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" Chain-free sale. A purpose built ground floor retirement apartment offering 1 double bedroom accommodation overlooking the delightful communal gardens and town centre beyond.

Description
Believed to have been built in the late 1980s by national developers, Barratt Homes, the apartment is in a private scheme totalling 33 age exclusive properties with a mixture of 18 apartments and the remainder as maisonettes with a condition of purchase being that residents are over the age of 60 years. Characteristics include sealed unit double glazing with a white internal finish and mahogany external effect, and night ventilators, storage/electric heating, sapele style internal doors with chrome finished handles, textured ceilings, and light and power switchplates at a user friendly height. Located in the main three storey block, the apartment is convenient for the front entrance with the block also incorporating a communal lift. A further advantage of the property is that the living room, kitchen and bedroom enjoy natural light with the outlook over the communal gardens. The living room, bedroom and bathroom are all independently accessed from the reception hall. There is a resident Estate Manager.

Location
Set at the end of an no-through road, St Mary's Close, and alongside the Watercress steam railway line, Alton town centre lies directly to the North with Sainsbury's in-town store approached on foot via Mount Pleasant Road, Maltings Close and Turk Street. There are family and major shops, M&S Simply Food, Boots and Iceland stores, a library, restaurants, hotels and Inns, a museum and gallery, and a variety of associations. Alton also has Westbrooke Gardens with its bowls club and seasonal programme of events, weekly street and farmers market events, a station (Waterloo line), further stores such as Waitrose and Aldi, a sports centre, two golf courses and footpaths.

Covered Porch
Outside lighting, paved threshold and communal entryphone system. Power assisted fob operated glazed main entry door with matching side screens to:-

Communal Foyer
With lighting, heating, and lift and stair access to the upper floors.

Communal Hallway
With further front aspect windows leading to personal hardwood style front door to apartment.

Reception Hall - 10' 2'' x 2' 11'' (3.10m x 0.89m)
Slimline heater, smoke detector. Tunstall entryphone system with automatic door release and emergency pullcord. Built-in double coats/broom cupboard - electric consumer unit, fuse boxes and meter. Built-in double airing cupboard also housing hot water tank + 2 immersion heaters.

Living Room - 16' 4'' x 10' 2'' (4.97m x 3.10m)
Overlooking gardens and rooftops to distant countryside. 4 fitted wall lights, Dimplex storage heater, multi-media socket, phone point (subject to connection). Emergency pullcord.

Kitchen - 11' 0'' x 6' 11'' (3.35m x 2.11m)
Overlooking communal gardens and Maltings Close. Fitted floor cupboards, drawers, laminated worktops, inset Indesit ceramic hob (electric oven not operational and needing replacement by incoming purchaser). Candy cooker hood. Inset one and half bowl stainless steel single drainer sink with waste disposal unit, tiled splashback, wall cupboards. Fitted fridge, plumbing for washing machine, tray space. Vinyl flooring, fluorescent light, extractor fan, emergency pullcord.

Double Bedroom - 10' 0'' x 9' 7'' (3.05m x 2.92m)
Excluding door recess. Overlooking lawned communal gardens. Dimplex storage heater, TV aerial point, phone socket (subject to connection), emergency pullcord.

Bathroom - 6' 8'' x 5' 7'' (2.03m x 1.70m)
Suite of panelled bath with separate Mira Sport electric shower and glazed folding screen, pedestal wash basin and WC with concealed cistern. Tiling to visible walls, extractor fan, shaver socket, Dimplex wall convector heater, tiled effect vinyl floor, emergency pullcord.

Outside

Residents Car Parking
Brick pavioured spaces to the front.

Communal Gardens
Are delightfully landscaped and afford lawns, stocked shrubberies and flower borders with seating and shingle areas. The development has a locked private gate at the end of the gardens directly leading onto Mount Pleasant Road which enables a shorter or alternative route on foot to Sainsbury's and the town centre. Detached brick bin store.

NB
1. Photographs shown may include ones of the development not showing the individual apartment, and also photos of the communal grounds. 2. We have been unable to confirm whether certain items included with this property are in full working order. Any prospective purchaser must accept that the property is offered for sale on this basis. 3. Please apply for further information about the tenure and maintenance charge.

Directions
From the M&S Simply Food store corner at the Western end of High Street, Alton, proceed on Drayman's Way, the town's inner relief road and continue ahead at the Sainsbury's mini-roundabout. At the next mini-roundabout, turn right onto Lower Turk Street and then turn immediately right up Turk Street. Then turn third right into St Mary's Close. Continue to the end where the apartment is in the main block beside the car park.

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