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INDEX
AUCTIONS........................................ 17
CLASSIFIEDS.................................... 17

RESIDENTIAL
Allan Morris................................... 10
Cawley........................................... 4
Griffiths & Charles......................... 11
Halls............................................... 7
Hills Estate Agents......................... 12
John Sanders.................................. 9
Parkinson Wright........................... 13
SUPER SEMI: 167 Malvern Road. Philip Laney & Jolly......................... 6
RA Bennett..................................... 14

Gardeners Reeds Rains....................................

The Property Centre.....................
Town & Country Property Services..
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will enjoy
Your Move...................................... 8

big grounds TO LET:

Homes
NUMBER 167 Malvern Road, St you can
John’s, Worcester, is an impressive rent.
bay windowed semi-detached home. Pages
It has a sitting room with a coal 18 to 28.
effect gas fire, a dining room with
french doors that open onto FABULOUS VIEW: Enjoy looking across the countryside to the Malvern Hills from 10 Broomhall Cottages. LETTINGS

A popular place to live

decking and a refitted breakfast Allan Morris Lettings....................... 20
kitchen with matching wall and Andrew Grant Lettings................... 21
base units, roll edge work surfaces Belvoir!............................................. 20
and some built-in appliances. Griffiths & Charles........................... 23
Beyond is a rear lobby and a G Herbert Banks.............................. 19
utility/shower room. Upstairs is a Halls.................................................. 18
landing, three bedrooms and a FOR sale signs usually turn to terraced home. On the ground floor has a tiled shower cubicle – and a Hills Estate Agents............................ 22
refitted family bathroom. ‘Sold’ quite quickly at Broomhall the accommodation comprises an shower room. Houselets......................................... 18
Outside is a driveway, a detached Cottages, Broomhall, near entrance porch with laminate There is also a driveway, a garage Lets Rent.......................................... 18
garage and a large rear garden. Worcester. flooring, a sitting room with an and a rear garden with decking and Philip Laney & Jolly........................... 24
Originally built to house soldiers open fireplace, a separate dining a summer house. Premier Places.................................. 28
Reeds Rains...................................... 25
BUYER’S INFO of the Worcestershire Regiment
stationed at nearby Norton
room with a feature fireplace, a
fitted kitchen and a bathroom with
BUYER’S INFO Shelton & Lines................................. 25
PRICE: £349,995 Barracks they have uninterrupted a corner bath and ceramic tiled PRICE: £250,000 Simply Lets....................................... 27
AGENT: HILLS ESTATE AGENTS views of the Malvern Hills. flooring. AGENT: THE PROPERTY CENTRE Town & Country Property Services.. 1, 26
CALL: 01905 723545 Number 10 is a double fronted Upstairs are four bedrooms – one CALL: 01905 22222 Your Move...................................... 19

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Buy into modern family

life with stylish detached
ALLAN MORRIS Mike Pryce goes looking for community spirit and finds it in spades at Worcester’s Warndon Villages

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HE Warndon Villages
ALAN MORRIS development on the
WORCESTERSHIRE eastern side of Worcester,

