Worcester Property News 17/03/2011

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INDEX
AUCTIONS.................................. 43
CLASSIFIEDS.............................. 43
NEW HOMES.............................. 42
RESIDENTIAL
Allan Morris.................................. 2-3
Andrew Grant.............................. 24-30
Carver Knowles............................ 20
Cawley......................................... 14-15
DETACHED: 40 Deer Avenue is at Connells....................................... 10
St Peter’s, just south of Worcester. Griffiths & Charles......................... 8-9
G Herbert Banks........................... 20
Plenty of
Halls............................................. 6-7
Hayles Sales & Lettings................... 32-33
Hills Estate Agents......................... 5
space to
John Goodwin.............................. 38-40
John Sanders................................. 34-35
Knight Frank.................................. 36-37
Michael Tuck................................. 13
park here Parkinson Wright..........................

Philip Laney & Jolly........................
Platinum.......................................
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Reeds Rains.................................. 18-19
ON the southern outskirts of
The Property Centre..................... 22-23
Worcester at St Peter’s is number
Town & Country Property Services.. 16-17
40 Deer Avenue.
Waterfords................................... 41
This detached modern house
LOTS TO SEE HERE: 2 The Hill, Abberley, near Worcester, has three bedrooms and panoramic country views. Your Move.................................... 12
Rooms with a view

has three bedrooms, a refitted
shower room and an en-suite, a
kitchen/diner, a sitting room with
LETTINGS
a bay window, a utility and a
Allan Morris Lettings..................... 48
downstairs lavatory.
Andrew Grant Lettings.................. 56
There is gas fired central Belvoir!......................................... 44
heating, double glazing, a Griffiths & Charles......................... 50
driveway with parking for several G Herbert Banks........................... 45
WITH panoramic country views timber worktops, patio doors to bedrooms – all with wardrobes – Hills Estate Agents......................... 49
vehicles and a garage. 2 The Hill is a 1970s’ built house on the rear garden and there is also a and a family bathroom with a
There are front and rear Houselets...................................... 45
the side of the Abberley hills at utility room. shower over the bath. In the John Sanders................................. 53
gardens with lawns, trees and Abberley, near Worcester. A dual aspect sitting room has garden, which backs on to mature
shrubs. The house also has a Lets Rent...................................... 44
The property enjoys a rural patio doors to a paved balcony, woodland, are two mature cherry Martin & Co.................................. 55
patio and a shed. setting and it has been improved there is also a sitting room with a trees and a shed. Philip Laney & Jolly........................ 51
since its construction. nearby study and an archway to a
BUYER’S INFO It has an L-shaped hallway with dining room. Also on the ground BUYER’S INFO Platinum....................................... 46
Premier Places.............................. 47
PRICE: £220,000 an open staircase. The breakfast floor is a shower room and below PRICE: £320,000 Reeds Rains.................................. 48
AGENT: HILLS ESTATE AGENTS kitchen has quality pale green is a double garage. AGENT: G HERBERT BANKS Simply Lets................................... 52
CALL: 01905 723545 painted timber units with solid Upstairs the house has three CALL: 01299 896968 Town & Country Property Services..... 1,54
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You too can live the dream in

a comfy, chocolate box home
In his hunt for traditional black and white homes Mike Pryce finds one that dates back to the 1400s and has an impressive inglenook
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LACK and white
properties abound along
the byways of
Worcestershire giving a
real clue to the county’s
rural heritage.
Tucked away in cosy villages – or
even sometimes to be found on the
edges of towns when the urban
sprawl has overtaken them – they
are the epitome of period charm,
something you just can’t get with a
new build.
Here are four half-timbered
homes each with its own special
appeal. So if you are looking for
chocolate box chic, take your pick.
The first, Church Farm House in
Abberton Road, Bishampton, near
Pershore, is a beautiful grade two LIVING WITH
listed timber framed property HISTORY:
believed to date from the early 1400s. Church Farm
The house has been well House,
maintained and has excellent Abberton
family accommodation that is choc- Road,
a-block with character features Bishampton,
including some superb exposed near
timbers and a particularly Pershore,
impressive double sided inglenook. has five
The option also exists to create a bedrooms
self-contained suite. and two
Church Farm House has bathrooms.
landscaped gardens and pretty fronted units. There is also a study, approached along a no through large cedar. There is also an
views. Inside is a hall with an a utility and a store room. lane. It has a gravelled driveway ornamental water feature, an
BUYER’S INFO
inglenook, a beamed sitting room Upstairs are five bedrooms and and parking for several vehicles. attractive blue brick path and PRICE: £595,000
and dining/living room and a two bathrooms. The gardens feature colourful terrace, lawns and outbuildings AGENT: JOHN SANDERS
breakfast room/ kitchen with oak Church Farm House is flower beds, shrub borders and a that provide useful storage. CALL: 01905 726220
THREE MORE OF A KIND: BUY YOURSELF A SLICE OF HALF-TIMBERED HEAVEN

