Wells Guide Price £325,000

About 400 yards to the Cathedral and Market Place.

A charming apartment in a Georgian house, standing within its own mature grounds, close to the Cathedral and City centre. Judges Lodgings is adapted to provide a small number of extremely appealing, entirely self-contained individual apartments with great character. The accommodation includes a hall, sitting room, fitted kitchen/dining room, 2 good size bedrooms and a bathroom. Gas CH. Outside the apartment has its own private garden plus communal areas. There is also a garage and parking.

Judge’s Lodgings is a Georgian house within a short walk of about 400 yards along New Street and Sadler Street to the Cathedral and Market Place. The house stands back within its walled grounds.

The house has been adapted to provide individual homes. The main entrance hall, staircase and sitting area (on the half landing) are communal areas. No. 5 has its own front door approached directly from the main reception hall of the building. Within is a very comfortable and appealing 2 story apartment which retain its period character.

The accommodation includes a hall (with a cloaks cupboard.) with doors to the sitting room and the kitchen/dining room. The comfortable sitting room has coving, a picture rail, 2 large windows and an attractive fireplace. The kitchen/dining room is very well equipped with fitted floor and wall units, work surfaces and appliances. There’s space for a table and chairs and a staircase rises to the first floor. Here there are two bedrooms and a bathroom. One bedroom faces east onto the front gardens and the other west to further gardens. The bathroom has wall tiling, hand basin, wc and a bath with a screen and shower.

A drive leads into Judges Lodgings and continues to a block of garages. There are attractive gardens in front of the house and at the rear further well landscaped mature gardens. All the apartments have individual garden areas. The property is leasehold with the freehold being held by a management company, which is wholly owned by the apartment owners. This enables the leaseholders to control their leases and the management of the buildings, the grounds and costs.

Judges Lodgings is listed. Boundary wall and Gates are also listed. Tenure-Leasehold 956 years remaining. Mains services. Council tax band B. EPC rating 69 C

Wells is the smallest city in England (population about 11,000) lying in beautiful countryside between the Somerset Levels and the Mendip Hills – an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Wells medieval centre has local markets twice a week, good restaurants, a thriving high street and many important ancient buildings, including the Cathedral and moated Bishops Palace and gardens. There are four major supermarkets on the edge of the city. Wells Leisure Centre has the usual facilities of gym and swimming pool to add to Wells Rugby Club, Tennis club, Bowling club and Golf course. Throughout the year Wells hosts festivals for Music, Literature, Art and Food, and has twinned links with Burgundy, the Rhineland and Northern Italy. There are many societies and clubs for those who would like to join a diverse social community.

The major towns of the area, Bristol, Bath, Taunton and Yeovil are all within commuting distance. There are excellent state & independent schools in the area which include several good primary schools, Wells Blue School, Strode College, Wells Cathedral School, Downside, All Hallows and Millfield . Wells is a transport hub for bus services, including daily services to London. Main line trains run from Castle Cary and Bristol International Airport is 35 minutes’ drive away.

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