renovated spacious family house ideal for sale in derby near university £230,000

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3 Bedroomed, and several reception rooms, sizeable, terraced house for sale close to Derby main campus university completely renovated in safe area opposite Markeaton Park.  

Close to Bus Route for all the other Campuses.

Bought 22 years ago in order to house our daughter attending university doing Fine Art Therapy. 

The Basement room was tanked and plastered finished turning the 1890 room into dry storage utilizing basement room storing Fine Art. Lately used as a dining room having a low ceiling approx. 6ft height limited daylight  and thus unsuitable as a bedroom. Last was painted, carpeted, has warmth, rad, and carpeted staircase so that residents despite limited head room can enjoy the space. 

The entrance boasts a front bedroom, with 2 more bedrooms located on the first floor. Of the two 1st floor bedrooms one of the bedrooms i.e. the rear bedroom is in fact 2 bedrooms in one (having a study attached to the bedroom) 

Of the 3 bedrooms two are doubles and the remaining a single bedroom.

On the ground floor the lounge is located at the rear, with access to the Galley kitchen, an slim room containing many fitted units and most mod cons plus a window. Polished 100% wood worktops are oiled, rounded and shaped.

The kitchen has a washing machine, stand-alone cooker several fans and array of power sockets and an low level fridge. 

Access to the conservatory is through pine fully glazed French double-glazed doors via keyless fire escape locking. Residents use the area as a utility room housing units, and a fridge freezer. Access to garden via ancient half glazed door with keyless easy egress door locks for fire safety.

Conservatory Has two glazed walls on dwarf masonry walling on foundations and off concrete slabbing, and plastic sloped roofing to new guttering. Boundary In solid masonry, plastered.

The house benefits from double glazing throughout, warm kitchen flooring on 50mm Celotex, deep roof insulation, insulation sound-proofing basement ceiling, and insulation built into the basement boundary walling. The internal partitioning contains soundproofing insulation, and heating’s from a newish gas boiler HE Combi. The latter insulation makes the house EPC  C ensuring efficiency and reasonable heating bills. Most radiators are newish with most having TVRs. Most lightings low energy.

Theres 2 washroom areas one having power shower (10.5kw electric) bath, w c and basin, the other having a boiler, wc and basin. The sanitary items are fairly new. 

The 6 x internal doors panelled fire doors and frames accessing the 3 bedrooms , basement room and both wash areas are in 30-minute fire resisting, with where possible Georgian cast wired glass achieving 30 Minute fire resistance. 

The original 5 x pitched pine panelled doors have been dipped, and re-stained and finished in dark pine colour, with deep hardwood thresholds by lounge and various cupboards.

Washroom / kitchen and utility room flooring is hardwearing vinyl over structure, and the rooms have underlay and fitted carpets with carpet edgings. Most thresholds beneath room doors are in shaped hardwood treated /Stained to suit.

The house has cornices, picture rails and dado rails throughout most areas and the Victorian features have been kept. Bedroom one, two and three have fitted cupboards with fenestration and panelling.

Bedroom one, three and lounge have fireplaces, with bedroom three and lounge having cast iron fire surrounds and different types of hearths. All 3 fireplaces have mantle pieces. Bedroom one has masonry features surrounding the fireplace. All 3 fireplaces are closed, and flues temporarily closed as the flues haven’t got certificates. 

The basement room has a fire-surround that’s structural and cannot be used as there’s no basement flue.

The main stacks still in place but some are capped, and others are vented. The lounge back boilers and metal copex flue linings. removed and now unused. 

Most rooms have aerial cable and TV sockets (traditional tv) cables buried in structure. A new aerial fitted with 6 way booster feeding about 6 tv sockets. 

The house has been substantially rewired and has electrical testing done and renewed consumer unit. The meters in the basement and consumer units located on the 1stfloor entrance hall.

Interconnected Detectors cover kitchen, every room , loft and common areas including basement . 

The house has far more than average power and spur points as well as lighting points. Kitchen conservatory, Washrooms and hallways are automatically lighted without light switches as the controls are ceiling motion detectors. Lounge has special lighting, lowered ceiling and hidden lighting. Some LEDs Lighting.

The house has firefighting equipment throughout (removable) 

The 6 fire doors don’t have internal Keys but are lockable but keyless aiding escape. Locking’s possible to the 3x bedroom doors from the hall side, with a key. The entrance hall side of the front door is keyless and escapable as it the rear external doors. The doors meet escape rules making fast fire escape possible.