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sandwiched between the
HIS time last year the M5 and the city centre,
market was relatively has been one of the success stories
buoyant. It had bounced of the last 20 years.
back strongly from two An ambitious project that drew
or three particularly together many national and local
trying years. building companies,it has grown
But now we can see this for what into an extended community pretty
it was. The activity was mainly much as the planners had
through buyers with no need for a envisaged.
mortgage and able to cash in on A popular port of call for young
pent-up demand to sell. families and commuters who want
Now we enter a new phase after quick access to the motorway,
the Government’s unveiling of a there are invariably a good
radical set of measures to curb selection of homes for sale and
public spending. Already the here are four of them.
squeeze can be felt and nowhere The first is 3 Watchetts Green, a
more so than in the property modern detached family home
market. built by Bryant Homes. Situated in
Besides the cutbacks other dark a quiet cul-de-sac, it is approached
forces are now also at work. by a tarmacadam driveway giving
Lenders are still making it hard to access to a canopy porch with part
borrow money – despite their glazed front door with inset leaded
protestations to the contrary. light coloured patterned double
Added to which some sellers, glazed panels.
The reception hall has panelled
THE PROPERTY doors to a lounge, a dining room, a
combined kitchen and breakfast
COLUMN room and an understairs
cloakroom.
encouraged by last year’s price
surge, have been reluctant to The lounge has front facing views
accept the new reality. Overpriced with a bay window, a fireplace with
property is lingering on the an open fire grate, wood laminate
market – ignored by those with as flooring and double doors that lead
much sense as money. through to the dining room. This
But the mist will evaporate to also has a wood laminate floor and
reveal a glorious season of rich double glazed french doors to the
colour and crystal clarity. For the rear garden. GOOD LOOKER: 3 Watchetts Green is in a quiet cul-de-sac at Warndon Villages, Worcester. It has four bedrooms.
property industry it is clear that The fitted kitchen has a range of
this could be a fruitful time for wall and floor mounted units, a On the first floor of 3 Watchetts with a white suite. heating, double glazing and a
those who take care to understand built-in fan assisted electric oven Green are four bedrooms – three The property has a lawned security system.
with a four-ring gas hob and an doubles and one single. The two gardens with shrub borders. A
what is happening.
archway to a utility room where largest have built-in wardrobes and tarmacadam driveway provides
BUYER’S INFO
To get the correct results there is
important work to be done for there are floor mounted units and the master bedroom has an en-suite plenty of off-road parking and PRICE: £229,950
both sellers and buyers. For space and plumbing for a washing shower room. there is also a single garage. AGENT: HALLS
sellers price is the key. They machine and a tumble drier. There is also a family bathroom The house has gas central CALL: 01905 611066
should listen to experienced estate
agents and not make their home
the most expensive in their road, THREE MORE OF A KIND: HOMING IN ON THE AVENUES OF WARNDON VILLAGES
street or lane. They should make it
the most competitive and offer the
best value for money. Buyers like
2 BRIGHT AVENUE 50 MARSH AVENUE 104 HOMESTEAD AVENUE
value for money. Nor should they
be seduced by naive, incompetent
or untruthful agents who flatter to
deceive with inflated valuations.
They should listen to their heads
not their wallets.
Buyers should get their finances
in order – for those with enough
deposit there are some good deals
about – but they should not have
eyes bigger than their pockets.
There will be good choice in the
market so for those with cash or a
mortgage this should be an
excellent time to buy. But it is still
wise to remember that a smaller
Take a look at this four-bedroom detached family Long Meadow is where you’ll find the five- A terraced house, 104 Homestead Avenue can
house in a popular location can
home. It’s 2 Bright Avenue at The Harleys and it’s bedroom house at 50 Marsh Avenue. It has gas be found at Wall Meadow. Ideal for the smaller
often be a better investment than a
being sold with fixtures and fittings, such as fired central heating, double glazing and off-road family or a couple, it has an entrance hall, a
bigger house in a less popular one.
carpets, curtains, blinds, light fittings, sheds and parking for three vehicles. The accommodation lounge with an electric fire, a fitted kitchen with
It may also be timely to
even a hot tub. On the ground floor is a hall, a includes a hall, a fitted kitchen, a sitting room, a french doors to the rear, two bedrooms and a
remember the person who often
sitting room with a bay window, a dining room, a dining room, a cloakroom, a conservatory and a family bathroom with a shower above the bath.
will have as much, if not more,
conservatory, a kitchen/breakfast room with ground floor bedroom with an en suite shower. Double glazing and gas fired central heating have
influence on the selling price of a
granite work surfaces, a utility and a cloakroom. Upstairs, the master bedroom has an en-suite been installed.
property than anyone – a bank or
Upstairs in an en-suite master bedroom, three shower room, three more bedrooms and a The property has allocated off-road parking at the
building society valuer. Right now
more bedrooms and a bathroom. bathroom. The rear garden has a fish pond, a rear and front and rear gardens with a patio and
they are in the driving seat for
Outside is off-road, garage and pretty gardens. pergola and decking. a lawn.
those who need a mortgage or
those selling to someone who PRICE £299,950; AGENT ALLAN MORRIS; PRICE £247,000; AGENT GRIFFITHS & PRICE £134,950; AGENT THE PROPERTY
needs some finance. CALL 01905 612266 CHARLES; CALL 01905 726464 CENTRE; CALL 01905 22222

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PROPERTY PROFILE
SPLIT LEVEL HOME ON AN ELEVATED CORNER PLOT
On the borders of Worcestershire and Herefordshire is 19 Old Forge at Whitbourne –
a beautifully presented split level home.
It is situated on an elevated corner plot which makes it very private. The
accommodation includes a hall, a sitting room, a dining room, a fitted kitchen and an
inner hallway.
The house has two double bedrooms – the potential to build a third bedroom, subject
to planning permission – a bathroom and a cloakroom.
There is also a garage with a utility and splendid landscaped gardens.
PRICE £289,500; AGENT HALLS; CALL 01905 611066

NOBLE HOME: Fieldhead, Astley, near Stourport-on-Severn, has its own heated swimming pool.

