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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011 worcesternews.co.uk/homes
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AN attractive two bedroom link detached bungalow, 15 Peachley Gardens is in a quiet cul-de-sac at Lower Broadheath, near Worcester. It has a hallway, a lounge, a dining room, a fitted kitchen, a dining area and a conservatory with french doors to the garden. There are two double bedrooms the master has fitted wardrobes a bathroom and a shower room. The garage has been partially converted to create a separate utility area and outside are gardens and a block paved driveway.
RESIDENTIAL Allan Morris.................................. 24-25 Andrew Grant............................... 26-31 Connells....................................... 16 Fisher German John Sanders.......... 36-39 G Herbert Banks........................... 13 Griffiths & Charles......................... 21 Halls............................................. 32-34 Hills Estate Agents......................... 19 Knight Frank.................................. 1-5 Michael Tuck................................. 8 Nicol & Co.................................... 20 Parkinson Wright........................... 9 Philip Laney & Jolly........................ 12 RA Bennett................................... 10-11 Reeds Rains.................................. 22-23 Shelton & Lines............................. 7 The Property Centre..................... 35 Town & Country Property Services.. 14-15 Your Move.................................... 18
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SITUATED on the Warndon Villages development in Worcester is 5 Stanage Close. The three bedroom detached house is in the Long Meadow area and has all that is expected of a modern property. Double glazing and gas fired central heating have been installed throughout and there is a garage as well as off-road parking. On the ground floor the accommodation includes an entrance hall, a lounge with oak flooring and a feature fireplace, a study area with oak flooring, a lavatory, a fitted breakfast kitchen with wood effect roll top work surfaces and double glazed french doors that lead through to a conservatory. Upstairs can be found all three of the bedrooms together with a family bathroom. The master bedroom comes with fitted wardrobes, sliding mirror doors
MODERN DETACHED: Stanage Close, Long Meadow, Warndon Villages, Worcester, has three bedrooms.
COUNTRY LIFE: Cottage with room for the horses. Page 20.
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PRICE: 250,000 AGENT: RA BENNETT & PARTNERS CALL: 01905 23344
and an en-suite shower room. At the front of 5 Stanage Close is a driveway that leads to the garage and block paving on the side allows additional parking. At the rear of the house is a raised area of decking with steps down to a lawn.
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MODERN DETACHED: 12 Leven Drive, St Peters, Worcester, has four bedrooms the master bedroom has built-in wardobes and an en suite shower room.
style unit. The fitted kitchen has built-in units and appliances and beyond is a utility. On the first floor are four bedrooms the master has a walkin wardrobe and an en suite shower room plus a family bathroom. Two more bedrooms also have built-in wardrobes. At the front the house is a garage and off-road parking on a drive, while at the rear is a paved patio with a lawned garden and flower and shrub borders. A gate and paved path lead to the front.
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PRICE: 229,950 AGENT: ANDREW GRANT CALL: 01905 734735
Number 47 Dace Road is a fine family home. Detached, on the ground floor the layout includes an entrance hall, a cloakroom, a sitting room, a kitchen and a utility. Upstairs, the master bedroom has an en suite, there are three more bedrooms and a bathroom. Outside, the house has gardens at the front and the rear, offroad parking and a car port
With full block paving at the front giving parking for up to five medium-sized cars, 52 Grasshopper Avenue is an attractive family home. The accommodation includes a reception hall with a cloakroom, a sitting room, a fitted dining kitchen and a double glazed door to a conservatory. On the first floor, the master bedroom has an en-suite. There are two further bedrooms and a family bathroom. The property also benefits from gas fired central heating, double glazing and a garage. A gated side access leads to an enclosed rear garden with a sun terrace and steps lead to a lawn, an attractive decked terrace enclosed by fencing and mature flower borders. PRICE 215,000; AGENT CONNELLS; CALL 01905 611411
A three bedroom detached family house which has had a garage conversion to create a useful playroom or study and a utility, 4 Slimbridge Close is in a cul-de-sac close to shops. The accommodation on the ground floor includes a hall, a sitting room and a kitchen/dining room. Upstairs are the bedrooms and a new fitted bathroom. Although the garage has been converted, it could easily be restored to its original use if required. UPVC double glazing and gas central heating have been installed and the house has off-road parking for one vehicle. Outside is a patio, a lawn, flower and shrub borders, maturing trees and there is space for a shed. PRICE 189,950; AGENT GRIFFITHS & CHARLES; CALL 01905 726464
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be found in the Hanbury Park area of Worcester. The accommodation comprises an entrance hall, a sitting room, a dining room, a breakfast kitchen, a utility room, a downstairs cloakroom a study and an office. On the first floor is a master bedroom with an en suite shower room, three further bedrooms and a family bathroom. The property has a large driveway that provides parking at the front for several vehicles and there is also a single garage. At the rear of the house is a delightful private garden.