UPPER ELMORES END, WHITBOURNE THE HERMITAGE, MALVERN TREES COTTAGE, COWSDEN
Upper Elmores End farm and barn at Whitbourne, between The Hermitage in Pickersleigh Road, Malvern, is a grade two, Trees Cottage at Cowsden, Upton Snodsbury, near Pershore, is
Worcester and Bromyard is a grade two home that’s full of part-thatched, listed 16th century house with lots of character. a grade two listed four or five-bedroom cottage that’s just
character – but it does need some updating. It has a sitting room with an open fireplace, windows set into bursting with character.
The principal accommodation has three reception rooms with original timbers, a study and a music room/dining room. In the Originally three cottages, the flexible accommodation
exposed beams, open fireplaces and fine views. The first and kitchen is a china box sink, granite and teak worktops, a comprises an entrance hall, a rear hall, a downstairs lavatory, a
second floors provide extensive character bedroom central island and a gas fired Aga. Beyond is a larder, a utility sitting room, a kitchen, a dining room, a snug and a study.
accommodation with good ceiling heights. and an office/boot room. On the first floor – which is reached by three separate
In addition is an attached twin-storey cider house with a cider The first floor is centred around a split level landing. There are staircases – are the bedrooms, a bathroom and another
press and mill and nearby is a detached stone built twin-storey four bedrooms – most of them have storage cupboards, separate lavatory.
oast house. vaulted ceilings and exposed beams. The bathroom has a Trees Cottage has mature, well-tended gardens, a single garage
Outside are lawns, shrubberies, a wildlife pond and central slipper bath – from which there is a view of the garden. and two driveways.
outbuildings for which plans were approved for their conversion The Hermitage has a right of way over Link Common and it has
although they have now lapsed. There is also a modern steel a gravelled drive and a detached brick three-bay stable
framed barn, some woodland and paddocks with a stream block/garage.
frontage and water supply. The whole covers about 27 acres.
PRICE £985,000; JOINT AGENTS KNIGHT FRANK AND PRICE £650,000; AGENT ANDREW GRANT; CALL 01905 PRICE £450,000; AGENT ALLAN MORRIS; CALL 01905
ANDREW GRANT; CALL 01905 723438 AND 734735 734735 612266
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PROPERTYPROFILEILE
HANDY END OF TERRACE HOME
A two-bedroom Victorian end of terrace house, 9 Hopton Street,
Worcester, can be found on the western side of the city. It
offers good access to the facilities in St John’s and it is also
handy for the university.
The accommodation, which has gas fired central heating and is
mostly double glazed, includes a sitting room with an Adam-
style fire surround, a dining room with decorative coving, a
kitchen with a built-in electric oven and a five-ring gas hob and
a cloakroom. On the first floor there are two bedrooms and a
bathroom. Outside is a rear garden with a lawn, a seating area
and a shed.
PRICE £139,950; AGENT PARKINSON WRIGHT; CALL 01905
721655
NEEDS COMPLETING: Most of the work has been done on converting the Oast House at Adamswood Farm, Upper Sapey.
Looking for a project?

A DETACHED barn conversion The main building works are now The Oast House also has a master
standing in just over one acre of land, virtually complete and what requires bedroom with an en-suite shower room
the Oast House at Adamswood Farm, finishing is the installation of central and fitted wardrobes, four further
Upper Sapey, near Tenbury Wells, is heating, some final fix electricity and double bedrooms – two have fitted
ideal for a buyer in need of a project. plumbing, fitting the kitchen and wardrobes – and two bathrooms. There
The building dates from 1840 and was bathrooms and decoration. is also extensive loft storage.
part of the neighbouring farm. The The accommodation, when complete,
current owners bought the oast house will comprise a breakfast kitchen, a
BUYER’S INFO
in 1988, were given planning dining room, a sitting room, a study, a PRICE: £395,000
permission to convert it and worked on further study or library, a playroom, a AGENT: G HERBERT BANKS
it until 2008. utility and a hall with a lavatory CALL: 01299 896968
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Houses and
AuctionsNews
Land For Sale
Flats to Let
1 BED DETACHED HOUSE
PRIME Building plot for sale Quiet location, 2 mins Worcs
build to let investment full PP 4 City Centre, ORP, U/F,refs
bed detached family home req'd. No DSS. £445 pcm excl.
heart of village location nr 07809 671741 /01905 425114
Redditch top rated schools ATTRACTIVE ONE BED SEMI
UNDER THE HAMMER reduced by 15k for a quick With garden in Warndon
Harvest scene made

