• Type: Apartment
• Year built: 2003
• Tenure: Leasehold
• Ground rent: £200 p.a.
• Service charge: £3,089.87 pa
• Lease length: 125 year lease (from 2003)
• Agent/Manager: Grange Management
• Age qualification: Over 55
• Contact: Scheme Manager
• Telephone: 01689 890581

Development

Precista Court is a Bryant Homes development set close to shops in Orpington's High Street. Altogether there are 24 apartments with lift and an equal number of two and one-bedroom properties. The development is accessed through an archway with iron gates leading to the parking area and gardens. There is a visiting scheme manager, guest facilities, residents' lounge and attractive gardens and grounds.

Further Information

Precista Court has been designed to provide independent living with the assistance of a resident scheme manager to take care of day-to-day management issues at the development. The service costs cover the management service and each resident contributes quarterly, assessed according to the size of the individual property.

Situation

Precista Court is approached through wrought iron gates close to shops in Orpington's High Street.

Town

Orpington has good range of shops and amenities and an attractive park to the north of the high street. It was already a large village at the time of Domesday and belonged to the Archbishop of Canterbury with two churches and two mills. It was then known as Orpinton and remained a village through the next centuries and expanded considerably in the 19th century with the coming of the railways. The traditional high street also has a covered shopping mall - The Walnuts Shopping Centre, and good leisure facilities with Orpington Priory, Museum and Gardens open all year round. The Walnuts Leisure Centre has  a swimming pool, squash courts and gym.The town is also well paced for access to the M25 and further afield with good links to the motorway network in the south of England.

Facilities include a visiting manager and emergency alarm service, electric gates, lift, residents' lounge, guest suite and garden.

Communications

Orpington is a little more than three miles from Junction 4 of the M25 . Swanley is three miles and Croydon eight miles. Fast trains from Orpington to London (Charing Cross) take about 25 minutes.

General Information

Precista Court is managed by Grange Management, The Mill, Abbey Mill Business Park, Lower Eashing, Godalming GU72QJ. Further information can be obtained from Grange Management on01483 411770.