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2 Bedroom

- £230,000

Two bedroom first floor apartment with approximate room dimensions as follows: Entrance Hall with loft access, storage cupboard and airing cupboard. Sitting Room (16' x 10'11") Kitchen (10' x 5'11") Bedroom 1 (12'6" max including double wardrobe x 12' max) Bedroom 2 (12' max excluding double wardrobe x 12' max) Shower room (8'4" x 6'4") Double glazing and electric storage heating.

  • Apartment
  • 1987
  • Leasehold
  • £75 p.a.
  • £3,096,65 p.a. to December 2021
  • 125 years from 1987
  • Grange Management
  • Over 60
  • Scheme Manager
  • 01489 885409

Development

Old Common Gardens consists of 49 apartments in two buildings each of two storeys surrounded by landscaped gardens and with a parking forecourt at the entrance to the development.

There is a resident manager, emergency alarm system in each property, a residents lounge and communal laundry. There are also guest facilities that can be booked for visitors. The Locks Heath Shopping Centre, Library, Community Centre and Health Centre are about a five minute walk.

Further Information

Nearby there are many interesting places to visit including Titchfield Haven Nature Reserve and Hill Head once the centre of a thriving smuggling centre in the 18th century.

Situation

Old Common Gardens is situated off Locks Road which runs due south from Middle Road which connects to the main A27. The development adjoins woodland and playing fields on common land which once formed part of Swanwick Heath.

Town

Southampton is a thriving city and has long been a major port being the home of the Atlantic liners often to be seen in Southampton Water. Mayflower Park at the bottom of Western Esplanade has always been a popular spot to spot the Queen Mary.

The city has many beautiful parks and gardens, a flourishing theatre, excellent shops and numerous places of interest to visit. Originally the site of the Roman port of Clauesentum it was from Southampton that the Pilgrim Fathers set sail in 1620. Its deep water port ensured its place in maritime history with Henry V assembling his army here before invading France. The Maritime museum is housed in a 14th Century warehouse. Today there are several other museums in the city and many fine buildings. There are regular ferries to The Isle of Wight.

Locks Heath and its neighbour Warsash are favoured residential districts close to the coast and with frontage to the River Hamble and access to countryside. The area is just south of the main A27 Southampton Road and there is both good local shopping and public transport to the larger centres of both Fareham and Southampton. Locks Heath is about a mile south of Swanwick and Junction 9 of the M27 bounded by Warsash and Titchfield to the south west and south east.

Facilities : These include a resident Scheme Manager, an emergency alarm service, communal lounge and laundry as well as guest facilities and attractive landscaped gardens.

HISTORY

Locks Heath originally established itself as a community of market gardens and farms becoming famous for supplying much of the country with strawberries in the early part of the 20th century. It is surrounded by the earlier settlements of Swanwick and Titchfield. Titchfield is mentioned in Domesday as Ticefelle and had a mill, a market and a toll. Today it remains an attractive small town with a Saxon Church and the ruin of Place House, where Charles Ist spent his last night before imprisonment.

Communications

Communications are excellent with the M27 at Junction 9 less than 3 miles. Fareham is about 5 miles and Southampton 6 miles. Wickham is 7 miles and Botley 6 miles. Fast trains from Swanwick, about 2 miles, to Southampton take about 20 minutes and to London (Paddington) about an hour and 50 minutes. Southampton Airport is about seven miles.

Directions

From the M27 Junction 9 take the A27 to Southampton through Park Gate and take the turning on your left which is Locks Road. The entrance to Old Commons Gardens is in a little distance on your right off Meadow Avenue.

General Information

Old Common Gardens 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 apartment. Information on service costs can be provided by grange management. For further information please contact the Scheme Manager, on 01489 885409 or Grange Management Tel: 01483 411770.

Reference No. 31489

Old Common Gardens
Locks Heath
Southampton
Hampshire
SO31 6AX
Under Offer
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