cash sale. Request further Villages. 2 parking spaces.
details: chestnutplans Pets considered, £495 pcm
@aol.co.uk 08450 943081
LARGE 1 BEDROOM
APARTMENT
Church Road. GCH. DG, ORP,
Houses and £495 pcm
Flats to Let 01905 457658/ 07866 521941
ONE BEDROOM FLAT
With off road parking, close to
more than expected

Town Centre. No DSS/Pets.
£320 per calendar month.
07773 280657
SHORT TERM LET
Available until 01/09. City
centre. Unfurnished 2 bed
house (1 E/S) £500 pcm
07846 656263
TWO BEDROOM FLAT
Malvern, furnished garden flat,
fitted kitchen, GCH, ORP, refs,
dep req, £550 pcm
01684 575439
Paintings, Georgian furniture and a bowl excited bidders at a sale by the Cotswold Auction Company
Rooms To Rent
SINGLE ROOM
In modern house, near City
Centre, weekly cleaner,
broadband, all bills included,
no DSS. £73 pw.
SELF CONTAINED
FURNISHED STUDIO Telephone 07979 866644
APARTMENTS ROOM IN HOUSE SHARE
In Worcester Centre. Rainbow Hill area
£260pcm - £395 pcm exc. £70 pw all inclusive
Employed only. Refs/Dep. 07973 130495
No set up fees ROOM IN SHARED FLAT
07973 267691 £75pw incl. Broadband.
Barnards Green area, Malvern
SOUTH WORCESTER 07899 731566
CANINE: One of the paintings of £450 monthly, furnished ROOMS IN HOUSE SHARE
St Johns. Parking.
Fritz that were sold for £450.
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Non smoking.
maisonette, one double From £280 pcm incl.
01905 621185/07791 755505
WO shapely pieces of bedroom etc, parking/heating ST JOHNS
Georgian mahogany 01905 352026
Sgle & Dble Rooms. £230 -
£330pcm inc; Prof. No DSS
furniture which took top TOPS: The Edwardian marquetry Tel: 07776 201010
honours in a packed inlaid table that sold for £300. TO LET roomsinworcester.co.uk
saleroom at a recent Spacious 1 bed masonette in
Wardon Villages, new kitchen Property
Cotswold Auction Company sale head of a dog called Fritz and bathroom with shower, off Wanted
held in Gloucester. attracted several telephone road parking for 2 cars, easy
access to Hospital and M5, no
The first was a handsome bidders as well as much interest DSS, children, smokers or pets. 2 BED HOUSE
Warndon Villages, Parking,
George III mahogany serpentine- in the room and realised £450, Unfurnished at £495 pcm garden, to be available end
07974 434784
fronted chest with three long HARVEST: This watercolour by Bonomi Warren was sold for £680. while two still lifes of cooking April Approx £500pcm
07713 487961
drawers. Measuring only 94 cm ingredients on a rustic table by
wide, it would be easy to Vittorino Rossi made £300 and
accommodate in any drawing £260 respectively.
room. The surprise of the day was a
There is a premium on any highly collectable Royal
shaping of furniture, which Copenhagen porcelain bowl
requires extra skill from the painted with trailing floral
cabinet maker, such as a decoration, which attracted a
serpentine-front, and this helped great deal of online interest from
the chest race past its estimate to collectors all over the country.
come under the hammer at £880. This was initialled CHX and was
Similarly a fine French Empire the subject of spirited bidding,
secretaire chest, also serpentine- which culminated in a hammer
fronted, found a ready buyer at price of £500.
£750. This was fitted with a A fine pair of Imari vases and
secretaire drawer, all inlaid with covers, 43cm high, made a
mother-of-pearl scrolls. respectable £290 while two
Also in the furniture section handsome Chinese porcelain
Windsor stickback elbow chairs SURPRISE: The Royal Copenhagen porcelain bowl that sold for £500. tankards sold well at £260.
attracted lots of attention. They Meanwhile 11 Chinese blue and
were in original condition, some mouldings made £400. interesting collection of oils and white porcelain plates decorated
with desirable yew hoops and A late Victorian small pedestal watercolours from a house near with flowers and butterflies came
crinoline stretchers. desk sold for £400 and an Stroud, Gloucestershire. Principal under the hammer at £230.
One matched pair came sold for attractively inlaid Edwardian among these was a watercolour One coin collector was happy
£500 and the other at £380. A marquetry mahogany occasional by Bonomi Warren, a harvesting with a large quantity of half
small Georgian mahogany bow- table with a circular top reached scene with figures in a cornfield, crowns, principally George VI, for
fronted chest of drawers £300 from a telephone buyer. dated 1890, which again exceeded which he needed to pay £520, a
exchanged hands for £350, while Several tripod tables, which are its estimate and sold for £680. figure which once again
an oak chest of revived 17th always popular pieces, sold well. A pair of small oils on board, exceeding the auctioneers’
century style with geometric The sale also included an each showing a portrait of the expectations.
Internet bidders snap up watercolours

