Yahoo Finance Property: 8 high street homes with amenities on tap
If you want to live in the heart of your community and not have to worry about getting the car out every time you need a pint of milk, how about finding a home on a high street? Whether you’d prefer a city, town or the gentler pace of village life, choose from this round up of centrally-located properties for sale.
1. Ludlow, Shropshire, £325,000
The perfect pad for foodies, this grade II listed cottage is moments from the many restaurants, cafes, delis, butchers, bakers and other independent businesses lining the medieval high street. Includes a freshly renovated kitchen, a sitting room, two double bedrooms, a bathroom and loft space that could be converted into another room, plus original fireplaces, sash windows and exposed timber floorboards. Get in touch with Strutt & Parker.
2. Middleton-in-Teesdale, Barnard Castle, County Durham, offers over £350,000
Detective skills aren’t required to deduce that Barclays Bank House used to be part of a bank, now converted into a spacious home in the midst of a bustling market town. Accessed via a stairs leading up from a street entrance at ground level, the accommodation’s spread over two upper floors, with a kitchen/dining room, sitting room, utility, shower room, study/bedroom and terrace on the first floor, and two more bedrooms and a large bathroom with a freestanding tub on the second. There’s also a walled garden and garage. Through Finest Properties.
3. The Picturehouse, Redhill, Surrey, from £369,950
So-called because it’s on a site previously occupied by a cinema, this new apartment scheme is just across the road from the high street and The Belfry shopping mall, and right next to the station. Only three homes are left unsold, each ready to move into and featuring two double bedrooms, two bathrooms, and an open plan kitchen/living/dining room opening onto a balcony. Movie buffs will be pleased to learn that a new entertainment complex housing a cinema recently opened in the town centre. Via Crest Nicholson.
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4. Colerne, Wiltshire, £475,000
This three-bedroom, four-storey Grade II listed house is in a Cotswolds village well-served by shops, pubs and a primary school and only seven miles from Bath. In immaculate condition, it’s been completely renovated by the current owners and includes a basement living room with a vaulted stone ceiling, a log burner and island in the contemporary kitchen, and a bedroom with a vaulted, beamed ceiling in the converted loft. Find out more from Purplebricks.
5. Auchtermuchty, Cupar, Fife, offers over £750,000
Despite its very handy location on the edge of the high street, B-listed Lomond House is very private as it sits behind a high wall in nearly an acre of land. This former manse is also rather big, stretching to almost 4,000 square feet and including a bay-windowed drawing room, a dual-aspect family room, a kitchen/breakfast room, dining room and office and plenty of period features. Upstairs are five bedrooms, three bathrooms and a boarded loft, and the stable block has been converted into a four-car garage. On the market via Knight Frank.
6. Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, £1.5m
Old Mill Cottage enjoys an exceptionally scenic and convenient setting, as it backs on to the Grand Union canal and is moments from Berkhamsted’s historic high street, which is packed with mostly independent shops, cafes and pubs. Once part of the town’s corn mill, the recently modernised house has a bright, open plan kitchen/living/dining room with French doors into the garden, a dual-aspect sitting room, four bedrooms – all with views of the canal or the River Bulborne – two bathrooms and a cabin used as a home office. Via Nash Partnership.
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7. Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, £1.7m
Its name – The Green Dragon – is the only clue that this beautifully converted four-bedroom house was once a pub. Dating from the 18th century, it’s within the conservation area of a large village that feels more like a town, with restaurants, a parade of shops, several pubs where you can still buy a pint, and three primary schools. The kitchen/breakfast room and adjoining dining room both have vaulted ceilings with exposed beams, and there’s a formal drawing room and a wonderful multi-purpose room with wraparound floor-to-ceiling doors that could be transformed into a family room or entertainment area. For more details contact Fisher German.
8. Marylebone, London, £1.99m
A luxury two-bed apartment on Marylebone High Street, at the hub of a bustling central London village filled with upmarket boutiques, coffee shops and restaurants. This fully renovated second floor home is accessed via a lift and comprises a through kitchen/living/dining room, two double bedrooms with built-in wardrobes and silk carpets and a bathroom, all professionally interior designed and finished to an extremely high standard. From Dexters.
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