2 bed semi-detached house for sale

Canterbury Road, Willesborough TN24

There are plenty of two-bedroom homes that make excellent first homes.

This one has something rather more interesting up its sleeve.

Yes, it's beautifully presented. Yes, it's spacious for a two-bedroom semi. Yes, you can move straight in without having to start making lists of what needs doing.

But then you discover there are two gardens.

And that's when things get interesting.

Let's start inside.

The hallway leads through to the kitchen and lounge diner, and both rooms are surprisingly generous for a two-bedroom home.

The kitchen is light and bright, with a large front-facing window and plenty of storage and preparation space. There's room to chop, cut, dice and actually leave the air fryer, kettle and toaster out without having to perform a daily game of kitchen Tetris.

In short, it's a good-sized kitchen that needs nothing doing to it other than anything you might want to change for personal taste.

Clean, practical and ready to use - that’s one less thing to think about when you move in.

The lounge diner has plenty of space for everything you need it to do.

The photographs might make it look a little smaller than it actually is, but there's a perfectly good reason for that.

That's a very large, very comfortable black sofa.

It makes everything around it look smaller than it is.

In reality, there's room for a sofa and chair, as well as a dining table and chairs, so you can have somewhere to relax and somewhere to eat without either feeling squeezed into the other.

And then, at the rear, there's the conservatory.

It's another one of those spaces that gives you options.

Use it as a breakfast or dining area. Create a home office. Make it a study. Somewhere to sit and enjoy the garden.

Yes, conservatories sometimes become the place where washing gets hung up in winter or where things are stored because nobody quite knows where else to put them.

But the point is, you have the choice - and having more usable space is rarely a bad thing.

Upstairs, there are two genuine double bedrooms, with built-in wardrobes to the front bedroom, together with a family-sized bathroom.

Everything is beautifully presented and ready to move into.

You could arrive with the boxes, unpack, order dinner and spend your first evening enjoying the house rather than cleaning it, decorating it or wondering which room needs doing first.

Outside is where the property really changes gear and separates itself from the crowd.

Immediately outside the conservatory is a courtyard-style garden facing south-east, so it enjoys plenty of sunshine throughout the day.

It's an easy place to sit with a coffee, catch the morning sun or simply enjoy some outside space without having to maintain acres of lawn.

It could also become a lovely entertaining space.

A barbecue, maybe a pizza oven - some planting around the edges.

But if it’s greenery you want then we need to step across the lane, where you'll find approximately 70ft of additional garden, complete with a substantial shed/outbuilding.

And suddenly, the possibilities multiply.

A garden room? Potentially, subject to the necessary permissions.

A workshop? Absolutely.

Additional parking or a driveway? Yes, subject to the relevant permissions and practical considerations.

An allotment? A proper vegetable garden?

Somewhere to build the sort of outdoor space you've always wanted but never had the room for?

That's the exciting bit.

Because most 2 bedroom homes give you a garden where it’s size dictates it usage

And in a world where so many houses are designed in very predictable ways, having a second piece of land that you can shape around the way you actually want to live is a pretty unusual thing to find - especially in a world where temperatures are rising and useable outside space is more in demand than ever before.

It's what elevates this from a lovely, beautifully finished two-bedroom home into something really exciting.

You get the house you can move straight into.

And you get the space to decide what comes next.

That's quite a combination.

If you're looking for your first home, this deserves a closer look.

Not because it's simply another two-bedroom semi.

But because it offers something that most of the others can't.

Come and see it for yourself. We'd love to show you around and talk through the possibilities.

EPC Rating: C

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