5 bed detached house for sale

Black Boy Wood, St. Albans AL2

A very well positioned, appointed and presented 5-bedroom, 2-bathroom detached family home, built in 2003, located within just 3 minutes’ walk of rail links into London Euston, St Pancras & Blackfriars via Watford Junction & St Albans City. Surrounded by lovely country walks, and a wonderful community, Bricket Wood is a great place to bring up a family with its peaceful village feel and yet close enough to local amenities including excellent schools and nurseries, rail links into Watford and St Albans, bus links into Central London as well as Radlett and Borehamwood, a doctors surgery, pharmacy, some excellent pubs (The Old Fox, The Gate, The Black Boy), the Bricket Wood Cafe and the Tea Rooms at Bricket Wood station. All in all, a lovely place to live.

This 2350 sq ft detached family home comprises of entrance porch with electronic entry phone, hallway with coats cupboard, living room, dining room, reading room, fitted kitchen with breakfast bar, utility room and guest cloakroom/WC on the ground floor. Moving to the first floor there are four double bedrooms and a family bathroom off landing. The main bedroom has its own en-suite shower/WC, recently refurbished, as well as doors out onto a rear facing balcony (see nb below).

The top floor features a spacious 30ft room with triple aspect windows and plenty of eaves storage space plus there is the possibility of adding a 3rd bathroom. It is currently set up as a 5th bedroom but would make a very handy playroom, office or gym.

Outside the 46' South-East facing rear garden has been landscaped with 2 patios, an Astroturf lawn and mature shrubs and at the back of the garden the current owners have erected a bar. There is also side access to the front of the house.

To the front there is an integrated single garage, with potential for conversion to further accommodation, and a driveway which provides off street parking for 2 cars as well having an easement to park further vehicles on a piece of land in front of the house.

Nb. The balcony off the main bedroom, built by the previous owners, doesn't currently have planning but it does have an indemnity policy in place - retrospective planning could be sought.

Ref MN1282