3 Bed Semi-Detached House, Palm Road, SO16

3 bedroom 1930's semi-detached house, walking distance from General hospital, quick access to M3, M27, A35, ~15 min cycleride from university, station, and city centre. Also walking distance from greenways.


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Availability

The house will become available during July, 2023 at £1400 per calendar month, for a careful, reliable tenant.

Viewings are by arrangement. Tenancy subject to landlord's discretion and tenant's references.

Description

This is a freshly redecorated three bedroom house with garden including vegetable patch, and two off-road parking spaces plus a gated carport suitable for medium-size car, or motorcycle/bicycles etc. Much of the house's 1930's character is retained, but blended with light and airy décor and modern conveniences.

The sitting room, with its art deco wall lamps and fireplace surround, illuminated alcove where the fire used to be over a tiled hearth and glazed door to the hallway provides a welcoming space for you and your guests, while the dining room adjacent to the kitchen is of crisp, modern style, and opens through double glazed french doors onto the garden just beneath the established grape vine. It has a separate door into the carport. The bespoke kitchen also has adequate room for a table seating up to four people, and features solid wood cupboard doors and oak worksurfaces, a double bowl stainless steel sink, large herb rack and sizeable pan rack. There is a cooker hood above the hob which extracts to outside.

Two of the bedrooms have ample space for a double bed as well as other normal bedroom furniture, the third works especially well as a single study-bedroom, with room for a bed, wardrobe, desk and the oak shelving supplied. The bathroom (which includes a centrally heated towel rail, showerside mirror, fitted liquid soap dispenser on the handbasin, humidity controlled extractor fan and thermostatic bath/shower mixer with rainfall shower) is situated just at the bottom of the stairs, equally accessible from the bedrooms or downstairs. There is also an additional W/C.

In the garden, beyond the patio and vine, is a lawn surrounded on two sides by roses and a passionflower against the fences. Beyond the fence at the end of the lawn is a small vegetable patch and a paved area at the foot of the garden on which sits a small wooden storage cabinet (mini-shed).

The house incorporates a number of practical touches so often absent in rental properties, including a fitted coat cupboard in the porch, mains powered doorbell, programmable heating controller as well as electric immersion heater, large hot water cylinder, installed data and aerial cabling, and picture rail. There is also an installed and professionally serviced fire alarm system with smoke and/or heat heads in all rooms except the bathroom and W/C (but including the loft and airing cupboard), and a recirculating dehumidifier. All the windows are good quality double glazed units fitted in 2013, the energy efficient boiler was fitted in 2011, and there is 1000L worth of rainwater collection capacity for the garden. The mortice locks on front and back doors are BS3621 compliant (often important for contents insurance).

The carport is fitted with electrical power and lighting as well as hot and cold water taps - a much better place than outside for a cherished vehicle, or just a handy area for various tasks.

Room sizes

The sizes below are accurate to approximately 0.1 m. If dimensions are critical, please feel free to take measurements during a viewing.

• Sitting room: 4.2 m by 3.6 m
  
• Dining room: 3.1 m by 2.3 m
  
• Kitchen: 4.3 m by 2.3 m
  
• Carport: 4.4 m by 2.3 m
  
• Bedroom 1: 4.2 m by 3.4 m
  
• Bedroom 2: 4.2 m by 2.5 m
  
• Bedroom 3: 2.4 m by 2.3 m plus 2.5 m by 1.5 m
  

Please also refer to the floorplans among the images.

Summary of features

• 3 bedrooms
• 2 reception rooms
• Bathroom and separate W/C
• Carport plus double driveway
  

• Double glazing throughout (new in 2013)
  
• Cat5e data connections to most rooms with central patch panel including phone and ADSL distribution
  
• TV/FM/Satellite connections to all bedrooms and sitting room
• Efficient Viessmann condensing boiler (fitted new in 2011)
• Large (206L) hot water cylinder with gas and immersion heating, 7 day heating programmer
• Gas fired central heating throughout with thermostatic valves on all radiators except hallway and towel rail
  
• New consumer unit fitted in 2013
• Wired fire alarm system with detectors in all rooms except bathroom & W/C, plus loft & airing cupboard
  
• Picture rail throughout except kitchen & bathroom
• BS3621 compliant mortice locks

• Bathroom: rainfall shower, heated towel rail, thermostatic shower/bath mixer, automatic extractor and soap dispenser
• Kitchen: solid wood doors and oak surfaces, double bowl sink, large herb rack and pan rack, extracting cooker hood
• Carport: bolted timber doors, mains power and lighting, hot and cold taps, door to house, side access to garden

Furnishings

The following furnishings, equipment and appliances will be provided unless not required:

• curtains;
• fitted wardrobes in bedroom 2;
• electric cooker (4 hobs, 2 ovens);
  
• washing machine; and
• refrigerator and freezer (as a combined, freestanding appliance);
  

The following furnishings and appliances can be provided if required:

• glass topped dining table and four steel/plastic chairs; and
  
• basic garden tools.
  

Please speak to us about any other requirements.

Key terms

The following is a non-exhaustive list of noteworthy terms to be included in the tenancy agreement:

• no alterations or redecoration are to be carried out by the tenant;
  
• the tenant is to undertake basic upkeep of the garden;
• the tenant is to be responsible for all utility bills and council tax;
• no new services are to be connected without the landlord's written permission (permission is not needed for arrangement of services where connections already exist, i.e. gas, water, electricity, BT phone and ADSL broadband);
• no animals are to be kept at the property without the landlord's written permission;
• no more than 5 people are to be in regular occupancy;
• no smoking is to take place inside the house or adjacent to open doors or windows; and
  
• neither the house nor any part thereof is to be sub-let.

Nothing in this advertisement shall be taken as binding on any party. A tenancy agreement will be drawn up which will contain the terms of the tenancy, notwithstanding anything herein.



If interested, please make contact with some information about yourselves and any questions.