<b>The Property:</b> <br /><br />A very well presented and more recently refurbished two/three bedroom chalet style property, with a spacious through reception room, modern kitchen and bathrooms and a conservatory with direct to a westerly facing patio and communal gardens.<br /><br /><b>Description:</b> <br /><br />This very well presented and more recently refurbished property has a spacious, through reception room with a dining area, which is conveniently placed for the modern fitted kitchen.<br /><br />There is a westerly facing conservatory, which has direct access to a patio with gardens beyond. The ground floor accommodation also includes a large double bedroom, which has an adjacent shower room.<br /><br />The first floor landing provides access to the master bedroom, which has a dressing room and an en-suite bathroom. The bedroom and dressing room together are well equipped for storage, with wardrobes, drawers and a dressing table.<br /><br />Castle Village offers all residents an independent lifestyle, with the added benefit of 24 hour emergency nursing call out. The focal point is the Mansion House Country Club, with its pleasant restaurant, meeting room, library, snooker room, bar and conservatory, providing a varied social life. Within the grounds there is a tennis court, croquet lawn and putting green, as well as an attractive restored Japanese water garden.<br /><br />GENERAL INFORMATION<br />NB: You must be 55 years or over, to become a resident at Castle Village. If the landlord’s medical advisor is not able to recommend a purchaser for approval to the landlord, the acquisition of lease will not proceed.<br /><br />Lease: 125 years from 2000.<br /><br />Service Charge: Band C - £6,065 per annum (Plus £200.00 per annum for double occupancy).<br /><br />Ground Rent: £250 per annum.<br /><br />It should be noted that the service charge includes:- Full onsite professional estate management upkeep and maintenance to the exterior and buildings and grounds, buildings insurance, provision of a maintenance reserve fund, heating, lighting and energy costs of communal areas, external window cleaning, external decorating, one hour’s domestic cleaning per week, weekly collection and laundering of bed linen, use of the Castle Village launderette, fitted emergency kick plates in properties, emergency call and monitoring system, GP’s surgery once a week in Castle Village’s own medical centre and 24 hour on-site Health Leads.<br /><br />ASSIGNMENT FEE<br />Owners of a Retirement Villages’ lease are required to pay an assignment fee on re-sale of the property, which is a percentage of the sale value as defined in the lease of 10% on completion. Please ask the village Manager for more details.<br /><br /><b>Location:</b> <br /><br />DIRECTIONS<br />From the High Street in Berkhamsted turn left into Lower Kings Road, continue past the station and turn left under the railway arch into Brownlow Road. After the mini-roundabout follow the road round to the right and turn left at the next T-junction. At the top of the hill turn right and continue past the golf course and turn right again shortly afterwards into Castle Village.