Detached house for sale in The Ridgeway, Stourport-On-Severn DY13

An excellent opportunity awaits to purchase this spacious and light family home situated in a highly regarded road where property rarely comes up for sale. The property boasts an open plan kitchen, a large through lounge, and a south-facing rear garden.

Description

This outstanding family home offers a spacious, light, and airy interior, along with a delightful, well-stocked south-facing rear garden. The ground floor features a user-friendly layout, including an open plan kitchen diner, perfect for contemporary living and entertaining. Additionally, there is a separate through lounge with doors leading to the garden.

On the first floor, you will find four generously sized bedrooms, consisting of three double rooms and a good-sized single room. These bedrooms are serviced by a fully tiled family bathroom.

Outside, the property also benefits from a substantial driveway at the front, capable of accommodating multiple vehicles. The rear garden completes the package, providing excellent quality outdoor space that offers privacy.

The property is approached by a neat block-paved driveway, providing ample parking space for multiple vehicles, including motorhomes and caravans.

Upon entering the property, you will find a porch accessible from the driveway, leading to the entrance hall through French doors. The hallway features stairs rising to the first floor, adorned with a new balustrade installed by the current owners. Additional features include an understairs storage cupboard, and doors leading to the living room and kitchen.

The living room is a fantastic space, abundant in natural light and welcoming to all. It stretches from the front to the back of the property, showcasing a magnificent open fireplace with an ornate cast iron surround as the focal point. This room also includes built-in bookshelves, a picture window at the front, and French doors leading to the garden.

The kitchen is equally spacious, extending from the front to the back of the house. It has been designed with an open-plan layout, catering to both cooking and living/dining in one area. The kitchen features matching white wall and base units, work surfaces with an inset sink drainer, a Range style oven with an extractor above, space and plumbing for a dishwasher, downlighters, and a pantry cupboard. The dining/living area is open plan and includes a window at the front, and doors leading to the cloakroom/WC and side lean-to.

The aforementioned lean-to is a useful area located at the side of the house, which can be utilised as a utility space. It includes a worktop, a sink with drainer, space and plumbing for appliances, and a doorway accessing a tool shed.

First floor
Moving to the first floor, you will find tastefully decorated accommodation accessed via a delightful gallery landing that could serve as a study area if desired. The landing features a loft hatch, and a window at the front with pleasant views.

The main bedroom is a spacious double room that bathes in light from a large picture window overlooking the rear garden.

Bedrooms two and three are similarly spacious and light-filled double rooms.

The fourth bedroom is a good-sized single room currently being utilised as a home office, offering pleasant views across the rooftops to nearby Stagborough Hill and Ribbesford Woods.

All the bedrooms are serviced by a well-proportioned bathroom, which features fully tiled walls and flooring, a chrome towel radiator, a panelled bath with a shower above, a pedestal washbasin, a low-level WC, and downlighters.

Gardens and grounds
A delightful south-facing garden beautifully complements this excellent property, showcasing a variety of lovely plants and trees, many of which have been added by the current owners to create a wonderful leafy outdoor space. This extremely private garden includes a paved patio housing a hot tub, a lawn with a pagoda and raised decking in one corner, and an array of specimen plants throughout, including Japanese acers, rhododendrons, rose bushes, and two apple trees, to name but a few.

Location

The Ridgeway, is one of the most desirable roads in Stourport-on-Severn, an area where properties rarely come up for sale. The quiet, no-through road is highly regarded for various reasons, particularly its direct access to the delightful Lickhill Memorial Park. This fantastic green space serves as a great asset, providing extensive recreational areas ideal for activities such as dog walking and football.

Stourport-on-Severn town centre and riverside are less than a mile away from this location and easily accessible on foot via Lickhill Park. The town offers an abundance of amenities for residents, including a wide range of interesting shops, numerous pubs and eateries, and several large supermarkets such as Tesco and Lidl. Notably, the town's riverside is renowned for its recreational meadows, providing lovely seating areas overlooking the river and miles of walking paths leading to Bewdley in one direction and Worcester in the other. At the heart of the town, you will find a superb canal basin, offering yet another serene and beautiful spot to enjoy.

Families with children are well catered for in the town, with good primary and senior schools available. Several schooling options are within walking distance of The Ridgeway, located on neighbouring Stagborough Way and Windermere Way.

Services

The property has mains gas, electricity, water and drainage. There is broadband available at this property.

Council tax band - D.

Fees

Reservation Fee - refundable on exchange

A reservation fee, refundable on exchange, is payable prior to the issue of the Memorandum of Sale and after which the property may be marked as Sold Subject to Contract. The fee will be reimbursed upon the successful Exchange of Contracts.

The fee will be retained by Andrew Grant in the event that you the buyer withdraws from the purchase or does not Exchange within 6 months of the fee being received other than for one or more of the following reasons:

1. Any significant material issues highlighted in a survey that were not evident or drawn to the attention of you the buyer prior to the Memorandum of Sale being issued.
2. Serious and material defect in the seller’s legal title.
3. Local search revealing a matter that has a material adverse effect on the market value of the property that was previously undeclared and not in the public domain.
4. The vendor withdrawing the property from sale.

The reservation fee levels are as follows:
An agreed offer under £500,000 will be £750 inclusive of vat
an agreed offer between £500,000 and £1,000,000 will be £2,000 inclusive of vat
all agreed offers over £1,000,000 will be £3,000 inclusive of vat

The reservation fee is payable upon acceptance by the vendor of an offer from a buyer and a positive completion of an assessment of the buyer’s financial status and ability to proceed.
Should a buyer’s financial position regarding the funding of the property prove to be fundamentally different from that declared by the buyer when the Memorandum of Sale was completed, then the Vendor has the right to withdraw from the sale and the reservation fee retained. For example, where the buyer declares themselves as a cash buyer but are in fact relying on an unsecured sale of their property.

Once the reservation fee has been paid, any renegotiation of the price stated in the memorandum of sale for any reason other than those covered in points 1 to 3 above will lead to the reservation fee being retained. A further fee will be levied on any subsequent reduced offer that is accepted by the vendor. This further fee will be subject to the same conditions that prevail for all reservation fees outlined above.