Duchess Drive,
Bridgnorth,
Shropshire, WV16 4JB
Auction Guide Price £235,000

A larger version three bedroom semi-detached featuring interconnecting reception rooms and extended to the rear to create generous family accommodation in an ever popular location due to the proximity of well-regarded schooling for children of all ages, including St. Johns Roman Catholic Primary School and The Bridgnorth Endowed School.

69 Duchess Drive is available for sale with no forward chain for ease of purchase. The property is the larger version of the three bedroom semi-detached created and available on this popular estate and as such has larger rooms and more versatile accommodation which has been the subject of a single storey extension to the rear to provide a larger kitchen and interconnecting reception rooms divided by multi pane glazed double doors and now offers a large potentially open plan space with natural light from both front and rear that is both versatile for family accommodation and ideal for entertaining.

The aspirational market town of Bridgnorth has a wide variety of amenities including well regarded schools for children of all ages, a doctors surgery, a selection of supermarkets, local and High Street shops, pharmacies, opticians, traditional public houses, restaurants, a characterful theatre, cinema and petrol stations at vantage points. The town subject to a siege during the English Civil War, is rich in history and features a castle ruin leaning at an angle greater than that of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Cliff Railway that runs between low town and Hightown Bridgnorth is the steepest inland Railway in the country and the Severn Valley Railway, a steam railway, that runs between Bridgnorth and Kidderminster, following the root of the River Severn, passes through some beautiful Shropshire Countryside.

Entrance Hall
An obscure glazed front door and side screen open to an entrance hall with central heating radiator, staircase to 1st floor with wooden balustrade and under stairs storage cupboard, doors off the hall radiate to the reception rooms and kitchen.

Front Reception Room
This room features a wide window to the front which allows for a lot of natural light, this bright room features as its focal point a fitted gas fire on a stone hearth, and also ceiling coving and a central heating radiator, multi pane glazed doors open to the dining room and dining room extension.

Dining Room
Entered either via multi pane glazed double doors from the front reception room or door from the kitchen this generously proportion dining room of 158 ft.² has central heating radiators, wall light points and sliding double glazed doors overlooking the rear garden which together with the wide front window to the reception room and the multi pane glazed interconnecting doors allow light to filter throughout this area of the ground floor.

Kitchen
Extended so that the matching kitchen cabinetry of floor and wall mounted wood fronted cupboards and drawers are located in the kitchen extension and the original kitchen space could now be utilised as a breakfast dining area. Appliances in the kitchen are integrated and feature a Tricity double oven, and inset in the round edge work surfaces, a hob with a stainless steel cover / splash back also inset within the works surface a double bowl stainless steel sink unit with swan neck mixer tap underneath the window that provides views of the rear garden. Further storage is available in the pantry cupboard, a glazed door leads to a rear entrance lobby.

Rear Entrance Lobby
With ceramic tiled floor, part glazed garden door, door to cloakroom, and door to garage

Cloakroom
Fitted with a white low flush WC with push button flush, ceramic tiled floor obscure glazed window to side

Garage
A single garage of 163 ft.² with part glazed double opening doors to the driveway light and power points, wall mounted central heating boiler and programmer.

First Floor Landing 
With obscure glazed window to side, access hatch to loft space, doors radiate off the landing to three bedrooms and the bathroom

Bedroom One
Located at the rear of the house and overlooking the rear garden via a double-glazed window this room features ceiling coving and a built-in wardrobe.

Bedroom Two
Set at the front of the house and therefore with views of the street this room features ceiling coving and a built-in wardrobe
Bedroom Three
Set at the front of the house with built-in bed platform and desk or dressing table.

Bathroom 
Fitted with a white suite comprising panel bath, pedestal wash handbasin and low flush WC central heating radiator, ceramic tiled splashback, wall mounted medicine cabinet, ceiling coving, obscure glazed window to rear.

Front garden
They’ve mainly to a double width Tom Adam driveway which leads up to both a canopy porch entrance and the double opening garage doors where’s a rocky retained herbaceous border? Decide?

Rear Garden
Generously proportioned and approached from either the side access gate, rear door from the rear entrance lobby or from the double glazed sliding patio doors, the garden features a generously proportioned paved full width patio area with inset border partly surrounded by trellis with a mature clematis shrouding, beyond the patio is a shaped lawn with inset rockery and hedge and fence boundaries, a greenhouse which would be useful for a gardener.

Tenure
we understand that the property is freehold

Services
The property has the benefit of all main services, the central heating as described, is mains gas fired.

Local Authority
Shropshire. Local Authority Reference Number 3300409300000000, council tax band C

Energy performance certificate
The property has an Energy Performance Certificate, Certificate Number 8236-3024-9600-0221-1202, valid until 9th April 2036 with an Energy Rating of C.

Viewing
All viewings are to be arranged via the Bridgnorth office of Nick Tart Estate Agents, 01746 711442 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Auction
This property is for sale by the modern method of auction, meaning that the buyer and seller are to complete within 56 days (“the reservation period”) interested parties personal data will be shared with the auctioneer (Iamsold).
If considering buying with a mortgage, inspect and consider the property carefully with your lender before bidding.
A buyer information pack is provided. The winning bidder will pay £349 including VAT for this pack which you must view before bidding.
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Services may be recommended by the agent or auctioneer in which they will receive payment from the service provider if the service is taken. Any payment that will be received by the agent or auctioneer will be confirmed to you in writing before services are taken. Services are optional.


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