Edinburgh Lodge,, Orpington
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Key Features:
- One bedroom ground floor retirement apartment
- Own Patio area overlooking the communal gardens
- Excellent decorative order throughout
- Modern fitted kitchen with integrated appliances
- Lodge Manager available 5 days a week
- Owners’ Lounge & coffee bar with regular social events
- 24 hour Careline system for safety and security
- Close to the town centre & excellent transport links
- Owners’ private car park
- A Guest Suite is available for your friends and family to stay in. In addition, you are entitled to use of the Guest Suites at all Churchill Retirement Living developments across the country.
Description:
Churchill Sales & Lettings are delighted to be marketing this stunning one bedroom ground floor apartment overlooking the communal garden. This spacious property is presented in fantastic decorative order throughout.
The Lounge offers ample space for living and dining room furniture and with a door opening onto the Patio area.
The modern Kitchen is accessed via the Lounge and offers a range of eye and base level units with working surfaces over and tiled splashbacks. There is a built in waist height oven, 4 ring electric hob with extractor hood over, a fridge, a frost-free freezer, dishwasher and washer/dryer. A window allows for light and ventilation.
The Bedroom is a generous double room with a useful walk-in wardrobe and plenty of space for additional bedroom furniture if required.
The Wet Room offers a large walk-in shower with screen, handrail, heated towel rail, a WC and wash hand basin with vanity unit beneath.
Perfectly complementing this wonderful apartment is a useful storage cupboard located in the hallway.
Edinburgh Lodge is a charming development of 27 one and two-bedroom retirement apartments situated in an ideal position close to the essential amenities. Shopping and leisure facilities are plentiful in Orpington; the Walnuts Shopping Centre houses the Library, Odeon Cinema and the Nugent Shopping Park providing a variety of shops in addition to those in Orpington’s High Street.
Orpington also has a number of supermarkets, including two superstores. The Walnuts Leisure Centre includes a swimming pool, a gym, multi-purpose sports hall and squash courts.
Situated to the north of the town are Priory Gardens which has ornamental gardens and ponds and is home to a medieval ‘hall house’ containing Bromley Museum. Slightly further out, towards the south of Orpington in Farnborough is the High Elms Country Park Local Nature Reserve – 250 acres of countryside combined with a golf course and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Orpington benefits from good transport links with trains from Orpington offering services to London’s Charing Cross, Cannon Street and Victoria Stations, Tunbridge Wells, Hastings and Sevenoaks. Buses provide links to destinations such as Bromley, Chislehurst, Crystal Palace and Lewisham.
The Lodge manager is on hand throughout the day to support the Owners and keep the development in perfect shape as well as arranging many regular events in the Owners’ Lounge from coffee mornings to games afternoons.
A Guest Suite is available for your friends and family to stay in. In addition, you are entitled to use of the Guest Suites at all Churchill Retirement Living developments across the country. Prices are available from the Lodge Manager.
Edinburgh Lodge has been designed with safety and security at the forefront, the apartment has an emergency Careline system installed, monitored by the onsite Lodge Manager during the day and 24 hours, 365 days a year by the Careline team. A Careline integrated intruder alarm, secure video entry system and sophisticated fire and smoke detection systems throughout both the apartment and communal areas provide unrivalled peace of mind.
Edinburgh Lodge is managed by the award winning Churchill Estates Management, working closely with Churchill Retirement Living and Churchill Sales & Lettings to maintain the highest standards of maintenance and service for every lodge and owner.
Edinburgh Lodge requires at least one apartment Owner to be over the age of 60 with any second Owner over the age of 55.
Service Charge (Year ending 30th November 2023) £3,372.52 per annum.
Ground rent £575.00 per annum. To be reviewed January 2032
Council Tax Band D
999 year Lease commencing January 2022
Please check regarding Pets with Churchill Estates Management
Service charges include: Careline system, buildings insurance, water and sewerage rates, communal cleaning, utilities and maintenance, garden maintenance, lift maintenance, lodge manager and a contribution to the contingency fund.
1% of the final selling price for each sale of the property is payable by the Seller as a contribution to the building contingency fund on completion of the future sale