Country retreat built

for ex-Prime Minister
FIELDHEAD in the village of cupboards, granite work surfaces double garage with a pitched roof.
Astley, near Stourport-on- and integrated appliances The grounds inlcude several
Severn, is an attractive country including a range cooker. large level lawns interspersed
house that was originally built Adjoining the kitchen is a with low stone walls and paths
in 1930 for Sir Stanley Baldwin, useful and sizeable pantry. wind their way around
three times British Prime On the first floor of Fieldhead, established shrubberies and
Minister. and at the end of the landing, is mature specimen trees.
The leader of the Conservative the large master bedroom which There is also a deep, circular
Party from 1923-1937, Earl has exposed beams and timbers well with a stone retaining wall
Baldwin of Bewdley’s stints at into the pitched roof. It also and canopy and a dovecote.
Number 10 were 1923-24, 1924-29 features a luxury en-suite Beyond the formal gardens is a
and 1935-37. bathroom with a shower, twin woodland walk and at the front
Fieldhead was built while he wash basins and a lavatory. of the house is a kitchen garden
was out of office and it has now There are three more good with soft fruit canes, a former
been extended and enlarged to sized bedrooms each one brick pigsty that now provides
create a high specification enjoying a view of the useful storage and a greenhouse.
family home in a glorious rural countryside. Fieldhead also has a swimming
setting. The bedrooms are serviced by pool complex enclosed by a brick
It has a timber framed and a well appointed family wall. It includes a heated pool
tiled porch that leads into a bathroom. with a paved surround,
reception hall, where there is a Fieldhead is approached along changing facilities in a small
tiled floor and adjacent is a boot a driveway and through an building with a tiled floor and
room and a cloakroom. impressive set of gates between there is a room at the rear that
The dining/garden room has stone pillars. houses the filtered pump and
double doors that open into the There is a parking area for boiler.
garden and close by are the several cars in front of a large There is also a south-facing
inter-connecting sitting room brick clockhouse that provides a covered seating area.
and drawing room – each one useful garage and workshop and
has a fireplace. has planning permsission for it
BUYER’S INFO
There is a superb combined to be converted into a twin- PRICE: £749,950
kitchen and breakfast room with storey house. AGENT: KNIGHT FRANK
cream wall and floor mounted Beyond is a timber framed CALL: 01905 723438

Semi has a popular address

A MODERN style three-bedroom
semi-detached house, 5 Russell
Close, is part of a popular
development in the village of
Powick, ideally placed for
commuting to both Malvern and
Worcester.
The accommodation comprises
an entrance hall, a downstairs
cloakroom, a combined sitting
room and dining room, a kitchen
and breakfast room and a utility
room.
On the first floor there are
three bedrooms and a family
bathroom.
Outside is a private driveway, a
single garage and an enclosed
rear garden.
BUYER’S INFO
PRICE: £206,950
AGENT: ALLAN MORRIS
CALL: 01905 612266 HANDY: 5 Russell Close, Powick, is between Malvern and Worcester.

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AuctionsNews
UNDER THE HAMMER

Cover price upheld for

damaged Oriental jars
An impressive pair of 18th century imari jars entranced two bidders at Brightwells

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WO very determined bidders
chased a pair of large 18th
century imari jars with covers
to £5,700 at Brightwells
recent antiques and fine art
saleheld at Easters Court, Leominster.
Impressive pieces of this type were
difficult to fire successfully so that
relatively few were made. Their
scarcity appeal was greatly increased PRETTY: The Georgian tortoiseshell box which sold for £420.
because the covers were still present

