Property photos
Freehold
Offers in region of
£875,000
6 bed detached house for sale
Snitterton Road, Matlock DE46 beds
2 baths
3 receptions
EPC rating: E
Key Information
Tenure:
Freehold
Council tax band:
F
Local area information
Property location
Nearby amenities
- Matlock 0.1 miles
- All Saints CofE Infant School 0.4 miles
- Castle View Primary School 0.6 miles
- Matlock Bath 1.1 miles
These distances are calculated in a straight line. The actual route and distance may vary.
Features and description
- Freehold
- Distinctive and substantial period residence
- New carpets, scope for further cosmetic updating
- Extensive garden plot
- Five or six bedrooms
- Excellent natural light
- Versatile accommodation
- Porch / sun room
- Garaging and barn
- Viewing highly recommended
Standing within around two acres of mature gardens, and providing substantial 5/6 bedroom accommodation, this individual period home holds an elegant air and proportion, well suited to the discerning purchaser seeking a home of stature.
The Shaws distinctive gentrification in the early 19thC includes Swiss chalet style features, which present a highly individual and particularly attractive appearance and enhance the earlier stone building, believed to date from the 1600 and 1700’s. Excellent natural light is evident throughout, the accommodation offering scope for some upgrading whilst also providing a certain versatility to cater for a range of family needs, visiting guests, or perhaps those in need of office or studio space. Around two acres of mature gardens include a number of majestic tress and wrap around the house providing space and opportunity for family recreation and the keen gardener alike.
Enjoying a prime location set away from any main thoroughfare, just ½ mile drive from Matlock’s central amenities and even closer on foot, the town’s surrounding Derwent Valley countryside is on the doorstep. The property is ideally placed to cater for everyday needs, with the local train station close-by providing commuter links to the national network, whilst good road communications lead to the neighbouring centres of employment, M1 J28 (11 miles), Sheffield (20 miles), Derby (18 miles), Nottingham 24 miles.
Accommodation
Sitting room – 5.55m x 4.59m (18’ 3” x 15’ 1”) a formal drawing room featuring a corniced ceiling, panelled casement to the front window, broad second window facing the side and as a focal point to the room a marble fireplace with corbelled mantel and open fire grate. Bi-folding doors provide an open aspect to the…
Dining room – 4.42m x 4.58m (14’ 6” x 15’) maximum, with a pair of fully glazed windows above a low cutstone step. There are views across the garden and beyond, a feature stone fireplace, corniced ceiling and door from the hallway.
From the hallway, a side lobby leads into the…
Dining kitchen – 5.5m x 3.94m (18’ 1” x 12’ 11”) with ceramic tiled floor, rough plaster walls and the kitchen area being fitted with a range of limed oak fronted cupboard and drawers and work surfaces which incorporate a stainless steel sink unit and black ceramic hob. Integral appliances include eye level electric oven and grill, fridge and freezer, plumbing for a dishwasher. There are two broad windows facing the rear gardens and a period panelled door opening to the…
Living room – 3.69m x 3.99m (12’ 1” x 13’ 1”) with panelling to the chimney breast, surrounding walls and door casements, built-in book shelving and an interesting stone fireplace with an arched cutstone head and stone slabbed hearth. There is a front facing window with views towards the town across the garden.
To one side of the main building, a half glazed…
Porch / sunroom – 3.83m x 2.51m (12’ 7” x 8’ 3”) includes double doors, ceramic tiled floor and shelters the side entrance to the house, which opens to a reception hall with ceramic tiled floor, window to the front and door off to a…
Downstairs WC - with low flush WC, pedestal wash hand basin.
Pantry – adjacent to the kitchen, accessed off the hallway, a good sized walk-in storage space.
Cloakroom / utility room – 3.2m x 2.49m (10’ 6” x 8’ 2”) an excellent boot room and laundry with a front facing window, Belfast style pot sink and the wall mounted gas fired combination boiler, which serves the central heating and hot water system. A second door opens to a…
Store room – an ideal pantry or other ancillary storage space, including an external door from the driveway.
From the inner hallway, stairs rise in a dog leg fashion to a galleried landing with a tall shuttered window on the stairs return and the landing leading off to an enclosed side lobby.
Bedroom 1 – 4.7m x 4.32m (15’ 5” x 14’ 2”) with a range of built-in wardrobing and dual aspect windows, one across the gardens to the front with views beyond the mature beech trees to the wooded slopes above Lumsdale and Tansley Moor. The side window looks across the adjoining fields to Hackney and Darley Hillside beyond.
Bedroom 2 – 4.32m x 3.75m (14’ 2” x 12’ 4”) a second double bedroom, full height wardrobing and casement window facing the front.
Bathroom – 3.69m x 3.16m (12’ 1” x 10’ 5”) featuring a large burgundy bath sunken within a raised plinth. A similar wash hand basin is set to a marble vanity surface with mirrored back. There is full height ceramic tiling and built-in pine fronted linen storage.
