Sandal Rise, Solihull, B91

A home perfectly placed for family life
Set in a quiet cul-de-sac, this immaculately presented detached home combines generous proportions with a rare level of craftsmanship, quality and specification. It’s within easy walking distance of Brueton Park, Solihull School and St Alphege Junior School, and only minutes from Solihull’s thriving town centre, the M42 and Birmingham Airport.

Built as a family home
This house was bespoke-built by its current owner as the perfect family home, using the highest quality workmanship and building materials throughout. Every decision, from the insulation in the walls, the quality of building materials, to the taps on the basins and even the building teams, was made with comfort, quality, long-term durability and minimal maintenance costs in mind. The result is a home built to be lived in and enjoyed for decades.

Designed for low maintenance
This home was built with long-term running costs firmly in mind. With labour costs for most trades currently reaching up to £500 per person per day and rising, as well as problems associated with finding reliable tradesmen when needed, low maintenance makes a real difference over the years.

• Inside: there is no gloss paintwork anywhere. The treated solid Sapele hardwood staircase, skirting boards, doors and windowsills avoid the frequent repainting that painted woodwork requires.
• Outside: there is no render or painted woodwork, so there’s no costly regular exterior repainting required.
Designed for the lowest possible energy costs
The house has been insulated to a standard well beyond that of a typical home, so it stays warm in winter and cool in summer and costs less to heat in colder months of the year:
• External walls: in addition to full cavity wall insulation, all external walls have been lined with special insulated plasterboard incorporating a 40mm layer of insulation, greatly reducing heat loss through the walls.
• Internal walls: the internal walls are also insulated, helping each room hold its warmth and reducing the transfer of sound between rooms.
• Between floors: insulation between floors keeps the heat on each level. Combined with independently controlled heating on each of the three floors, you only need to heat the floors you are using.
• Room proportions: every room has been thoughtfully proportioned to feel spacious and comfortable, while remaining efficient to heat. There are no box-rooms in this house.
• Warm floors: large areas of hard tiled flooring have been deliberately avoided in favour of carpeted floors, which are naturally warm and help keep energy costs down, especially in the British climate.

Arrival
A block-paved driveway offers parking for several vehicles and gives an immediate sense of the care and quality found throughout the house.

Reception rooms
A welcoming entrance hall leads to all the ground-floor rooms. The formal living room is centred on a striking inglenook fireplace, with a bespoke, British-made Derbyshire stone surround and a log-effect gas fire. The chimney was designed and built to suit a range of fuels, including wood and coal, giving future owners flexibility. French doors open onto the rear patio, ideal for summer days.

French doors also connect the living room to a second reception room at the front of the house, which can also be reached from the hallway. This flexible space works equally well as a formal dining room or family lounge, and together the two rooms make a superb setting for entertaining.

Kitchen, dining and sunroom
At the heart of the home, the kitchen and dining area overlooks the very beautiful rear garden. The kitchen is designed for both everyday living and serious cooking. It has a central island, generous storage and worktop space, and a range of premium integrated appliances:
• NEFF: American style fridge-freezer, dishwasher, microwave oven, warming drawer, steam oven and barbecue grill plate
• Miele: gas hob and a top-of-the-range built-in, plumbed-in coffee machine, with programmes for multiple users, a choice of three coffee beans and adjustable coffee strengths
• Quooker: 4-in-1 boiling-water tap
The dining area is filled with natural light and flows into the sunroom. Its base walls were built on deep foundations, allowing for future alterations if desired.

A separate utility room has space for a washing machine and tumble dryer, a sink and a side door, which is ideal for dog walks and garden access. A guest cloakroom completes the ground floor. The central vacuum system serves the whole house, including a convenient vacuum pan in the kitchen for sweeping debris straight away.

First floor
A handsome solid Sapele wood staircase, matched by bespoke Sapele doors and windowsills, rises to a spacious galleried landing.

The principal suite runs the full length of the house, from front to rear. It has views over the garden from its own balcony, a walk-in wardrobe and an en-suite bathroom with his-and-hers basins. It’s a calm, private retreat in which to start and end the day.

