Herons Wood House, Ashton With Stodday, Lancaster, LA2 0AJ - Matthews Benjamin

The best of both worlds; an extensive detached house in a rural location offering great countryside views whilst being convenient for both the motorway and city centre services.

Built in the mid 1950s with later extensions and adaptations, accommodation is generously proportioned, naturally well lit by the south westerly orientation and offers an entrance porch, hall with cloakroom, dining kitchen, storage room and garage (now internally subdivided into two rooms), office, rear porch/boot room and an L shaped dining room open to the sitting room. Off the landing is a deep coats cupboard, main bedroom with ensuite shower room, three further double bedrooms with house bathroom and house shower room.

Lancaster is a vibrant Heritage City, known for its Georgian architecture, lively cultural scene, and year-round events. It enjoys a wealth of bars, restaurants, independent and high street shops, a twice-weekly market and comprehensive professional services. The universities and hospitals are easily accessible from the south side of the city. Lancaster’s mainline station provides regular services to Preston, Manchester, Manchester airport, London Euston and Edinburgh.

Surrounded by beautiful countryside, the area offers superb walking and cycling from the doorstep, with the Lune Valley, the Protected National Landscapes of the Forest of Bowland, Arnside & Silverdale, and the National Parks of the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales all within easy reach for day trips.

The drive to the property is private and leads to a generous parking area in front of the house with a gated entrance to the camping field.

In front of the dining area is a sunny seating terrace with steps down to the large lawn providing plenty of opportunity for recreation as well as growing your own fruit and veg with the small orchard, vegetable plots and poly tunnel. A small copse of trees sits in the southern most corner of the plot and houses a large wooden shed, a super workshop with power, light and a workbench. The trees also provide screening for a working area within the garden and tucked away composting.

There are two generous outdoor stores, one is timber with a slated roof and vented sides ideally suited to storing firewood. The second is a lockable tool and mower store, timber built under a felted roof with power and nearby water supply.

An unexpected feature of the property is the outdoor pool, unheated it is currently in use spring to autumn. At just over 10m long it has a graduated depth of around 1m to 2m (4 ft to 7 ft) and a surrounding paved seating area. It nestles in a sheltered sun trap with an adjacent shed that houses the pump and filtration system.

Mains electricity and water. Oil fired central heating from a Worcester boiler in the back porch. Heating controllable through the NEST App. Underfloor heating in the house bathroom. Heated towel rails in the house bath and shower rooms.

Domestic hot water from the central heating boiler, an immersion heater and 24 solar panels which feed electricity back to the grid. Drainage to a sole use septic tank located in the field.

Fitted carpets, curtains, curtain poles, blinds, light fittings and domestic appliances as follows: Belling electric range cooker with fan over and Beko dishwasher. All free-standing domestic appliances are excluded from the sale.

Due to the Money Laundering Regulations, now officially known as Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds Regulations 2017 we are required to follow government legislation and carry out identification checks on all purchasers. We use a specialist third party company to conduct these checks at a charge of £48 inclusive of VAT per buyer once an offer has been accepted and you will be unable to proceed with the purchase of the property until these checks have been carried out. This charge is non-refundable.

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