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CHAIN FREE: Superbly located within easy reach of the popular Crouch Street shopping parade and Colchester's busy town centre is this spacious, well-maintained, one-bedroom, retirement residence. This top floor flat benefits from a lounge/diner with a decorative fireplace and a Juliet balcony, a double bedroom with double fitted wardrobes, a kitchen and a good sized bathroom. The block provides over 60's accommodation in a development that was built by McCarthy Stone. There are lifts to every floor, a communal lounge, guest suite, laundry facilities and a house manager.

Located just outside the town centre in Colchester, is the popular and modern development of Balkerne Heights granting easy access to restaurants, bars, the vast amounts of shops and the town streets are often lined with stalls on market days. For your entertainment, there is the cinema, Mercury Theatre, Arts Centre, and the historic Castle and its parklands, which often hosts many fetes and concerts. In just under one kilometre from the property is North Station with its direct railway links to Ipswich, Norwich and London Liverpool Street. Service Charge: £2435.68 pa (annual calculation driven by the landlord) --- Ground Rent £395.00 (fixed for 23 years - until 2028) Length of Lease 109 years (125 from 2005)

HALL - 9'6'' x 9' (2.9m x 2.7m)
Security entrance phone, airing cupboard, storage cupboard.

LOUNGE - 16'10'' x 10'7'' (5.1m x 3.2m)
Decorative fire surround, television and telephone point, heater, window to front.

KITCHEN - 7'4'' x 5'10'' (2.2m x 1.8m)
A range of cupboards and drawers, under a roll-edge worktop with coloured splashback tiles and wall-mounted units above, built-in oven, four-ringed hob with extractor above, space for fridge and freezer, stainless-steel sink with drainer, heater, window to side.

BEDROOM - 1 - 13'3'' x 12'10'' (4m x 3.9m)
Double fitted wardrobe, with concertina mirrored doors, telephone point, window to front.

BATHROOM - 6'10'' x 5'8'' (2.1m x 1.7m)
Low level W.C., handwash basin with cupboard under, bath with shower above, patterned tile splashbacks, extractor, heater.

OUTSIDE -
Outside there are communal gardens.

AGENTS NOTE
Service Charge: £2435.68 pa (annual calculation driven by the landlord) --- Ground Rent £395.00 (fixed for 23 years - until 2028) Length of Lease 109 years (125 from 2005)