Detached House for sale with 4 bedrooms, Leicester Avenue, Cliftonville

Only a stone’s throw from the clifftop in Cliftonville and located near the end of a leafy avenue is this delightful and extended detached family home. The front is surrounded by a wall with a gated entrance that leads to the garage and a large paved area where you can park a number of vehicles. Although the property has been beautifully modernised to provide everything required for today’s discerning homeowners, it still retains some charming original features such as coved ceilings and ceiling roses, panelled doors, dado rails and a fireplace that add to its special character.

The sliding porch doors open into a porch that leads to the light and bright hall with stairs to the first floor, a large storage cupboard, a downstairs cloakroom with laundry facilities and solid wood flooring that flows through into a spacious family room/fifth bedroom. This is currently designed as a snooker room but could also be a separate dining room, a good sized office or a fifth bedroom.

A superb lounge includes a charming cast iron fireplace with an open fire and oak and glass bi-fold doors to the current dining room and, when these doors are pulled back, it provides a large, modern open plan space. This can be enhanced even further when the set of bi-fold doors from the dining room to the rear terrace are open and you can feel you are bringing the outdoors inside.

In the dining room there is also a wall of fitted bookshelves and a door to the stunning and contemporary kitchen/breakfast room. This includes a delightful mix of black and white flat-fronted units with black sparkly quartz worktops housing a gas hob, two built in ovens, a microwave, dishwasher, fridge and freezer as well as a peninsular breakfast bar and French doors to the garden.

The modern staircase has an oak and glass balustrade and leads to a half landing with full height windows giving plenty of natural light, while the galleried landing with its impressive chandelier provides access to the contemporary family wet room and four double bedrooms. These include the second bedroom with fitted cupboards and an en suite shower room and the opulent main bedroom that has a dressing area, plenty of mirrored wardrobes, an excellent shoe cupboard and a luxurious en suite bathroom with a large bath.

Outside, the large rear garden has something for everyone. There is a modern decked terrace that spans the width of the property and is ideal for those barbecues and al fresco dining, while at the other end of the garden there is a splash pool and a delightful summerhouse. This has solid flooring, lighting and electrics as well as a cloakroom so could always become an outdoor office for anyone working from home who doesn’t want to be disturbed. There is also a very smart potting shed, a modern greenhouse, raised vegetable beds and large swathes of lawn interspersed with impressive trees and shrubs.