Bedroom 3 – 4.59m x 2.93m (15’ 1” x 9’ 8”) with wardrobing fitted to one end and rear aspect window.
From the landing a door encloses a further lobby, which leads to a shower room and garden room / studio.
Shower room – fitted with a white suite to include a walk-in shower cubicle, wash hand basin and low flush WC.
Garden/Family room – 7.99m x 3.2m (26’ 3” x 10’ 6”) a substantial room providing additional and versatile living or work space with views of three aspects of the garden and access directly through two separate patio doors.
Off the first floor landing, two separate flights of stairs lead to additional attic rooms.
Attic room 1 – 4.68m x 4.46m (15’ 4” x 14’ 8”) with Velux roof light, a great room for teenagers.
Attic room 2 – 2.29m x 4.46m (14’ 8” x 7’ 6”) accessed off the same stairs, a useful room with views down the valley.
Attic room 3 - 3.69m x 3.25m (12’ 1” x 10’ 8”) another room or bedroom with built-in wardrobe and window the gable wall.
Outside
The Shaws stands to a mature garden plot estimated to extend to around two acres. To the front of the property, a winding drive leads from the lane side and to the house where there is a broad area of courtyard parking. The driveway sweeps through the front garden to provide in and out access.
A gently sloping site provides extensive gardens which surround the house with informal lawns stretching out to the front and including mature copper beech and other trees within the lower boundary which provide privacy interest. To the side and rear, the gardens rise up with a bankside orchard and similar lawns, all offering ample space for family recreation and for the keen gardener alike.
At the head of the driveway and adjacent to the house are outbuildings to include a Detached stone barn garage, a period building with a pitched tiled roof and substantial sliding wooden doors to the front, adapted for garaging. Adjoining the barn to one side is an additional single garage with up and over door of flat roof design. A smaller stone built garden store lies within the rear boundary.
Tenure – Freehold.
Services – All mains services are available to the property, which enjoys the benefit of gas fired central heating and part sealed unit double glazing. No specific test has been made on the services or their distribution.
EPC rating – Current 41E / Potential 66D
council tax – Band F
fixtures & fittings – Only the fixtures and fittings mentioned in these sales particulars are included in the sale. Certain other items may be taken at valuation if required. No specific test has been made on any appliance either included or available by negotiation.
Directions – From Matlock Crown Square, leave on Bakewell Road and at the traffic island turn left onto Derwent Way, then at the traffic lights turn right into Cawdor Way before turning right again onto Matlock Spa Road. Rise up the hill before turning sharp left onto Snitterton Road and continue for around half a mile. Just before the turn to Salters Lane turn right onto the driveway and gates (No. 55), which leads directly to the house.
Viewing – Strictly by prior arrangement with the Matlock office .
Ref: FTM10145
The Shaws distinctive gentrification in the early 19thC includes Swiss chalet style features, which present a highly individual and particularly attractive appearance and enhance the earlier stone building, believed to date from the 1600 and 1700’s. Excellent natural light is evident throughout, the accommodation offering scope for some upgrading whilst also providing a certain versatility to cater for a range of family needs, visiting guests, or perhaps those in need of office or studio space. Around two acres of mature gardens include a number of majestic tress and wrap around the house providing space and opportunity for family recreation and the keen gardener alike.
Enjoying a prime location set away from any main thoroughfare, just ½ mile drive from Matlock’s central amenities and even closer on foot, the town’s surrounding Derwent Valley countryside is on the doorstep. The property is ideally placed to cater for everyday needs, with the local train station close-by providing commuter links to the national network, whilst good road communications lead to the neighbouring centres of employment, M1 J28 (11 miles), Sheffield (20 miles), Derby (18 miles), Nottingham 24 miles.
Accommodation
Sitting room – 5.55m x 4.59m (18’ 3” x 15’ 1”) a formal drawing room featuring a corniced ceiling, panelled casement to the front window, broad second window facing the side and as a focal point to the room a marble fireplace with corbelled mantel and open fire grate. Bi-folding doors provide an open aspect to the…
Dining room – 4.42m x 4.58m (14’ 6” x 15’) maximum, with a pair of fully glazed windows above a low cutstone step. There are views across the garden and beyond, a feature stone fireplace, corniced ceiling and door from the hallway.
From the hallway, a side lobby leads into the…
Dining kitchen – 5.5m x 3.94m (18’ 1” x 12’ 11”) with ceramic tiled floor, rough plaster walls and the kitchen area being fitted with a range of limed oak fronted cupboard and drawers and work surfaces which incorporate a stainless steel sink unit and black ceramic hob. Integral appliances include eye level electric oven and grill, fridge and freezer, plumbing for a dishwasher. There are two broad windows facing the rear gardens and a period panelled door opening to the…
Living room – 3.69m x 3.99m (12’ 1” x 13’ 1”) with panelling to the chimney breast, surrounding walls and door casements, built-in book shelving and an interesting stone fireplace with an arched cutstone head and stone slabbed hearth. There is a front facing window with views towards the town across the garden.
