Welcome to Leamoor Derby Road, Matlock, a cozy and compact semi-detached type home with 3 bed in the DE4 4AR area. This lovely residence, which comes with the freedom and stability of a freehold ownership, and sits comfortably in tax band .
This classic property was built
The local area is known for its high value-to-quality ratio -
with a market valuation of £80,600 and a rental potential of £524 per month,
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it represents not just a residence but a worthwhile investment in a sought-after area.
You can discover more about this property by reading the Mouseprice attributes tables in the next section, or if you are the owner and would like to update this property, for example if you've built an extension, you can do so at the top of this page.
In addition to our own current description, this property has received a tailor-made description dated to Dec 25, 2013. It's possible the property has changed since then,
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A well presented three bedroom semi-detached house which is a credit to the current owner and is positioned within this popular location close to local amenities, good schools and transport links.
Benefitting from many fine features, the accommodation comprises modern facilities including a spacious, welcoming lounge, an attractive fitted kitchen, spacious cellar storage, contemporary style bathroom and good size bedrooms and attic room. There is ample garden space also, with rear vehicular access.
Please see the floor plan and photographs for further information and why not book an appointment to view?
This is a 1920s bayfront semidetached, five minute's walk from all the amenities of Wirksworth centre, with gardens front and back.
The current owners have made a list of improvements: new roof covering, attic conversion, hardwood double glazed windows, new bathroom, new gas central heating with thermostatically controlled radiators, electrical rewiring, woodworm treatment, drain and guttering overhaul, drylining, insulation, new kitchen units, new wooden and cork flooring, finished with extensive use of ecological paints and varnishes.
At the back there is a large (46m x 10m) well-stocked 'organic' garden, with flourishing soft fruits, (raspberry, blackcurrant, redcurrant, strawberry, and wild strawberry) and fruit trees, (cooking, eating and crab apples, pear, victoria plum, greengage and 'black mirabel' plum). There are also many culinary herbs, medicinal plants and a wide range of flowers. The soil is fertile and there are plenty of birds and other small wildlife, including frogs, newts, and dragonflies round the ponds; and butterflies, hoverflies and bumble and honey bees in warmer weather. Various small native trees also enrich the habitat, (hazel, holly, rowan, yew, hawthorn, elder, whitebeam and willow). This garden has a really handy back lane, shared with other houses on the row, to the parking space for four cars, and entry to the garden. There are at present two small sheds next to the parking.
The 17m x 10m front garden has a well established bed of flowering bushes and small native trees providing a screen from the road and has been recently partially converted to veg growing. There is also a good selection of cottage garden flowers.
Entering by the porched front door, the hallway (4.8m x 2.1m) has a varnished wood floor, phone point, radiator and two understairs cupboards, has a window looking out to the front garden, and leads to the kitchen, living room and study/ bedroom 1. It has a unique period banister and a built-in feature mirror 'display cabinet'.
The compact kitchen (3.5m x 2.5m) leads down to the cellars, out to the handy utility with w.c., and has windows looking over the back garden and through to the lean-to. It has birch fronted units, a carousel corner unit, space for fridge and gas cooker, laminated beech worktop, stainless steel sink with mixer tap, half sink and drainer, a full height pullout larder unit and cork flooring.
The sitting room
(5.3m x 3.7m) is large enough to provide various zones for e.g. eating, sitting and 'admin' and has great views eastwards over the back garden and up to the hills beyond. Despite being a good size, it is a cosy room, with a big radiator. There is a unique period fireplace, at present containing a small wood burner which won't be staying, which could have a grate or woodburner reinstated. There is a varnished wooden floor and a handy 'serving hatch' through to the kitchen. The exterior wall and extension roof space above have both been very well insulated.
With some unique features, including sloping 'blanket shelves', an overhead 'cabin storage' rack and a custom paint design, this room
(3.3m x 3.9m) at present functions as a study/music room/bedroom 1. It also has built-in level shelving, a lifting desk, an alcove cupboard and a radiator, and looks out west to the front garden through a wide bay window. There is a walled up chimney which at present takes the flue from the defunct gas boiler (now removed) in the cellar below, so could be put to use again.
