21 & 21A OXFORD ROAD

COLCHESTER

 

Price on application

FREEHOLD

SUBJECT TO CONTRACT

 

 

LOCATION

 

The subject premises are situated on the south western side of Colchester town centre in an extremely sought after commercial and residential area, being only a few minutes walk from the town centre itself.  Whilst 21a is a small detached dwelling house. 21a Oxford Road is a substantial building, which has been utilized commercially for a good many years and at one time, was used as a preparatory school.

 

The premises have direct frontage to Oxford Road, and while there is no direct pedestrian or vehicular access to the premises from Creffield Road, the accessibility to the premises is satisfactory.  We enclose herewith a copy of an Ordnance Survey showing approximately the size of the premises and their location in relation to environs and also frontal colour photographs of both 21 and 21a Oxford Road.

 

 

 

 

 

 

DESCRIPTION

 

Number 21a Oxford Road comprises a small detached, two storey building, formally a Coach House and more latterly a double-sized garage, which was converted to a detached private dwelling house in or about 1996 and we understand that planning permission for such change of use was obtained at that time.

 

 

The accommodation of 21a Oxford Road comprises:-

 

Ground Floor

 

Entrance hall, shower room with W.C., bedroom.

 

First Floor

 

Staircase leads to lounge/dining area together with kitchen area.

 

This is a compact dwelling.  There is no garden, however there are two on-site car parking spaces, included with number 21a Oxford Road and adjacent thereto immediately to the north side of the now dwelling house.  We compute the gross external floor area of the living accommodation to be approximately 44 sq.m (about 480 sq. ft).

 

This building has a pitched timber framed roof, covered with plain clay tiles, while the walls appear to be predominantly of brick construction, with external rendered elevations.  Suspended timber upper floor, solid ground floor.   

 

 

NUMBER 21 OXFORD ROAD

 

Number 21 Oxford Road comprises a substantial, part two storey and part four storey, end terrace building in part dating from the late 19th century, i.e. about 1880 with a substantial two storey southern extension, thought to be about 30 years old. 

This property is used primarily as commercial premises, however it does contain a small flat, currently occupied by one of the company employees of “Lifeforce”, a Limited Company practicing as an alternative therapy clinic.

Briefly, the accommodation comprises:-

 

Lower Ground Floor

 

Access corridor leads to:

 

Amber Room                                       approximately 4.14m x 1.86m (about 7.7sq.m)

 

Pearl Room                                                      approximately 3.66m x 5m (about 18.5 sq.m)

 

Toilet and shower room

 

Kitchen                                                                        approximately 2.44m x 3.75m

 

Ground Floor

 

Entrance hall/lobby/reception area

 

Lecture room                                        approximately 5.96m x 8.6m (51 sq.m)

 

Lavatory facility

 

Kitchen/Dining room                             approximately 6.9m x 2.44m

 

Lecture room No. 2                              approximately 6.08m x 4.19m (about 25.5 sq.m)

 

Second Reception lobby area

 

Office                                                               approximately 4.3m x 4.32m (18.5 sq.m)

 

First Floor

 

Landing

 

Coral Room                                         approximately 6m x 4m (about 24 sq.m)

 

Emerald Room                                     approximately 4.35m x 4.4m (19sq.m)

 

Self Contained Flat                                           with entrance hall, kitchen, dining room, sitting room, shower room with W.C. and one double-sized bedroom.

 

Lecture Room No. 2                                        approximately 19.6m x 28.6m (about 51.6sq.m)

 

Second Floor

 

Landing

 

Office/room                                          approximately 2.9m x 4.7m (13.6 sq.m)

 

Opal Room                                                      approximately 6.59m x 4.2m with external balcony (about 27.6 sq.m)

 

Amethyst Room                                                approximately 3.25m x 3.5m (about 11.4 sq.m)

 

Ladies Lavatory facility

 

Third Floor

 

Staff Rest Room                                               approximately 5.12m x 1.78m (9.1 sq.m)

 

In addition to the above accommodation there are some tended gardens to the eastern side of

the building between the structure and Oxford Road, while to the western side of the southern part

of  the building are car parking facilities for about 6 private vehicles and this land is included

within the sale of 21 Oxford Road.

 

Briefly, the main walls of 21 Oxford Road are part of brick and part of stone and also partly 

cavity brickwork, while the roof is predominantly pitched and clay tiled, with some other pitched

roof and flat roofed sections.  Suspended timber upper floors, part suspended timber and part solid

ground and solid floors to the basement.

 

We compute the net internal useful commercial floor area of this building to be approximately

294 sq.m (about 3,160 sq.ft) and thus this is a good size, providing spacious office type

accommodation.  

 

 

REPAIR AND CONDITION

 

We have not carried out a structural survey, however, based on superficial inspection for valuation

purposes only, no major or severe structural defects or fundamental wants of repair were noted to

the premises.