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RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES 2-16 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS 17 AUCTIONS 17 HOMES TO LET

Gardeners

will enjoybig groundsNUMBER 167 Malvern Road, StJohn’s, Worcester, is an impressivebay windowed semi-detached home.

It has a sitting room with a coaleffect gas fire, a dining room withfrench doors that open ontodecking and a refitted breakfastkitchen with matching wall andbase units, roll edge work surfacesand some built-in appliances.

Beyond is a rear lobby and autility/shower room. Upstairs is alanding, three bedrooms and arefitted family bathroom.

Outside is a driveway, a detachedgarage and a large rear garden.

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SUPER SEMI: 167 Malvern Road.

BUYER’S INFOPRICE: £349,995AGENT: HILLS ESTATE AGENTSCALL: 01905 723545

A popular place to liveFOR sale signs usually turn to‘Sold’ quite quickly at BroomhallCottages, Broomhall, nearWorcester.

Originally built to house soldiersof the Worcestershire Regimentstationed at nearby NortonBarracks they have uninterruptedviews of the Malvern Hills.

Number 10 is a double fronted

terraced home. On the ground floorthe accommodation comprises anentrance porch with laminateflooring, a sitting room with an

open fireplace, a separate dining room with a feature fireplace, afitted kitchen and a bathroom witha corner bath and ceramic tiledflooring.

Upstairs are four bedrooms – one

has a tiled shower cubicle – and ashower room.

There is also a driveway, a garageand a rear garden with decking and

a summer house.

FABULOUS VIEW: Enjoy looking across the countryside to the Malvern Hills from 10 Broomhall Cottages.

BUYER’S INFOPRICE: £250,000AGENT: THE PROPERTY CENTRECALL: 01905 22222

AUCTIONS.................................CLASSIFIEDS.............................

RESIDENTIALAllan Morris............................Cawley....................................Griffiths & Charles..................Halls.........................................Hills Estate Agents..................

John Sanders............................Parkinson Wright....................Philip Laney & Jolly.................RA Bennett.............................Reeds Rains.............................The Property Centre..............Town & Country Property Serv

Your Move..............................

LETTINGSAllan Morris Lettings..............Andrew Grant Lettings..........Belvoir!....................................Griffiths & Charles..................G Herbert Banks....................Halls.........................................Hills Estate Agents..................Houselets................................Lets Rent.................................Philip Laney & Jolly..................

Premier Places.........................Reeds Rains.............................Shelton & Lines.......................Simply Lets..............................Town & Country Property ServYour Move..............................

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2 BRIGHT AVENUE

Take a look at this four-bedroom detached family home. It’s 2 Bright Avenue at The Harleys and it’sbeing sold with fixtures and fittings, such ascarpets, curtains, blinds, light fittings, sheds andeven a hot tub. On the ground floor is a hall, asitting room with a bay window, a dining room, aconservatory, a kitchen/breakfast room withgranite work surfaces, a utility and a cloakroom.Upstairs in an en-suite master bedroom, threemore bedrooms and a bathroom.Outside is off-road, garage and pretty gardens.

PRICE £299,950; AGENT ALLAN MORRIS;CALL 01905 612266

THREE MORE OF A KIND: HOMING IN ON THE AVENUES OF WARNDON VILLAGES

104 HOMESTEAD AVENUE

A terraced house, 104 Homestead Abe found at Wall Meadow. Ideal for tfamily or a couple, it has an entrancelounge with an electric fire, a fitted kfrench doors to the rear, two bedroofamily bathroom with a shower abovDouble glazing and gas fired central been installed.The property has allocated off-road prear and front and rear gardens witha lawn.

PRICE £134,950; AGENT THE PRCENTRE; CALL 01905 22222

50 MARSH AVENUE

Long Meadow is where you’ll find the five-bedroom house at 50 Marsh Avenue. It has gasfired central heating, double glazing and off-roadparking for three vehicles. The accommodationincludes a hall, a fitted kitchen, a sitting room, adining room, a cloakroom, a conservatory and aground floor bedroom with an en suite shower.Upstairs, the master bedroom has an en-suiteshower room, three more bedrooms and abathroom. The rear garden has a fish pond, apergola and decking.

PRICE £247,000; AGENT GRIFFITHS &CHARLES; CALL 01905 726464

THE Warndon Villagesdevelopment on theeastern side of Worcester,sandwiched between theM5 and the city centre,

has been one of the success storiesof the last 20 years.

An ambitious project that drewtogether many national and localbuilding companies,it has growninto an extended community prettymuch as the planners hadenvisaged.

A popular port of call for young families and commuters who wantquick access to the motorway,there are invariably a goodselection of homes for sale andhere are four of them.