Cellars 1, 2 and 3, (3m x4.5m, 2.5m x 3m, 2.5m x 2m) These versatile storage spaces have a multitude of uses: in our case, events materials, packaging, firewood, building timber, tools, homebrew, bric-a-brac etc. All three have concrete floors and are lit. Two have power points. One has a radiator and one also has a chute from the outside, useful for stowing firewood or coal. A set of wooden steps leads down from the kitchen. Full of stuff and difficult to photograph!
The bathroom, two bedrooms and attic 'anteroom' all lead from the upstairs landing, which has a good view over the neighbouring houses and up to Bolehill.
The bathroom
(2.35m x 2.25m) has been extensively reworked and is now a warm and delightful room. The two external walls have been insulated and drylined, the ceiling is new and also insulated. It has a dark cork floor, new bathroom suite including a 'shower bath,' an electric shower, space heater and heated towel rail. There is a cupboard which once contained the hot tank, which now holds the central heating boiler and provides some 'airing cupboard' space.
There is quite a bit of built in storage in bedroom 2 (3m x 3.7m) on either side of the chimney breast, great views eastwards over the back garden and up to the hills, and a radiator for warmth.
Again, storage possibilities either side of the chimney breast are useful here in bedroom 3, (3.3m x 3.3m) plus a radiator for warmth, and plenty of light from the wide window looking west over the front garden.
Originally a box bedroom, the ‘anteroom’ (2.3m x 2.1m) is now fitted as a small workroom with access to the attic . Along with the bathroom it had a new wooden floor laid, and has radiator heating. An alternating staircase leads to the attic.
Converted at the same time as the roof refit, this spacious room
(4.3m x 5.1m) occupies the whole area of the top of the house. The roof is well insulated and has two velux windows, one looking east over the front garden, one west over the back and over to the hills. There is a third 'escape window' giving a lovely view to the town centre and Bolehill beyond. It has a low voltage lighting rig along the ceiling apex as well as 'bulkhead' LED lights up the alternating stairs. The joists of the varnished wood floor are supported on a steel subframe, with fire retardant insulation and an air gap between the attic floor and the bedroom ceilings below. This makes this room surprisingly acoustically insulated from below, allowing a good degree of independence. There is plenty of storage space in the eaves on one side, and open space on the other. It has original feature brick pillars either side of one gable, two sturdy beams running the length of the room, and two small radiators which, despite their size, provide warmth for this well insulated room at the top of the house. Since being finished in 2005 it has been used as bedroom/living room by both our teenagers in turn, and though not as yet 'signed off' in finer detail by the buildings regs inspector, this space is much loved and all work done is up to scratch.
As mentioned, Leamoor is five minutes' walk from Wirksworth town centre, and for its size Wirksworth has a lot to offer: schools from primary through secondary and 6th form; a post office, cinema, banks, pubs, co-op, baker, chemist, garage, vehicle repair shops, hairdressers, estate agents, antique shops, convenience stores including organic supplies, newsagents, electrical and outdoor goods and medical centre, not to mention half a dozen eateries, takeaways and places of worship. The town hall, sports centre and other premises provide venues for numerous events, groups and activities, not to mention the now nationally famous two week arts festival which showcases the extensive and thriving local creative and alternative community. It is well served with buses to Matlock, Ashbourne, Bakewell, and Derby, and a newly refurbished heritage rail line connects to the Derby-Chesterfield mainline at Duffield, while the Derby-Matlock line passes close by at Cromford. The commercial and cultural centres of Derby, Sheffield, Buxton, Nottingham, Stoke and Leicester are all within an hour's drive, while at the same time the renowned countryside of the Peak District National Park stretches away for miles to the west and north, with numerous attractive villages, scenic walks, activities and other outdoor opportunities. Wirksworth itself is the hub of a network of fine, well-used footpaths spreading out for miles across the local countryside.
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