4. 2 Bedroom Semi-Detached for sale in Aylesbury, HP20

2 Bedroom Semi-Detached for sale in Aylesbury, HP20

Castle Street, Aylesbury, HP20

£235,000

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Tim Russ & Company - Wendover
4 Chiltern Court, Back Street, Wendover,
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01296 621177

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Delightful Grade 11 Listed end of terrace cottage offering a wealth of character with two double bedrooms, first floor bathroom, sitting room with open fireplace, cellar and good sized kitchen/breakfast room, with courtyard garden & gas fired central heating. No Chain.

THE PROPERTY: No 48 Castle Street, also known locally as the Pink Cottage, is a very special and historic Grade 11 Listed cottage in Aylesbury Old Town’s Conservation Area. From 1998 to 2004, the cottage underwent careful conservation repairs using traditional conservation methods, following the guidelines of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), the grandfather organisation of the National Trust. The kitchen is the only area that has not had any major conservation work done – leaving the option to stamp your own conservation mark and sympathetically redesign it around its historic features. Notice that the walls have 1980s plasterboarding – behind this plasterboard are beautiful red brick walls waiting to be exposed to show off their beauty. Some local historians believe that there was no ‘castle’ in the area, but that Castle Street had been gentrified from Cattle/Catte Street, as cattle were driven up the street into Market Square. The earliest the cottage has been dated to is around 1628 (the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I) – this is the cellar, and the large inglenook fireplace and wall with brick section in the sitting room. We believe that just the cellar and sitting room existed originally, with the front bedroom added in the 1700s, and the kitchen and back bedroom added around 1800s. This explains why all the upstairs rooms have vaulted ceilings. Moreover, if the cottage was built during the reign of Elizabeth I, there would have an ‘Elizabethan’ jetty on the frontage, and this was ‘flat-fronted’ by the Georgians. Outside the front windows, overlooking the park, the location of the cottage is just on the edge of the ring of a vast Iron Age fort circling the hill of the Old Town. In the 1700s to 1800s, the park and cottages was also a key farming site for the famous white Aylesbury duck, and at some point, the residents of this cottage would have lived in the cottage with the young ducklings.
GARDENS: To the rear of the property there is a courtyard garden which provides an ideal seating area.

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Aylesbury Vale Parkway
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Stocklake Park Community School
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