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About
A beautifully presented four bedroom characterful detached family home with driveway parking, ideally situated within a highly desirable location in Hitchin.
This charming and spacious property offers well balanced accommodation, perfectly suited for modern family living.
The ground floor welcomes you via an entrance porch leading into a central hallway, with access to a convenient downstairs WC.
To the front, the elegant living room features a bay window, filling the space with natural light and enhancing its warm, characterful feel.
To the rear, the heart of the home unfolds into a large, bright and thoughtfully designed open-plan living space, incorporating the kitchen, dining and additional reception area.
This superb space is perfect for both everyday living and entertaining, complemented by a cosy log burner and doors opening directly onto the garden.
A further rear porch adds practicality and additional access. The first floor boasts a generous principal bedroom complete with built-in wardrobes and a modern ensuite shower room.
Two further bedrooms are well proportioned and served by a stylish family bathroom.
The second floor provides an additional double bedroom, offering flexibility for growing families, guests or home working, along with useful storage space.
Externally, the property enjoys a generous rear garden with a useful brick-built store. To the front, a large side access leads to a driveway providing off-street parking.
Hitchin is a charming medieval market town and has many fine Tudor and Georgian buildings, particularly around the market square.
Near to the market square stands the large medieval parish church of St Mary.
The town provides good shopping as well as a swimming pool, football team, two theatres, a wide variety of restaurants and pubs and highly regarded girls’ and boys’ schools.
There is also a mainline railway station providing direct access to Kings Cross and Cambridge.
Value & comps
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Properties like this can earn 2–3x BTL yields when converted to HMO, with retrofit costs around £10k/room. Sign in to see the full tier, yield projection, and cost breakdown.
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About 51, Balmoral Road, Hitchin
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