The first is 3 Watchetts Green, amodern detached family homebuilt by Bryant Homes. Situated in

a quiet cul-de-sac, it is approachedby a tarmacadam driveway giving access to a canopy porch with partglazed front door with inset leadedlight coloured patterned doubleglazed panels.

The reception hall has panelleddoors to a lounge, a dining room, acombined kitchen and breakfastroom and an understairscloakroom.

The lounge has front facing viewswith a bay window, a fireplace withan open fire grate, wood laminateflooring and double doors that leadthrough to the dining room. Thisalso has a wood laminate floor anddouble glazed french doors to therear garden.

The fitted kitchen has a range of wall and floor mounted units, abuilt-in fan assisted electric ovenwith a four-ring gas hob and an

archway to a utility room wherethere are floor mounted units andspace and plumbing for a washing machine and a tumble drier.

On the first floor of 3 WatchettsGreen are four bedrooms – threedoubles and one single. The two

largest have built-in wardrobes andthe master bedroom has an en-suiteshower room.

There is also a family bathroom

with a white suite.The property has a lawned

gardens with shrub borders. A

tarmacadam driveway providesplenty of off-road parking andthere is also a single garage.

The house has gas central

heating, double glazingsecurity system.

THIS time last year themarket was relativelybuoyant. It had bouncedback strongly from twoor three particularly

trying years.But now we can see this for what

it was. The activity was mainlythrough buyers with no need for amortgage and able to cash in onpent-up demand to sell.

Now we enter a new phase afterthe Government’s unveiling of aradical set of measures to curbpublic spending. Already thesqueeze can be felt and nowheremore so than in the propertymarket.

Besides the cutbacks other darkforces are now also at work.Lenders are still making it hard toborrow money – despite theirprotestations to the contrary.Added to which some sellers,

encouraged by last year’s pricesurge, have been reluctant toaccept the new reality. Overpricedproperty is lingering on themarket – ignored by those with asmuch sense as money.

But the mist will evaporate toreveal a glorious season of richcolour and crystal clarity. For theproperty industry it is clear thatthis could be a fruitful time forthose who take care to understandwhat is happening.

To get the correct results there isimportant work to be done forboth sellers and buyers. Forsellers price is the key. Theyshould listen to experienced estateagents and not make their homethe most expensive in their road,street or lane. They should make itthe most competitive and offer thebest value for money. Buyers likevalue for money. Nor should theybe seduced by naive, incompetentor untruthful agents who flatter todeceive with inflated valuations.They should listen to their headsnot their wallets.

Buyers should get their financesin order – for those with enoughdeposit there are some good dealsabout – but they should not haveeyes bigger than their pockets.

There will be good choice in the

market so for those with cash or amortgage this should be anexcellent time to buy. But it is stillwise to remember that a smallerhouse in a popular location canoften be a better investment than abigger house in a less popular one.

It may also be timely toremember the person who oftenwill have as much, if not more,influence on the selling price of aproperty than anyone – a bank orbuilding society valuer. Right nowthey are in the driving seat forthose who need a mortgage orthose selling to someone whoneeds some finance.

BUYER’S INFO

PRICE: £229,950AGENT: HALLSCALL: 01905 611066

THE PROPERTYCOLUMN

GOOD LOOKER: 3 Watchetts Green is in a quiet cul-de-sac at Warndon Villages, Worcester. It has fou

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Thursday, DecembPROPERTY N EWS

SPLIT LEVEL HOME ON AN ELEVATED CORNER PLOTOn the borders of Worcestershire and Herefordshire is 19 Old Forge at Whitbourne –a beautifully presented split level home.It is situated on an elevated corner plot which makes it very private. Theaccommodation includes a hall, a sitting room, a dining room, a fitted kitchen and aninner hallway.The house has two double bedrooms – the potential to build a third bedroom, subjectto planning permission – a bathroom and a cloakroom.There is also a garage with a utility and splendid landscaped gardens.

PRICE £289,500; AGENT HALLS; CALL 01905 611066

PROPERTY PROFILE

NOBLE HOME: Fieldhead, Astley, near Stourport-on-Severn, has its own heated swim

Country retreat bufor ex-Prime MinistFIELDHEAD in the village of Astley, near Stourport-on-Severn, is an attractive countryhouse that was originally builtin 1930 for Sir Stanley Baldwin,three times British PrimeMinister.

The leader of the ConservativeParty from 1923-1937, EarlBaldwin of Bewdley’s stints atNumber 10 were 1923-24, 1924-29and 1935-37.

Fieldhead was built while hewas out of office and it has nowbeen extended and enlarged tocreate a high specificationfamily home in a glorious ruralsetting.

It has a timber framed andtiled porch that leads into areception hall, where there is atiled floor and adjacent is a bootroom and a cloakroom.

The dining/garden room hasdouble doors that open into thegarden and close by are theinter-connecting sitting roomand drawing room – each onehas a fireplace.