Classifieds
and intact.
On the down side they were both
cracked in many places and the original
decorative handles were missing. The
eventual buyer obviously anticipated a
good return on the investment even
after expensive restoration.
Other Oriental ceramics included a
Chinese baluster vase with unusual
moulded figures at £380 and a large blue Property Resale Rooms To Rent
and white vase at £230. A blue and
white Japanese plate made £120. BLACKPOLE/ WARNDON
Worcester ceramics were led by a Refurbished rooms from
£45 per week inc bills.
Barr Flight & Barr plate with a shell Good facilities
01905 457658/ 07866 521941
and seaweed painted centre panel at ORIENTAL RARITIES: The two damaged imari jars that caused a bidding war. CITY CENTRE ROOM
£460 and another example made the Superior house share. 5 mins
same price. An elegant urn shaped pot ivory cased timer, £480; a carved jade mug by P&A Bateman, London, 1791 – a walk Foregate St. Non smoking
prof, mid 20s. £300 pcm all inc.
pourri with a painted decoration sold disc decorated with lions, £260 and a collectors piece – sold for £230. A six- 07745 219051
for £190; a comport painted with South jade plaque, £290. A pair of cut glass piece condiment set with matching Double Room
scent bottles in a domed walnut box spoons, Birmingham, 1946 made £220; St John’s
African flowers made £160 and another, House Share-£325/MONTH-
slightly smaller one, reached £100. A with gilt metal mounts sold for £160, an 1895 coffee pot, £105 and a George VI ALL INC. 01905 451279
07903 437537
Flight Barr & Barr shell painted plate while an ivory stick handle in the form two handled bowl sold at £160.
EN SUITE SELF CONTAINED
within gilded dendritic branches made of an American Civil War soldier An oil on canvas study of a bay FURNISHED BEDSIT
£380. changed hands for £500. racehorse, Molly Bawn, dated 1882 and St Johns. £75 per week.
Working. Deposit
The earliest piece of jewellery was a A silver and tortoiseshell heart painted by H Whittaker Reville sold for 01905 820896
white metal oval locket, probably silver, shaped trinket box, London, 1908, was £1,000. Amongst the remaining varied LARGE DOUBLE ROOM
in luxury house, Fernhill Heath.
with the inscription “Quis tempery a bought for £230 and a snuff box made selection of paintings the best prices All bills incl broadband and TV
Lacluimis Fanit 1648” that sold for £950. by George Unite, Birmingham, 1875, were for a wooded landscape painted in license. £365 pcm.
01905 454737 / 07900 938040
Among much later pieces a diamond sold for £210. A pin cushion in the form oils on a panel and attributed to
QUALITY ROOMS ST JOHNS
band ring, channel set, made £600; a of a bull dog, made by Adey & Lovekin Edward Williams Senior (£340); a still Double rooms, refurbished
£79pw all inclusive. No DSS
diamond line 18ct bracelet its brilliant in Birmingham, 1905, reached £180; a life of fruit and a goblet attributed to 01905 619364
cut stones with flexible square linking pair of table pheasants bearing import Joseph Ankcorn and dated 1864 (£380); rentinworcester.co.uk
sold for £700; an emerald and diamond marks, £420; an impressive and an oil on canvas, The Wye Valley from ROOM IN ST JOHNS
Double room in luxury house,
necklace with a claw set carved complete dressing case in burr walnut Lenton, painted by Anthony Kerr, 1974, Bromyard Road.Internet and
emerald, £600 with an opal and a and with an unusually wide variety of (£320) and a watercolour, At Ludlow TV licence incl. £350 pcm
01905 454737/07900 938040
sapphire pendant, £300. fittings, £1,020 and an Arts and Crafts Castle, drawn by Isaac Shew in 1840, ST JOHNS / CITY CENTRE
An Arts and Crafts silver opal matrix three-handled goblet made in London in (£340). Stun dbl & dbl en suite rooms
£230-£425 inc. NO DSS.
and seed pearl pendant suspended from 1904, £230. The auction included a special ethnic Accommodation Houses and roomsinworcester.co.uk
a gold chain achieved £250. Table silver continues to sell well section with a group of Australian to Let Flats to Let
Telephone 07776 201010

A Georgian tortoiseshell circular because of its weight. A 36 oz. George V aboriginal shields and sticks making ROOM TO RENT
tea service made £360 and an Art £460. A leaded hardwood club with LEIGH SINTON
box, its lid inset with a complex FULLY FURNISHED 2 BED TWO BED
TERRACED HOUSE Furnished double bedroom
pastoral scene, aroused a lot of interest Nouveau service, made in Birmingham carved letters and motifs sold for £550 BARN CONVERSION City Centre, Available
December 1st, £560 pcm. with lots of storage, in non
among a good selection of objets d’art in 1910 went for £290. A pair of and a Shi ceremonial headpiece from For short lets, holidays or
07751 695493 smoking house £325 pcm
and made £420. A carved ivory letter continental silver Georgian style East Congo, decorated with shells and weekends. Near Ombersley. TWO BED FLAT including bills
opener made £360; an 18th century candlesticks made £520, while a pint fur, reached £80. From £300 p.w
City Centre. Furnished, spa-
07738 464479
cious, parking. NO DSS £550
pcm

