6 bed detached house for sale

Carisbrooke Road, Knighton, Leicester LE2

Substantial detached family home offering flexible accommodation across three floors, including four reception rooms, an open-plan living kitchen, five bedrooms plus ground floor bedroom, and a generous garden with driveway parking. This substantial detached family home offers generous and flexible accommodation arranged over three floors, set within a well-established residential location.

The ground floor opens with an entrance porch leading into a welcoming hallway with a staircase and useful understairs storage. There is a ground floor WC and four versatile reception spaces, including a formal dining room with feature inglenook fireplace, a comfortable sitting room with gas fire, a spacious family room opening onto the rear garden, and a further large reception currently used as a ground floor bedroom, complete with ensuite shower room and exposed beams.

The heart of the home is the open-plan living, kitchen dining room, fitted with traditional-style units, Corian worktops, a Rangemaster cooker, breakfast bar and integrated dishwasher. This space flows into the family room via folding doors, making it well-suited to everyday living and entertaining. A separate utility room and additional WC complete the ground floor.

On the first floor are four bedrooms, including a generously sized bedroom with an ensuite shower room, alongside a family bathroom featuring a roll-top freestanding bath and separate shower enclosure. Stairs lead to the second floor, where the loft conversion provides a spacious main bedroom with a Juliet balcony and its own ensuite shower room.

Outside, the rear garden offers a combination of patio, lawn, mature planting and a raised decked area leading to an outhouse with power, lighting and plumbing for a shower room and WC, suitable for gym or storage use. To the front is a lawned garden with mature shrubs, along with a block-paved driveway and carport providing off-road parking.

EPC Rating: D

Entrance Porch

With tiled flooring and an internal door to the entrance hall.

Ground Floor WC

With double glazed window to the side elevation, a low-level WC, a wash hand basin, tiled walls, tiled flooring and an extractor fan.

Entrance Hall

With stairs to the first floor, coving to the ceiling, an understairs storage cupboard and a radiator

Reception One / Formal Dining Room (4.66m x 3.65m)

With double glazed bay window to the front elevation with window shutters, two further double-glazed windows to the side elevation, a feature walk-in inglenook style fireplace with decorative wooden fire surround and tiled insert, including wooden panelling, fitted seat box/storage, plate rails, picture rails, wall lights, and radiator

Reception Room Two / Sitting Room (4.60m x 4.26m)

With double-glazed windows to the side and rear elevations, a chimney breast with a feature living flame effect gas fire and limestone style fire surround, a granite insert and a hearth. Recessed display shelving, bespoke fitted display shelving with storage cupboards below, coving to the ceiling, wall lights, and a radiator

Open Plan Living Kitchen Dining Room (6.18m x 5.70m)

(narrowing to 2.52m)
Kitchen area: Features a double-glazed window to the front elevation with window shutters, sink and drainer with a range of traditional style wall and base units with Corian worktops over, breakfast bar, a Rangemaster cooker with chimney hood over, built-in dishwasher, space for fridge freezer, coving to ceiling, inset ceiling spotlights, limestone style tiled floor.

Dining Area: With limestone-style tiled flooring, coving to the ceiling, a radiator, and folding doors to the family room. Access to a lobby area with a shelved storage cupboard and access to WC / utility room

Reception Room Three / Family Room (5.79m x 4.54m)

With double-glazed windows to the rear elevation with window shutters, a double-glazed door to the rear garden, an electric fire with limestone-style fire surround, coving to the ceiling, inset ceiling spotlights, and two radiators

Reception Room Four / Ground Floor Bedroom Six (8.70m x 3.59m)

(Narrowing to 4.96m) With double-glazed windows to the rear and side elevations, high ceilings with feature exposed roof beams, a built-in wardrobe and storage cupboards, recessed display shelving, access to loft storage, inset ceiling spotlights, and a radiator.

En-Suite Shower Room (2.92m x 1.70m)

With a double shower enclosure with chrome mixer shower, partly tiled walls, a wash hand basin, vanity cupboard with shelving below, low level WC, partly tiled walls, limestone-style tiled flooring, inset ceiling spotlights, extractor fan, heated chrome towel rail, and a radiator.

Utility Room (3.20m x 1.24m)

With double glazed Velux skylight window and door to the front elevation, a wall-mounted boiler, a Belfast sink, utility cupboards, and a limestone-style tiled floor.

WC (149.00m x 1.34m)

With a double-glazed Velux skylight window, a wash hand basin with vanity top, a low-level WC, limestone tiled flooring and a radiator.

First Floor Landing

Features a double-glazed window to the front elevation with window shutters, coving to the ceiling, and stairs to the loft conversion.

Bedroom Two (4.87m x 4.17m)

(narrowing to 3.59) With a double-glazed window to the side elevation with window shutters, twin built-in double wardrobes, coving to the ceiling, and a radiator.

En-Suite Shower Room (2.74m x 1.12m)

With a shower enclosure featuring a chrome mixer shower, a wash hand basin with mixer tap and granite-style worktop, vanity shelving below, partly tiled walls, inset ceiling downlighters, and a heated chrome towel rail.

Bedroom Three (3.84m x 3.65m)

Features a double-glazed bay window to the front elevation with window shutters, built-in wardrobes, coving to the ceiling, and a radiator.

Bedroom Four (3.16m x 2.40m)

With a double-glazed window to the side elevation with window shutters, wardrobe and a radiator.

Bedroom Five (3.20m x 2.11m)

Features a double-glazed window to the rear elevation with window shutters, a built-in wardrobe, and a radiator.

Family Bathroom (2.92m x 2.74m)

With a double-glazed window to the front elevation with window shutters, a roll-top free-standing bath with mixer tap, a low-level WC, a separate double shower cubicle with chrome mixer shower, inset ceiling spotlights, coving to the ceiling, tiled walls, a heated chrome towel rail, and a radiator.

Bedroom One / Loft Conversion (7.11m x 3.37m)

With double-glazed French doors to a Juliet balcony on the rear elevation. Includes inset ceiling spotlights, built-in cupboards, a double-glazed window to the rear elevation, and a radiator.

En-Suite Shower Room

Features a double-glazed window to the rear elevation, a walk-in tiled shower cubicle with an overhead rainfall shower, a wash hand basin, and a low-level WC, tiled flooring, a heated towel rail, and inset ceiling spotlights.

Rear Garden

Includes a paved patio to the rear and side, with steps leading up to a mainly lawned rear garden with mature shrubs and trees to the borders, fencing to the perimeter, a raised decked area leading to an outhouse providing a useful gym and storage area with plumbing for a shower room and WC, as well as power and lighting.

Parking - Driveway

Block paved driveway.

Parking - Car Port

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