Tools and brushes at the ready – Highland Rd

Stacks of potential to create a beautiful home or buy to let investment. With this Victorian home in need of some updating comes the opportunity for a purchaser to add further value. Offering well proportioned accommodation which is very much expected in these homes – once inside you will find two reception rooms and kitchen on the ground floor. First floor houses two double bedrooms and a bathroom. There is also gas central heating. To the rear there is a south facing garden (which does need attention) which backs onto Innox Park.

 Built almost 20 years after the Albany Rd area, Highland Rd was first occupied in 1908, with odd numbered houses 1 through 19 and even numbers 2 through 16 listed in local street directories. Three of the homes were still being built (10, 14 and 16) at the time. No9 was the home of William Thomas Winstone, a local mason, with neighbours J. Butcher (No7 – a presser) and Mrs Mary Graham (No11). The house changed hands within a year, with the new owner being Frederick Jefferies (occupation listed as corder).

Full details now on our website

Property under £100,000 in Bath? Yes, it does exist!

We won’t pretend that we get lots of opportunities to sell properties in Bath for under 100k but this one bed flat brings in £6300 pa income or could be a smashing first home within striking distance of the city centre.

Ground floor one bedroom apartment with shared rear courtyard. Having been a superb investment for our client at £525 – £550pcm for many years, this property is suitable for buy to let or offers a chance for first time buyers to get onto the property ladder in Bath. Located in the heart of local amenities, yet right on bus routes to the city centre and Bristol alike. Generous front facing sitting room with three windows, separate kitchen, bathroom and double bedroom to rear. Courtyard shared between Flats 1 and 2 only.Recently installed gas central heating, fire/sprinkler system and some double glazing. Internal photos shown have been taken between tenancies.

Sitting room to front, inner hall, kitchen, bathroom, double bedroom. Shared courtyard to rear.

We won’t pretend that flats at this price are perfect! Prospective purchasers should be aware that
a) the railway runs behind the building at an elevated level.
b) the standard of presentation in the flat is entirely adequate for letting but could do with more upgrading over time.

Please also note that the property is let at present but can be made vacant in short order (1 mths notice).

Historical Notes
The Domesday Book records that lands in Twerton were divided up between Geoffrey Malrward and Nigel de Gournay as their rewards for fighting for William the Conqueror. Geoffrey Malrward held “Twertone” (also know as “Twiverton” which translates as Two Ford Town) from the Bishop of Countances, who owned about a tenth of Somerset land.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Great Western Railway ploughed through Twerton in 1840, cutting off much of the village from its riverside streets. Twerton station closed in 1917 due to the economic hardships of the First World War, although the building itself is still prominent at the bottom end of the High Street.
In 1915 the Twerton Cooperative Society took over the premises of 1 and 2 Railway Terrace, next door to the property we are selling. Their initials can still be seen on the tiled front step of No1. A key purpose for the formation of such cooperatives was to pool the finances of their members, so as to be able to buy goods in bulk. These would then be sold without profit to members as a way of keeping prices low.

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New property to rent in Landseer Rd

Fully accredited 4 bedroom end terrace Victorian house with off street parking – now available to rent via Madison Oakley. Available as a whole house or individual rooms. Gas CH, D/G, enclosed gravelled rear garden. Perfect for Bath Spa university students or professionals working in the city centre – the bus runs along Twerton High St 200yds to the north.

Internal photos and floorplans now available on our website!

Long Hay Close, Bath

Just to prove we showcase all types and prices of property in Bath in exactly the same manner, here’s a little beauty in Twerton ripe for first time buyers or buy to let.

An incredible 113ft x 33ft of rear garden, beautiful views over to Weston, a cul de sac location and an immaculate interior make this two double bedroom house a must see. Handily placed for High St shops just down Shophouse Road, this gorgeous house has the largest plot on the road. Double glazed, modern fitted kitchen, GCH and a gleaming white bathroom.

Full details via our website as always

P.S – did you know that Innox (as in Innox Road, Twerton) is actually a Saxon word used to describe land that is left to fallow.

Twerton Gaol

Twerton Gaol (the original spelling), was designed by architect George Manners (who was Bath City Architect from 1823 – 1862) and opened in 1843. It was erected in Caledonian Road, where it would have been in easily seen from the Royal Crescent (built a century earlier). It was therefore designed to look more like a stately home than a prison from the outside though we understand that, apart from the Governor’s residence (which faced the Royal Crescent), the inside contained no luxuries (there are references to a treadmill-operated grinding machine for converting rocks into fragments for the construction and road building industries). The prison was built to replace the original one in Grove Street, which was overcrowded and prone to flooding, and it housed what today would be called “low grade” offenders such as debtors and fraudsters. It closed in 1878, and was then put to other uses. Some time before the war the building behind the Governor’s quarters, which was originally part of the prison, was occupied by Walters Engineering Ltd, and Ivor Walters lived almost opposite it. In this modern picture, the outside of the Governor’s House is still very like it originally looked but now it is owned by the Guinness Housing Association and, since 1991 (which is also the date when the building occupied by Walter’s Engineering was demolished and replaced by more Guinness Housing association apartments), it has been occupied by the tenants. Part of the exercise yard is now gardens for the residents and part is occupied by some new buildings and their parking spaces.

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