The 1st floor window to bedroom 2 has escape facilities and centre pivot windows to bedroom one and be adult opened in case of fire aiding escape.

The house has signs, and fire escape signs and there’s a side alleyway accessed from the rear whereby residents can egress the property easily ending up in the highway. 

Residents have a garden shed where bikes can be stored. The gardens well lit with auto night lights aiding escape. The gardens in hard surfaces, with some earth borders. The boundaries in high fencing or walling.

The roofs in man-made slates, lead, and a variety of flashings. The facias and eaves in painted timber, and some ventilated. Walling in solid brickwork with mainly stone cills. Most frames are traditionally set back 100mm. Stacks are in brickwork and lead and other materials flashed. roof is ventilated and slates have underlay in most practical areas. 

90% of the frames are in timber aiding /reducing heat loss. The rest are in PVC. 

DPC work was carried out years ago with guarantee paperwork lapsed years ago but DPC still in place in most cases. DPC work has been redone in some places by builders over the years where structure was uncovered from time to time but unguaranteed. The house benefits from waterproof semi or fully engineering solid brickwork some wider than the brickwork above below ground to above floor levels aiding /Holding back damp. 

The quarry tiled GF to lounge and part of GF Hallway remains intact and kept as a feature. Allowed to breath covering some areas with rugs. The quarry tiles to kitchen remain but covered with a warm lightweight floor. (50mm Celotex) raising kitchen floor enabling a 100 instead of the initial 150mm step.

Conservatory vented via boundary wall and top light window sash. All timber windows vented with top lights. 

The 1880  circ  Basement room, original , floor, and walls were  tanked around 2002 and walls Insulated galvanised metal studding  , drylined plastered Has ceilings and painted . Has 2nd fix fenistration Like an fire door skirtings and shelving , GF  floor support and insulated for sound from the GF room. The original masonry  staircase was retained being of a reasonable gradient and carpeted. Has false strings proper handrails and height signs. An fully openable new  window was installed in the original well opening up beneath the foot path.   The  light well was white pvc boarded and dealt with .The windows UVPC double glazed casement with a blind. The area carpeted Deemed storage as an 19th century basement 145 yrs ago doesnt meet 2025 building control rules and never will .Has low head room and  inperfect excape typical 19th century ,thus not deemed habitable  but never-the-less  a usefull deemed large storage  space . Like anything victorian facility doesnt/ isnt/Cant  meet todays building regulation  rules , so not deemed  habitable/ and thus not guaranteed . Benefits from a radiator , lighting and an array of double socket outlets, in case an resident wants to use the space as an office. The fire surround was kept but disused and the flue disconnected. Suprisingly quiet as separated from the rest of the house to a degree. The gas and electrical meter located in basement.  

The Floor to ceiling height is typically high typical of six streets terraces and Victorian terraces in general. Last enables HL picture rails and encourages high skirtings in some rooms. We have been careful to keep the mostly 80s  wooden windows all-be-it double glazed as wood holds heat well and the latter windows seem to be in good condition. Some windows are newish uvpc (Bedroom 2 and basement ). Council wanted bedroom 2 to have an escape window hence uvpc.DG.

This terrace has a huge loft height giving the house scope for an additional large roof room, with the height negating the for an dormer , subject to building regs and planning permission. We looked into the latter some years past but the costs of so doing wouldn’t increase the houses value enough to make it worth it unless the buyer has their own building company. 

The 6 streets area houses being close to the derbys main campus 

The founder is considering retirement , and whilst this dwelling maybe soon vacant it’s an opportunity for  the retiree to  place the dwelling up for sale during the summer for a quick sale. The space has recently undergone an upgrade getting it ready for sale and as such it looks outstanding. An property owned by the founder for many decades, it’s an opportunity for  someone to benefit from the founders surveying  input of renovating property at huge cost , whilst keeping and adding to the Victorian fenestration, fire places, hearths , mantle pieces , brassware ,  quarry tile flooring , cornices, dado/Picture rails , tall skirtings , stone facades, lowered ceilings  and stone  sills gauged arches and much more. During renovations facilities , plumbing heating electrical systems insulation double glazing and so on have been upgraded as well as the ceilings walls , flooring and decorations. Good EPC ratings lowering the power bills. The dwellings ,dry, warm , has most mod cons and cosy , with useful outdoor space also having been upgraded. An array of panelled fire doors and  cupboards , lighting , power points, interconnected detectors and more. Where-ever possible we have reused the properties original doors in upgrading , and sometimes stripping doors (pitched pine) in making more cupboard space.