4 bedroom terraced house for sale

Location

Miles’s Buildings is situated in the very heart of Bath. In a tucked away position between George Street and Alfred Street and a short distance from the Assembly Rooms and The Circus. The home is ideally positioned for the City Centre amenities, as well as The Royal Victoria Park and its botanical gardens. The city of Bath offers a vast array of cultural, leisure and shopping facilities including some excellent restaurants, the Theatre Royal, Bath Abbey and the world famous Thermae Spa. For commuters, the city is conveniently positioned for the M4 via Junction 18, lying 10 miles to the north with London (Paddington) accessible fromBath Spa Station, journey time taking approximately 90 minutes. Educational facilities include five independent schools and two universities.

Description

The handsome Grade II listed Georgian terrace of Miles’s Buildings was designed by John Wood the Younger circa 1768 and offers a fine example of classic Georgian architectural splendour. No. 11, built with dressed stone elevations beneath a tiled roof lies to the north end of the terrace. The accommodation is arranged over five floors with reception rooms to the garden level, ground floor and first floor levels and the bedrooms and bathrooms arranged over the second and third floors. The property enjoys a number of period features to include exposed wooden floors, open fireplaces, some with cast iron inserts, sash windows with working shutters, ornate cornicing, flagstones and wooden panelled doors. The home offers a degree of flexibility in its accommodation arrangement as additionally there is a shower room to the lower ground floor. The heart of the home is very much in the kitchen, where a bespoke hand built kitchen centres around a large blue Aga with four ovens, double hob and hot plate. The property retains its first floor drawing room, which overlooks the pretty enclosed
garden. To the second and third fl oors are the bedrooms, each are double and both benefitting from bathrooms. On the ground floor there are two reception rooms, as well as a further reception room on the first floor. These offer a degree of flexibility within their use and enjoy East West facing elevation.

Outside, the property benefits from a delightful walled garden to the rear and offers privacy with a wide variety of mature plants, shrubs and trees. There is a paved lower terrace immediately leading off the back of the house with steps up to a further terraced area with flower beds and enjoys more of the later afternoon sunshine. There is a small wooden garden store, outside tap and side access to the garden via a timber gate and small flight of steps.