There is a superb combinedkitchen and breakfast room withcream wall and floor mounted

cupboards, granite work surfacesand integrated appliancesincluding a range cooker.

Adjoining the kitchen is auseful and sizeable pantry.

On the first floor of Fieldhead,and at the end of the landing, isthe large master bedroom whichhas exposed beams and timbersinto the pitched roof. It alsofeatures a luxury en-suitebathroom with a shower, twinwash basins and a lavatory.

There are three more goodsized bedrooms each oneenjoying a view of thecountryside.

The bedrooms are serviced bya well appointed familybathroom.

Fieldhead is approached along a driveway and through animpressive set of gates between

stone pillars.There is a parking area for

several cars in front of a largebrick clockhouse that provides auseful garage and workshop andhas planning per msission for itto be converted into a twin-storey house.

Beyond is a timber framed

doublegarage with aThe grounds inlcu

large level lawns intwith low stone wallwind their way arouestablished shrubbemature specimen tr

There is also a deewell with a stone retand canopy and a do

Beyond the formalwoodland walk and of the house is a kitwith soft fruit canesbrick pigsty that nouseful storage and a

Fieldhead also haspool complex encloswall. It includes a hwith a paved surrouchanging facilities ibuilding with a tiledthere is a room at th

houses the filtered pboiler.

There is also a soucovered seating area

BUYER’S INFOPRICE: £749,950AGENT: KNIGHT FRACALL: 01905 723438

Semi has a popular addrA MODERN style three-bedroomsemi-detached house, 5 RussellClose, is part of a populardevelopment in the village of Powick, ideally placed forcommuting to both Malvern andWorcester.

The accommodation comprisesan entrance hall, a downstairscloakroom, a combined sitting room and dining room, a kitchenand breakfast room and a utilityroom.

On the first floor there arethree bedrooms and a familybathroom.

Outside is a private driveway, asingle garage and an enclosedrear garden.

BUYER’S INFOPRICE: £206,950AGENT: ALLAN MORRISCALL: 01905 612266 HANDY: 5 Russell Close, Powick, is between Malvern an

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Thursday, December 2, 2010 PROPERTY NEWS

AuctionsNewsUNDER THE HAMMER

Classifieds

Cover price upheld for

damaged Oriental jars

TWO very determined bidderschased a pair of large 18thcentury imari jars with coversto £5,700 at Brightwellsrecent antiques and fine art

saleheld at Easters Court, Leominster.Impressive pieces of this type were

difficult to fire successfully so thatrelatively few were made. Theirscarcity appeal was greatly increasedbecause the covers were still presentand intact.

On the down side they were bothcracked in many places and the originaldecorative handles were missing. The

eventual buyer obviously anticipated agood return on the investment evenafter expensive restoration.

Other Oriental ceramics included aChinese baluster vase with unusualmoulded figures at £380 and a large blueand white vase at £230. A blue andwhite Japanese plate made £120.

Worcester ceramics were led by aBarr Flight & Barr plate with a shelland seaweed painted centre panel at£460 and another example made thesame price. An elegant urn shaped potpourri with a painted decoration soldfor £190; a comport painted with SouthAfrican flowers made £160 and another,slightly smaller one, reached £100. AFlight Barr & Barr shell painted platewithin gilded dendritic branches made£380.

The earliest piece of jewellery was awhite metal oval locket, probably silver,with the inscription “Quis tempery a

Lacluimis Fanit 1648” that sold for £950.Among much later pieces a diamondband ring, channel set, made £600; adiamond line 18ct bracelet its brilliantcut stones with flexible square linking sold for £700; an emerald and diamondnecklace with a claw set carvedemerald, £600 with an opal and asapphire pendant, £300.

An Arts and Crafts silver opal matrixand seed pearl pendant suspended froma gold chain achieved £250.

A Georgian tortoiseshell circularbox, its lid inset with a complexpastoral scene, aroused a lot of interestamong a good selection of objets d’artand made £420. A carved ivory letteropener made £360; an 18th century

ivory cased timer, £480; a carved jadedisc decorated with lions, £260 and a jade plaque, £290. A pair of cut glassscent bottles in a domed walnut boxwith gilt metal mounts sold for £160,while an ivory stick handle in the formof an American Civil War soldierchanged hands for £500.

A silver and tortoiseshell heartshaped trinket box, London, 1908, wasbought for £230 and a snuff box made

by George Unite, Birmingham, 1875,sold for £210. A pin cushion in the formof a bull dog, made by Adey & Lovekinin Birmingham, 1905, reached £180; apair of table pheasants bearing importmarks, £420; an impressive andcomplete dressing case in burr walnutand with an unusually wide variety of fittings, £1,020 and an Arts and Craftsthree-handled goblet made in London in1904, £230.

