2 bed semi-detached house for sale

Kendal Park, Parks LA9

Plot 10 · House Type 4 · Central street

The southern half of the Type 4 pair with plot 9, as the plan is drawn, facing west with an east-facing garden. A 4.5-metre living room, dining kitchen and cloakroom downstairs, two bedrooms and the bathroom above, and two parking spaces.

A compact two-bedroom house with a living room of 4.5 metres to one side of the hall and a dining kitchen to the other, plus a cloakroom. Upstairs the principal bedroom is a large double at 4.56 by 3.79 metres, with a second bedroom and the bathroom. Well suited to a first home, a lock-up-and-leave base near the station, or an investment.

The smallest house on the site, planned for people who want a new home without a large one: A living room that takes a proper sofa, a kitchen with room to eat in, and a principal bedroom large enough for a king-size bed and wardrobes. Two parking spaces on the drive. For a first buyer, someone working from Kendal and travelling from Oxenholme, or an investor, it is hard to find better in a setting like this.
The specification


Every home at Kendal Park is built on a highly insulated timber frame. The elevations are faced in natural limestone and coloured render, and the roofs are natural slate. It is a method Stoneswood have refined over their previous schemes: The frame gives a warm, airtight, fast-drying structure; the stone and slate give the house its weight and its place in the landscape. Windows are composite, with aluminium bi-fold doors opening the living spaces onto the gardens and the view. Front doors are solid, with multipoint locking.

Heating is by air source heat pump. In the conventional houses, underfloor heating warms the ground floor, with radiators to the bedrooms. In the reverse-accommodation homes, the Type 5 and the Type 8s, underfloor heating is to the kitchen and the bathrooms, with radiators elsewhere. The homes are connected to mains water, electricity and drainage. The private street, open space and shared areas will be looked after by a management company, with an estate charge on each home.

Inside, the staircases are oak, with oak spindles or glass balustrades. Kitchens are chosen from a range of designs and fitted with granite worktops, a boiling-water tap and integrated appliances, usually Bosch or Neff. Bathrooms and en-suites come from a quality range with a choice of sanitaryware, and buyers select their tiling from the standard ranges. Reserve early enough and the choices are yours to make.
The builders


Stoneswood Homes build to a standard rather than to a volume, and it shows in every house they finish. Led by Neil Le Sage, the company has built many houses over the years across Cumbria and the Lake District, developments that sit easily in their surroundings and hold their value because of it: Stone where stone belongs, slate roofs, deep window reveals, oak inside, and a specification that does not need to be upgraded on the day you move in.

At Hackthorpe, between Penrith and Shap, Stoneswood built a scheme of houses and bungalows in local stone and render on the village edge with open views to the fells, sold through David Britton Estates and finished to a standard that buyers in this part of the world recognise and seek out. Swallows Rise at Sockbridge followed: The most exclusive private development they have built, a new road of luxury three-, four-, five- and six-bedroom homes looking out over the Lakeland fells towards Ullswater, and taken up before the scheme was complete.

Kendal Park is the natural next step: Stoneswood's first luxury development in South Lakeland, a different landscape, and the same approach. Stoneswood choose their ground carefully, usually on the edge of an established community with countryside beyond, and they build for the long term, with highly insulated timber frames behind traditional masonry and heating designed for the decades ahead. The homes are designed to be lived in for decades, by families and by those stepping down from larger houses who do not want to step down in quality.

The result is housing that looks as though it was always meant to be there, built by people who are proud to put their name to it.

Kendal: The town at the start of the lakes

Kendal has been the principal market town of south Westmorland since its charter in the twelfth century, and it still carries itself that way. Built in the pale limestone of the valley, it steps down both banks of the River Kent beneath the ruins of its castle, with a high street of independent shops, a weekly market, and a self-assurance that the resort villages further into the Lakes have long since traded away.

The cultural life is unusually rich for a town of its size. The Brewery Arts Centre runs theatre, cinema and live music year round; Abbot Hall and the Museum of Lakeland Life sit beside the river; and every November the Kendal Mountain Festival fills the town with climbers, film-makers and writers from around the world. There is a good spread of restaurants and pubs, a leisure centre, two supermarkets within easy reach of Kendal Park and Westmorland General Hospital a few minutes away.

The geography is what sets Kendal apart. It sits in the broad valley between two national parks. The Lake District begins eight miles to the west at Windermere, with Kentmere, Longsleddale and the Staveley valley closer still. The Yorkshire Dales begin a few miles east, where the Lune valley opens towards Sedbergh and the great green bulk of the Howgill Fells. Directly above the town, Scout Scar's limestone edge offers one of the finest short walks in the north of England, and from Kendal Park it forms the western horizon.

For those who want the fells but not the full price of living inside the national park, Kendal has always been the sensible answer. It has the schools, the station, the hospital and the shops, and it has the hills in every direction.
Reserving


Kendal Park is being sold exclusively through David Britton Estates. Phase one, plots 2 to 17, is released now and available to reserve off plan, with completion expected within the coming year, and phase two will follow with prices released nearer the time; reserving early secures the plot of your choice and, where the build programme allows, your choice of kitchen, bathroom and tiling from the standard ranges.
Ground floor

Hall
Living 3.49 × 4.50 m (11'5" × 14'9")
Kitchen / dining 3.13 × 3.28 m (10'3" × 10'9")
WC
first floor

Bedroom 1 4.56 × 3.79 m (15'0" × 12'5")
Bedroom 2 2.23 × 4.00 m (7'4" × 13'1")
Bathroom 2.20 × 1.84 m (7'3" × 6'0")

Overall external dimensions 5.12 × 8.70 m (16'10" × 28'7"). Floor area 783 sq ft (72.7 m²), gross internal from the architect's drawings, excluding garage.

Services: Air source heat pump with underfloor heating to the living floor

These particulars are intended to give a fair and accurate description of the property but their accuracy is not guaranteed and they do not constitute or form part of an offer or contract. All measurements are approximate. None of the services, appliances or fittings have been tested by David Britton Estates and prospective purchasers should satisfy themselves as to their condition by inspection or through their own advisers. No person in the employment of David Britton Estates has authority to make or give any representation or warranty whatever in relation to this property. Some images may have been digitally enhanced for marketing purposes and may not fully reflect the property's current appearance.