Train nameplate steams out of sale

Details call: 07770 883091 ST JOHNS
Tel. 01905 769306
ST JOHNS Single and double rooms in
Houses and Stunning one & two bed apart- shared house. all mod cons,
Flats to Let ments. Granite worktops,
secure parking, must be seen! secure parking. From £250
2 BED COTTAGE 1 Bed £450 & 2 Bed £650 pcm inclusive. NO DSS
IT was full steam ahead for Halls when there were 21 Manors congregated in Quiet location. Nr Warndon exclusive
Villages, semi rural. Parking. Tel. 07870 367316
a rare locomotive engine nameplate Mid and South Wales. DG. CH. No DSS. £525 pcm NO DSS
07973 405197 Tel. 07870 367316
sold for £16,000. Others of the class operated in the
3 BEDROOMED HOUSE ST JOHNS
The Torquay Manor nameplate was Birmingham, Gloucester and Hereford City centre. Newly refurbished. Double fronted Victorian
bought by a telephone bidder from the areas while a handful was stationed at No DSS. Available immediately
£650 pcm terraced house, 2 bedrooms,
south of England. It had come from a Reading. 07929 859667 central heating, unfurnished,
collector in the Machynlleth area of NOSTALGIA: The £16,000 nameplate. Andrew Beeston, senior auctioneer BARBOURNE gardens, £575 pcm exclusive.
References and £1,000 deposit
mid-Wales, where the locomotives service in August 1964. The Manors and valuer at Halls, said: “The Studio Apartments and rooms.
Parking, From £300 pcm. required.
operated until the mid-1960s. were the smallest class of Great majority of these Manor class Tel. 07870 367316 07979 992442
Built in 1938, the 7800 Torquay Western locomotives with the 4-6-0 nameplates and tender plates are sold RAINBOW HILL
Manor was the first of the Manor Class wheel arrangement, both in size and in specialist railway auctions but it Studio flat with Gas/CH plus
locomotives and was originally due to the number built. was fitting that these were sold at our
parking. £425 pcm inc water. Property Wanted
Employed only.
be called Ashley Manor. Its first depot Many of them worked over the main Welsh Bridge auction house in Tel. 07808 169998
SPACIOUS TWO BED FLAT PROPERTY WANTED
allocation was Wolverhampton lines in Mid Wales, including Shrewsbury, as they had a long Warndon. GCH. COMPANY REQUIRES
followed by Tyseley, Oswestry and Cambrian Railway, on such trains as association with Mid Wales and the £525 pcm.excl PROPERTIES FOR WAITING
01905 729700 TENANTS.
Shrewsbury. It was withdrawn from the Cambrian Coast Express. By 1959, Marches.” 07966 370340 Tel: 01684 292154

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LettingsNews
HOMES OF THE WEEK

INFIRMARY WALK, WORCESTER LINLEY GREEN, NEAR WORCESTER

Two-bedroom terrace with hall, lounge/dining room, Three-bedroom chapel conversion with views. Open
kitchen, courtyard garden and parking. Unfurnished. plan lounge/kitchen, dining area, study/snug,
Gas central heating and double glazing. master bedroom with en-suite and luxury bathroom.
£575 pcm £895 pcm
HILLS ESTATE AGENTS 01905 723545 TOWN & COUNTRY 01905 610710

WORCESTER BARBOURNE, WORCESTER

Two bedroom executive apartment with dining Unfurnished modern three-bedroom terraced house
kitchen, family bathroom, lounge, two bedrooms, with cloakroom, breakfast kitchen, sitting room,
shower room. Secure entry and allocated parking. bathroom with shower, garage and parking.
£775 pcm £675 pcm
TOWN & COUNTRY 01905 610710 HILLS ESTATE AGENTS 01905 723545

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HOMES OF THE WEEK

WARNDON VILLAGES, WORCESTER UPTON SNODSBURY, NEAR PERSHORE

Modern detached house. Hall, cloakroom, breakfast Beautiful self-contained two-bedroom annexe
kitchen, lounge, master bedroom, en-suite, two located within the extensive grounds of a large
further bedrooms, bathroom, driveway and garage. period property in the village.
£725 pcm £695 pcm
SHELTON & LINES 01905 353933 MARTIN & CO 01905 619890

BATH ROAD, WORCESTER CHARTER PLACE, WORCESTER

Unfurnished executive-style two-bedroom apartment Unfurnished town house. Hall, living room, dining
in converted house. Sitting room, luxury kitchen, room, study, kitchen, master bedroom, en-suite,
utility, bathroom, shower, en-suite and parking. two more bedrooms, bathroom and courtyard.
£750 pcm £750 pcmx
HILLS ESTATE AGENTS 01905 723545 ANDREW GRANT 01905 23882

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