Table silver continues to sell wellbecause of its weight. A 36 oz. George Vtea service made £360 and an ArtNouveau service, made in Birminghamin 1910 went for £290. A pair of continental silver Georgian stylecandlesticks made £520, while a pint

mug by P&A Bateman, London, 1791 – acollectors piece – sold for £230. A six-piece condiment set with matching spoons, Birmingham, 1946 made £220;an 1895 coffee pot, £105 and a George VItwo handled bowl sold at £160.

An oil on canvas study of a bayracehorse, Molly Bawn, dated 1882 andpainted by H Whittaker Reville sold for£1,000. Amongst the remaining variedselection of paintings the best prices

were for a wooded landscape painted inoils on a panel and attributed toEdward Williams Senior (£340); a stilllife of fruit and a goblet attributed toJoseph Ankcorn and dated 1864 (£380);an oil on canvas, The Wye Valley from Lenton, painted by Anthony Kerr, 1974,(£320) and a watercolour, At LudlowCastle, drawn by Isaac Shew in 1840 ,(£340).

The auction included a special ethnicsection with a group of Australianaboriginal shields and sticks making £460. A leaded hardwood club withcarved letters and motifs sold for £550and a Shi ceremonial headpiece fromEast Congo, decorated with shells andfur, reached £80.

An impressive pair of 18th century imari jars entranced two bidders at Br ightwells

PRETTY: The Georgian tortoiseshell box which sold

IT was full steam ahead for Halls whena rare locomotive engine nameplatesold for £16,000.

The Torquay Manor nameplate wasbought by a telephone bidder from thesouth of England. It had come from acollector in the Machynlleth area of mid-Wales, where the locomotivesoperated until the mid-1960s.

Built in 1938, the 7800 TorquayManor was the first of the Manor Classlocomotives and was originally due tobe called Ashley Manor. Its first depotallocation was Wolverhamptonfollowed by Tyseley, Oswestry andShrewsbury. It was withdrawn from

service in August 1964. The Manorswere the smallest class of GreatWestern locomotives with the 4-6-0wheel arrangement, both in size andthe number built.

Many of them worked over the mainlines in Mid Wales, including Cambrian Railway, on such trains asthe Cambrian Coast Express. By 1959,

there were 21 Manors congregated inMid and South Wales.

Others of the class operated in theBirmingham, Gloucester and Herefordareas while a handful was stationed atReading.

Andrew Beeston, senior auctioneerand valuer at Halls, said: “Themajority of these Manor classnameplates and tender plates are soldin specialist railway auctions but itwas fitting that these were sold at ourWelsh Bridge auction house inShrewsbury, as they had a long association with Mid Wales and theMarches.”

Train nameplate steams out of sale

ORIENTAL RARITIES: The two damaged imari jars that caused a bidding war.

NOSTALGIA: The £16,000 nameplate.

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Thursday, DecembPROPERTY NEWS

WORCESTERTwo bedroom executive apartment with diningkitchen, family bathroom, lounge, two bedrooms,shower room. Secure entry and allocated parking.£775 pcmTOWN & COUNTRY 01905 610710

INFIRMARY WALK, WORCESTERTwo-bedroom terrace with hall, lounge/dining room,kitchen, courtyard garden and parking. Unfurnished.Gas central heating and double glazing.£575 pcmHILLS ESTATE AGENTS 01905 723545

LINLEY GREEN, NEAR WORCESTERThree-bedroom chapel conversion withplan lounge/kitchen, dining area, studmaster bedroom with en-suite and luxu£895 pcmTOWN & COUNTRY 01905 610710

BARBOURNE, WORCESTERUnfurnished modern three-bedroom tewith cloakroom, breakfast kitchen, sittbathroom with shower, garage and par£675 pcmHILLS ESTATE AGENTS 01905 72354

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Thursday, December 2, 2010 PROPERTY N EWS

BATH ROAD, WORCESTERUnfurnished executive-style two-bedroom apartmentin converted house. Sitting room, luxury kitchen,utility, bathroom, shower, en-suite and parking.£750 pcmHILLS ESTATE AGENTS 01905 723545

WARNDON VILLAGES, WORCESTERModern detached house. Hall, cloakroom, breakfastkitchen, lounge, master bedroom, en-suite, twofurther bedrooms, bathroom, driveway and garage.£725 pcmSHELTON & LINES 01905 353933

UPTON SNODSBURY, NEAR PERSHOREBeautiful self-contained two-bedroom annexelocated within the extensive grounds of a largeperiod property in the village.£695 pcmMARTIN & CO 01905 619890

CHARTER PLACE, WORCESTERUnfurnished town house. Hall, living room, diningroom, study, kitchen, master bedroom, en-suite,two more bedrooms, bathroom and courtyard.£750 pcmxANDREW GRANT 01905 23882

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