- 5 bedrooms +
- 4 reception rooms +
- 3 bathrooms +
- Garden +
4 Lyndhurst Road is an elegant semi-detached town house of typical Georgian style with sash windows beneath a hipped roof. The entrance driveway leading to the integral garage provides parking space for at least two cars and the house overlooks a lawned front garden with ornamental shrubs, trees and plants.
The house provides spacious family accommodation of considerable character and charm, the main rooms being well proportioned and high ceilinged with features such as shuttered windows, attractive fireplaces, picture rails and decorative cornicing typical of the architectural period.
From the driveway the front door opens into the entrance hall with doors to the large, elegant sitting room and the study at the front of the house, whilst to the rear is the spacious open plan kitchen/dining room with slate tiled flooring, fitted kitchen with island and breakfast bar and the lovely, light dining area with glazed roof and glazed doors out to the terrace and garden. Off the kitchen/ dining room is the cosy family room with French doors to the terrace and garden.
On the first floor, off the main landing, is the principle bedroom/ shower room suite and two further bedrooms, with two more bedrooms and bathrooms off the rear landing.
Glazed doors from the kitchen/ dining room and French doors from the family room open to the terrace at the rear of the house and steps up to a walled garden with lawn fringed by ornamental shrubs and trees and a potting shed.
Lyndhurst Road is one of the premier residential streets in Exeter, in the heart of St Leonard’s, Exeter’s most prestigious and popular residential area, known for it’s quiet tree lined roads and avenues fronted by elegant Georgian villas and Victorian and Edwardian town houses, yet on the doorstep of the city centre.
Nearby is the Magdalen Road shopping parade with independent shops, delicatessen, butcher, fishmonger, bakeries and pub and, close by, is a Waitrose store.
The thriving city centre is an easy walk away with Princesshay shopping centre, John Lewis department store, museum, restaurants and the cathedral and Cathedral Green, surrounded by historic buildings. Nearby is the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and also, within walking distance, is historic Exeter Quay with waterside walks, shopping, dining and leisure activities.
There is a good choice of both state and private schools, including St Leonard’s Primary, Exeter School, The Maynard School for girls and Exeter College. Also the city is home to one of the UK’s top universities.