway station. Letchworth Garden City is on the Cambridge to London mainline with the fastest service to London King's Cross taking just 29 minutes and Cambridge 27 minutes away in the other direction. Junction 9 on the A1(M) is a mile and a quarter away by car.

Designed in the early 20th Century to combine the benefits of town and country, Letchworth Garden City was the world’s first example of this concept and succeeds to this day in achieving its aim. The town provides excellent schools, shops, leisure facilities and green open spaces, two of the most notable, Howard Park and the 63-acre Norton Common, are only a quarter of a mile and three-quarters of a mile away respectively.

Tenure - LEASEHOLD: 990 year term with 962 years remaining. Peppercorn Ground Rent.

Services - Mains water, sewerage, gas and electricity are connected to the property.

Construction - The original cottage is of solid brick construction, roughcast rendered externally, under a pitched tiled roof. The single-storey rear extension is of insulated cavity construction under a flat roof incorporating a double-glazed lantern rooflight.