DETACHED WITHfourPRIVATE GARDEN family home, 24 Priory Road can A bedroom detached A well presented
CONTEMPORARY: Smallwoods, Perrymill Lane, Bradley Green, near Droitwich, is a stunning home.
detached double garage. Adjacent to the house with its own entrance and drive is a detached two-storey barn. Inside are versatile rooms arranged over two floors and currently they are used as a workshop, storage and a utility space but they are able to offer an excellent range of domestic, leisure or other uses. The gardens at Smallwoods provide a parkland backdrop to the house. There are sculpted level lawns, block paved paths and walks interspersed with specimen plantings, rockeries and terraces, all enjoying a magnificent outlook over fields to the north Worcesterhire countryside beyond.
BUYERS INFO
PRICE: 995,000 AGENT: ANDREW GRANT CALL: 01905 734735
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PRICE: 450,000 AGENT: HALLS CALL: 01905 611066
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HORSES AND HOME: Myrtle Cottage at Welland, near Malvern, has interconnecting paddocks and a menage.
double detached timber framed garage. Immediately adjoining the rear of the cottage is an attractive landscaped garden with level lawns that lead down to a haha from which there are views over adjoining paddocks. A stone paved terrace provides a sitting area and a five bar gate leads into extensive yard areas where there are various outbuildings and facilities. Myrtle Cottage also has a detached block built stable with timber cladding, three loose boxes, a covered concrete canopy, a covered open sided horse shower, a feed store and secure tack room. The menage covers 30 metres and is enclosed by rail fencing and has a silicone, sand and rubber surface. There is also a new steel portal barn on concrete walls and base with galvanised gated partitions set up for lambing. The property has three large interconnecting paddocks with five bar gates, enclosed by a combination of post and rail and stock proof wire fencing and hedging. Around the building is a large yard/hard standing area that is ideal for storing equipment or even for use as a small business.
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PRICE: 615,000 AGENT: FISHER GERMAN JOHN SANDERS CALL: 01905 726220
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FILLED WITH CHARACTER: Kingswood, Stanford Bridge, near Tenbury Wells, has four bedrooms, gardens, an orchard and wonderful views.
Kingswood Farm has a lawned garden with a raised sun terrace and pretty flower and shrub borders. The rear of the property features a paved area with a potting shed and sloping lawned gardens together with an orchard. There are two fenced paddocks with water troughs covering nearly seven acres.
BUYERS INFO
PRICE: 485,000. WITHOUT PADDOCKS, 450,000 AGENT: HALLS CALL: 01905 611066
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discounted price. Any subsequent losses will be less important that the sales they have achieved during a particularly difficult time in the market. Some critics of shared equity schemes, including FirstBuy, have said they could leave homebuyers badly exposed if house prices fell much further. But Stewart Baseley, executive chairman of the Home Builders Federation, believes any move to sell loans would be sensible. He said: Over the last three years home builders faced with the toughest environment for decades have maintained jobs and economic activity while helping close to 30,000 first-time buyers into home ownership. The investment by builders has amounted to 1 billion and its a sensible move for developers to investigate selling their loan books and freeing up cash to build the homes needed to tackle the housing crisis.
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BUY AN APARTMENT: Taylor Wimpey is helping first-time buyers at its Diglis Water development in Worcester.
perfect first home? Using the Easystart scheme at Diglis Water, a one bedroom Quayside apartment originally selling for 144,495, can be yours for 123,246 with a 6,162 deposit. A two bedroom Malvern apartment originally selling for 169,995, can be snapped up for as little at 144,496 with a 7,225 deposit. Diglis Water, which has won an NHBC Quality Award and a Seal of Excellence Award, is situated where the Birmingham and Worcester canal meets the River Severn and has breathed new life into Worcesters riverside. Currently available is a range of stunning one and two bedroom apartments, three bedroom penthouses and four bedroom townhouses. Prices currently start at 123,246 for a one bedroom apartment, 219,995 for a four bedroom townhouse and from 419,995 for a three bedroom penthouse with stunning views over Worcester. For more information on the apartments and financial incentives available, visit Diglis Water in Diglis Dock Road, telephone 0845 6724033 between 10am and 5pm or go to taylorwimpey.co.uk/diglis.
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Farm sales top prices
ANOTHER successful monthly collective auction held by Halls at the Gallops, Stanklyn Lane, Stone, near Kidderminster, attracted a large crowd and a wide range of entries. The farm implements and machinery sections saw the best prices of the day, peaking at 4,600 for a Wrag Commander post bumper. Other leading prices were 4,500 for a Opico vari-tilth and discs; 1,950 for a 120KVA generator and 820 for a Bomford Bandit flail mower. Tractor sales included a Jinma 204 tractor at 1,800; a Collins Forklift at 1,700 and a Fordson Power Major at 1,300. There was the usual high volume of entries in the trailer section with those made by Ifor William making the top prices. A 16ft Ifor Williams trailer sold 1,500; an Ifor Williams cage sided trailer and another trailer with ramps both sold for 800. There were also a number of caravans and among them an Abbey GTS 212 made 700. The vehicles section saw a Peugeot 206 go for 950; an 01 plate Ford Ranger made 2,100; an 05 plate Ford Focus sold for 2,620 and an 03 plate Nissan Cabstar went for 2,500.
