5 bed detached house for sale

Meadow Walk, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5

A detached family home with five bedrooms and attractively presented interiors close to Harpenden Common.

Description
This attractive home, built in the late 2000s, with the inside and outside remodelled in 2015, offers excellent kerb appeal in one of Harpenden’s loveliest roads. The leafy setting is popular with families and the town centre and station are both just over half a mile, with a number of good schools within walking distance or a short drive. The house is spacious and well-appointed throughout, with a variety of reception areas making it a great choice for entertaining at home or spending time as a family. The interiors are modern and vibrant, with plenty of premium touches such as a wood-burning stove and engineered wood flooring in the sitting room, a stylish kitchen with range oven and a dining area lit from above by a roof lantern.

The layout is well planned and features a welcoming entrance hall leading to a family room at the front of the house, a cloakroom with WC, an open plan kitchen/dining area and a large sitting room – both the kitchen and dining area have bifold doors opening to the rear garden. The bedrooms are arranged across the first and second floors and include four good-size doubles (two en suite), a single bedroom and a family bathroom.

Externally the house looks superb from the road, with a flight of stone steps leading up to the front door, a pretty walled garden and a block-paved driveway providing access to the attached single garage which is fitted with a 1930s-style door. To the rear, the landscaped garden is perfect for entertaining, featuring a fabulous outdoor swimming pool (with automatic cover), a stone terrace for alfresco dining, an outdoor shower and a covered seating area. There are mature hedges around the boundary creating a high degree of privacy and pretty borders around the well-tended lawns.

Location
Meadow Walk enjoys a popular setting close to Harpenden Common, with good access to the town centre’s amenities, the station and well-regarded schools. Harpenden is an elegant and sophisticated market town with a bustling, leafy tree-lined high street, which features a comprehensive range of eateries, boutiques and shops including a Waitrose, Marks & Spencer Food Hall and a Sainsbury's supermarket. Harpenden offers a great choice of schools for all age groups with both state and private options.

For the commuter, Harpenden mainline station provides easy access to London St Pancras International from 22 minutes. Road communications are excellent with the M1 a short distance away which facilitates access to the M25 and the A1(M). For the international traveller, London Luton International airport is nine miles away, with London Heathrow accessible via the M1/M25.

Square Footage: 2,069 sq ft