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See how verdicts work2-bedroom house · AL3 4PE
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Summary Sitting/dining room | Kitchen/breakfast room | Living room/snug | Two bedrooms | Bath/shower room | South-facing rear garden | Tenure - Freehold The Property Internally, the cottage offers quite exceptional accommodation over four immaculately presented floors.
To the ground floor the main reception space provides well-proportioned dining and sitting areas, leading open plan to a beautifully appointed kitchen which in turn looks over and leads to the cottage garden at the rear.
The whole space is flooded with natural light, and two very comfortable staircases lead up and down from the floor to the rest of the cottage.
Going down, a surprisingly spacious lower ground floor with generous head height offers further reception space.
Currently used as an evening room, it provides a cosy retreat but could also be used as an occasional bedroom for guests, or as a home office.
To the first floor is the first of the bedrooms, a very comfortable double, adjacent to a stylishly appointed bath & shower room, while on the top floor, accessed via another very comfortable gentle staircase is the second bedroom, which benefits from a dormer window to the rear and a second window on the side elevation allowing for the westerly light to flood in during the afternoon and evening.
Throughout, the house has been presented with an impeccable eye for detail, combining elegant interior design with the many charming character features the house has retained.
The result is quite simply exquisite. Outside Outside, the cottage sits behind a charming, mainly rendered, period façade beneath a high-pitched tile hung roof.
To the rear of the cottage is a gorgeous south-facing walled garden laid mainly to paving with areas of planting and some lovely mature flowering shrubs.
It enjoys a high degree of privacy, makes a lovely back drop to the cottage and the ideal place for alfresco dining and entertaining, or just a sanctuary to while away the hours in the tranquility of peace and quiet it offers.
It is hard to believe that just moments away is the hustle and bustle of St Albans thriving city centre.
Location Situated in the heart of the old conservation area, with everything that the Cathedral Quarter has to offer literally on the doorstep.
As is the city centre with its extensive leisure and retail amenities, both stations and well-regarded local schools.
The parks at Romeland, Verulamium, Victoria and The Brickie are all, but a short dog walk away as well.
General Tenure - Freehold Services - Main water, drainage, gas & electricity EPC rating - D Council Tax Band - E £2,894.66
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About 15, Lower Dagnall Street, St Albans
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