To one side of the main building, a half glazed…
Porch / sunroom – 3.83m x 2.51m (12’ 7” x 8’ 3”) includes double doors, ceramic tiled floor and shelters the side entrance to the house, which opens to a reception hall with ceramic tiled floor, window to the front and door off to a…
Downstairs WC - with low flush WC, pedestal wash hand basin.
Pantry – adjacent to the kitchen, accessed off the hallway, a good sized walk-in storage space.
Cloakroom / utility room – 3.2m x 2.49m (10’ 6” x 8’ 2”) an excellent boot room and laundry with a front facing window, Belfast style pot sink and the wall mounted gas fired combination boiler, which serves the central heating and hot water system. A second door opens to a…
Store room – an ideal pantry or other ancillary storage space, including an external door from the driveway.
From the inner hallway, stairs rise in a dog leg fashion to a galleried landing with a tall shuttered window on the stairs return and the landing leading off to an enclosed side lobby.
Bedroom 1 – 4.7m x 4.32m (15’ 5” x 14’ 2”) with a range of built-in wardrobing and dual aspect windows, one across the gardens to the front with views beyond the mature beech trees to the wooded slopes above Lumsdale and Tansley Moor. The side window looks across the adjoining fields to Hackney and Darley Hillside beyond.
Bedroom 2 – 4.32m x 3.75m (14’ 2” x 12’ 4”) a second double bedroom, full height wardrobing and casement window facing the front.
Bathroom – 3.69m x 3.16m (12’ 1” x 10’ 5”) featuring a large burgundy bath sunken within a raised plinth. A similar wash hand basin is set to a marble vanity surface with mirrored back. There is full height ceramic tiling and built-in pine fronted linen storage.
Bedroom 3 – 4.59m x 2.93m (15’ 1” x 9’ 8”) with wardrobing fitted to one end and rear aspect window.
From the landing a door encloses a further lobby, which leads to a shower room and garden room / studio.
Shower room – fitted with a white suite to include a walk-in shower cubicle, wash hand basin and low flush WC.
Garden/Family room – 7.99m x 3.2m (26’ 3” x 10’ 6”) a substantial room providing additional and versatile living or work space with views of three aspects of the garden and access directly through two separate patio doors.
Off the first floor landing, two separate flights of stairs lead to additional attic rooms.
Attic room 1 – 4.68m x 4.46m (15’ 4” x 14’ 8”) with Velux roof light, a great room for teenagers.
Attic room 2 – 2.29m x 4.46m (14’ 8” x 7’ 6”) accessed off the same stairs, a useful room with views down the valley.
Attic room 3 - 3.69m x 3.25m (12’ 1” x 10’ 8”) another room or bedroom with built-in wardrobe and window the gable wall.
Outside
The Shaws stands to a mature garden plot estimated to extend to around two acres. To the front of the property, a winding drive leads from the lane side and to the house where there is a broad area of courtyard parking. The driveway sweeps through the front garden to provide in and out access.
A gently sloping site provides extensive gardens which surround the house with informal lawns stretching out to the front and including mature copper beech and other trees within the lower boundary which provide privacy interest. To the side and rear, the gardens rise up with a bankside orchard and similar lawns, all offering ample space for family recreation and for the keen gardener alike.
At the head of the driveway and adjacent to the house are outbuildings to include a Detached stone barn garage, a period building with a pitched tiled roof and substantial sliding wooden doors to the front, adapted for garaging. Adjoining the barn to one side is an additional single garage with up and over door of flat roof design. A smaller stone built garden store lies within the rear boundary.
Tenure – Freehold.
Services – All mains services are available to the property, which enjoys the benefit of gas fired central heating and part sealed unit double glazing. No specific test has been made on the services or their distribution.
EPC rating – Current 41E / Potential 66D
council tax – Band F
fixtures & fittings – Only the fixtures and fittings mentioned in these sales particulars are included in the sale. Certain other items may be taken at valuation if required. No specific test has been made on any appliance either included or available by negotiation.
Directions – From Matlock Crown Square, leave on Bakewell Road and at the traffic island turn left onto Derwent Way, then at the traffic lights turn right into Cawdor Way before turning right again onto Matlock Spa Road. Rise up the hill before turning sharp left onto Snitterton Road and continue for around half a mile. Just before the turn to Salters Lane turn right onto the driveway and gates (No. 55), which leads directly to the house.
Viewing – Strictly by prior arrangement with the Matlock office .
Ref: FTM10145
There are some planning applications within 0.5 miles of this home
Assess how they might enhance or detract from this home’s value.
Floor plans and tours
Floor plans (2)
Tours
No virtual tour available
More information
Unlock more data
Listed by
Fidler Taylor
View agent properties.png){kind=logo}
Property descriptions and related information displayed on this page are marketing materials provided by - Fidler Taylor. Zoopla does not warrant or accept any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the property descriptions or related information provided here and they do not constitute property particulars. Please contact Fidler Taylor for full details and further information.