INTERNET bidders were keen to The second was a watercolour
acquire two significant by David Roberts of Venice,
watercolours in a recent sale signed and dated 1859, and it
organised by the Cotswold came under the hammer at £1,000.
Auction Company at Bingham Other oils included two 17th
Hall, Cirencester, Gloucestershire. century portraits, realising £700 PORTRAITS:
The first was attributed to and £650 each, a George Chinnery The 17th
Edward Lear (1818-1888). scene of figures beside a river, century oils
It was an 1886 study of The selling for £680 and an oil on that were
Verdala Palace, Malta, and panel after Phillips Wouvermans sold for
despite lacking a signature, sailed of a horseman and two peasants £700 and
past its estimate to reach £1,100. on a hillside, realising £600. £650.
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LettingsNews
HOMES OF THE WEEK
BARBOURNE, WORCESTER BARBOURNE, WORCESTER

Apartment with open plan lounge/kitchen with Contemporary modern apartment with lounge,
built-in appliances, one bedroom with storage, kitchen two bedrooms, en-suite, bathroom, two
shower room and parking. allocated parking spaces and bike store.
£515 pcm £695 pcm
TAYLORS 01905 20934 TOWN & COUNTRY 01905 610710
NEAR PERSHORE DIGLIS, WORCESTER

Three/four bedroom barn conversion, furnished or A unique opportunity to rent a new fully furnished
unfurnished. Lounge, large dining kitchen, master three-bedroom modern terrace property located on
bedroom with en-suite and parking. the riverfront at Diglis.
£895 pcm £875 pcm
HILLS ESTATE AGENTS 01905 723545 MARTIN & CO 01905 619890
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LettingsNews
HOMES OF THE WEEK
CUMBERLAND STREET, WORCESTER MALVERN

Unfurnished Victorian terrace house with two A well-presented home in a quiet location with a
double bedrooms, kitchen, shower room, lounge, lounge, kitchen, two double bedrooms, bathroom,
cellar room and garden with patio. driveway and garden.
£595 pcm £585 pcm
PREMIER PLACES 01905 616616 TAYLORS 01905 20934
BYFIELD RISE, WORCESTER DARWIN AVENUE, WORCESTER

First floor purpose built apartment with hall, Furnished two-bedroom, former coach house show
lounge, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. Night home. Lounge with dining area, kitchen, bathroom,
storage heating. Off-road parking. Unfurnished. patio, allocated parking and garage.
£440 pcm £675 pcm
SIMPLY LETS 01905 612818 PREMIER PLACES 01905 616616
OFF LONDON ROAD, WORCESTER

Five-bedroom detached non-estate home. Lounge, dining
kitchen, dining room, utility, bathroom, garage and rear
garden. Being let unfurnished.
£1,200 pcm
HILLS ESTATE AGENTS 01905 723545
WORCESTER
A two-bedroom two-storey apartment with hall, shower room,
utility room, stairs leading to two bedrooms, family bathroom,
large lounge and kitchen. Parking available.
£550 pcm
TOWN & COUNTRY 01905 610710
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RESIDENTIAL 2-41 NEW HOMES 42 CLASSIFIEDS 43 AUCTIONS 43 HOMES TO LET 44-56

THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2011 worcesternews.co.uk/homes

park here Parkinson Wright..........................

Rooms with a view

You too can live the dream in

THREE MORE OF A KIND: BUY YOURSELF A SLICE OF HALF-TIMBERED HEAVEN

Looking for a project?

Harvest scene made

more than expected

Internet bidders snap up watercolours

BARBOURNE, WORCESTER BARBOURNE, WORCESTER

NEAR PERSHORE DIGLIS, WORCESTER

CUMBERLAND STREET, WORCESTER MALVERN

BYFIELD RISE, WORCESTER DARWIN AVENUE, WORCESTER

OFF LONDON ROAD, WORCESTER

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