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HE rituals of the English tea table developed in the mid 18th century. This was when tea became cheap enough to be purchased by middle class families and they needed attractive china to complement what was, for many, a novelty beverage. Earthenware crockery had been made at Broseley, Shropshire, for many years but, in the early 1770s Thomas Turner, a freeman of the city of Worcester, who had worked as a journeyman for its successful pottery, began to produce soft paste porcelain on the Caughley site. In 1775 an advertisement for Salopian porcelain stated that the manufactory near Bridgnorth is now quite complete. Lately we saw some of their production which in colour and fineness are truly elegant and beautiful and have the bright and lovely white of the much extolled Oriental. Chinese porcelain was highly prized in the 18th century leading Turner to create tableware and decorative pieces in imitation of the originals. French porcelain was also admired but, until 1787 it attracted high import duties resulting in a Caughley production of imitative and sophisticated gilded polychrome wares. Not all the porcelain was decorated on site as the factory also sold pieces in the white to Worcester whose Chamberlain factory decorated Caughley is now much admired. Though the name Caughley (pronounced Calf-lee) is not as famous as Spode or Wedgewood, experts now believe that the firm was probably the most productive source of European porcelain in the 1780s as the ceramics were directed at a competitive low price rather than superb quality. Although Caughley was collected in the 19th century the importance of the factory was not fully recognised because the work was not stamped or impressed with the factory name and there are no known surviving pattern books or factory records. Much of the current knowledge rests on the results of excavations at the factory site that revealed shapes and designs that had been wrongly attributed to other factories. These discoveries led to a surge of interest in the 1960s. The question of attribution fascinated the new and more analytical type of collector typified by Ronald Sillito, a Shropshire man who began purchasing table and toy wares from dealers and sales
Prized collection will be sold at Brightwells Easters Court saleroom in Leominster later this month
SELECTION: Some of the Caughley pieces that are to be auctioned at Brightwells Easters Court sales room in Leominster, later this month.
FAMOUS NAME: Left, a Caughley egg drainer and right, a dragon pattern polychrome plate. Both are in the sale.
across the country. Mr Sillito, who grew up in Market Drayton, served in the Royal Signals during the Second World War. A graduate in chemistry from Swansea University, his working life was spent as a chemical engineer for Shell but he also painted in watercolours and collected china partly for relaxation. His study of Caughley became for him an area of academic research but he was also interested in the financial value of the items and constructed graphs of the investment potential of individual examples. He retired to Raglan, near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, in 1990 where his collection was displayed in cabinets around his home. On September 28 Brightwells of Leominster will auction the porcelain that was on display in Raglan and another section of the collection that was in store having been dispersed a few years ago. The pieces, mainly blue and white, include pickle and asparagus dishes, coffee pots, jugs, sauceboats and mugs in several sizes as well as a variety of toy wares small pieces that are too large for dolls houses but too small for children to eat from. Included in the Sillito collection is a part coffee set, tea bowls and saucers, platters and jugs in several sizes and some pieces from a polychrome tea set most of which will be sold separately. In 1799, partly because of ill health, the leases of the Caughley Porcelain Works were assigned to Coalport. The remaining wares were auctioned with the Caughley site finally closing in 1814. A bicentenary exhibition of Caughley porcelain was held in 1999 at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum and included many pieces from the Sillito Collection. In 2005 a seminal exhibition was held at Ironbridge with Sillito contributing a section on decorator marks an area that has always aroused controversy. Sillitos section reveals his scientific and analytical approach to his chosen collecting field with marks both measured and tabulated. Over the years various theories have been advanced regarding the marks on Caughley but he concluded: The various marks were tally marks and in a very few instances they were signatures. However, who was responsible for Caughley polychrome painting and how much was really done at Caughley has remained unanswered. It is this continual questioning that whets the appetites of researchers and collectors and ensures the place of Caughley in the development of English porcelain. For catalogues, telephone 01568 611122.
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BUYING AND THEN LETTING: With interest rates so low and the stock markets in such a volatile state, investing in property seems to be a very sensible option.
researching property law will give you peace of mind should you be presented with a legal situation. Mr Slawson said: I would encourage anyone who is in a position to do so to consider purchasing a property to rent. Despite the horror stories, if you buy the right property and use a good lettings agency, buy-to-let can be a relatively hassle-free investment strategy. If youd like some more information on how to take the initial step to becoming a first-time landlord visit Belvoir Lettings for some free, and impartial advice.
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LANDLORD Assist, the nationwide tenant eviction and rent collection firm, is urging landlords to carry out regular testing on electrical equipment in rented properties. Every year more than 30 people are killed due to faulty electrics in Britain and according to government figures almost 60 per cent of all accidental fires in UK homes are caused by faulty or misused electrical appliances. For landlords it is important that they carry out regular checks on electrical equipment as rented properties tend to receive more damage through general wear and tear. The number of electrical appliances in rented accommodation has risen over the last few years as landlords try to target young people and professionals with modern furnishings and appliances. Subsequently, portable appliance testing (PAT) has
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