4-bedroom detached house · WD3 5EB
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About
Modern family home in a popular location within reach of both Chorleywood and Rickmansworth.
Description The house is approached through the porch in to a bright and light hall way with storage cupboard and cloakroom.
The sitting room offers good space and has sliding patio doors to the garden and a feature fireplace surround with electric fire and this room connects to the dining room which has sliding doors to the garden.
To the front is a study and the kitchen also faces the front and is fitted with a comprehensive range of built-in wall and floor units with integrated appliances including fridge, washing machine and cooker.
On the first floor there is an airing cupboard and access to the loft space. The principal bedroom has built-in wardrobes and an en suite shower room.
There are three further double bedrooms and a family bathroom comprising a bath, vanity unit and WC. Outside The house is approached over a driveway with a carport and single garage.
There are two storage cupboards plus a useful garden room that could be incorporated into the main house subject to alterations and usual consents.
There is side access to the rear garden and the garden is in two areas which could be combined and are currently paved making good entertaining space.
Location South Cottage Drive is a lovely cul de sac of family homes and this particular home offers some lovely space and scope to create further living space.
It is situated close to the popular village Common with its picturesque walks, bridle paths and a nine hole golf course.
Rickmansworth and its station (2 miles away) plus Chorleywood village and station 1 mile) both offer the Metropolitan Line to Baker Street and the City plus the Chiltern Turbo to Marylebone.
Both offer good local shopping, restaurants and cafés with Rickmansworth having the larger supermarkets of Waitrose, Tesco and Marks & Spencer.
Access to the M25 at Junction 18 provides connections to the major trunk roads. [All distances are approximate].
Square Footage: 1,745 sq ft Directions From Rickmansworth Station proceed along the A404 towards Chorleywood. Go over the M25 and at the traffic lights turn left into Dog Kennel Lane.
Continue for approximately a third of a mile and then turn left into South Cottage Drive and the house can be found on the right.
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