Bedrooms two and three both have built-in wardrobes and en-suite shower rooms. Bedrooms three and four share access to a second balcony overlooking the rear garden. Bedroom four, currently used as a sewing room, is served by the family bathroom across the landing.

Second floor
The top floor offers flexible space that’s ideal for teenagers, guests or working from home. It has two further double bedrooms, each with its own en-suite and air conditioning. On hot summer days, the top-floor air conditioning helps cool the entire house, keeping every floor comfortable. The landing makes a natural home office, study, music area or reading nook. There’s also generous storage, with eaves storage in four places and larger storage spaces in both second-floor bathrooms.

Quality throughout
All bathrooms and shower rooms are fitted with Italian Catalano sanitaryware and Samuel Heath of Birmingham taps. Every basin has a thermostatically controlled mixer tap, so children can use all the basins safely without risk of scalding. All toilets are wall-hung for a cleaner, more hygienic finish that’s easier to keep clean. Every shower is a fully enclosed shower cubicle, which holds in the warmth and avoids the cold draughts often felt in open walk-in showers during the many colder months of the UK.

The bathrooms have been designed with no wooden or laminated storage units of any kind, so there’s no risk of the swelling, warping, discoloring or delamination that water and steam eventually cause to wooden and MDF based fittings.

The whole house is wired with CAT6 cabling, giving fast, reliable wired internet connections with full-fibre broadband speeds of up to 2Gbps in every room. It’s ideal for home working, streaming and gaming.

Outside
Front garden
• manicured gardens on either side of the block-paved driveway, creating an attractive first impression

Rear garden
The architect-designed rear garden is one of the many highlights of the property. It has been expertly planned and professionally built to meet the needs of the whole family, and it enjoys a high degree of privacy from neighbouring properties, creating a tranquil retreat just minutes from the thriving Solihull town centre.

For keen gardeners
• Exotic plants and shrubs and mature trees, offering colour, interest and greenery throughout the seasons
• A formal knot garden, a classic feature that brings structure and elegance and is a pleasure to tend
• A fruit orchard, so you can enjoy growing and picking your own fruit
• Cobbled pathways winding through beautifully planted borders, inviting you to stroll and explore for relaxing and entertaining
• A Canadian cedar-wood gazebo, a sheltered spot to unwind, dine outdoors or entertain friends on summer evenings
• A small waterfall water feature, whose gentle sound creates a calm, peaceful atmosphere
For children
• A lawn, giving children a safe space to play, in full view of the house
Practical features
• Six weatherproof MK double sockets, connected by armoured underground cable, making it easy to add garden lighting or use power tools anywhere in the garden
The integral garage can be reached from the hallway, the side drive or the front driveway. Its remote-controlled door has 40mm insulation, adding to the home’s energy efficiency. The garage also has a caretaker sink with a mixer tap, ideal for washing muddy boots, cleaning garden tools or filling buckets, and a vacuum point connected to the central vacuum system, so you can vacuum the car without carrying a vacuum cleaner outside.

Energy efficiency
The house has been carefully maintained and designed to run efficiently, earning an EPC rating of B, which is unusually high for a detached home of this size. Heating on each of the three floors is controlled independently, helping to reduce energy costs. Details of how the property was built to achieve this rating are available on request.

Location
• Brueton Park: 0.5 miles, within walking distance
• Solihull School: about 0.4 miles
• St Alphege Junior School: about 0.6 miles
• M42 Junction 5: just over 1 mile
• Birmingham Airport and Birmingham International station: about 5 miles

General information
• Tenure: Freehold
• Services: all mains services connected; central vacuum system; CAT6 wiring throughout; independently controlled heating on each floor
• EPC rating: B
• Local authority: Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
• Council tax: Band F
• Postcode: B91 3ET

Directions
From Solihull town centre, take the Warwick Road towards Knowle and Dorridge, passing Solihull School’s senior campus on your left. Continue through the traffic lights towards Brueton Park, then take the next left into Sandal Rise. The property is towards the end of the cul-de-sac, on the right.


Agents' Note

We have not tested any of the electrical, central heating or sanitaryware appliances. Purchasers should make their own investigations as to the workings of the relevant items. Floor plans are for identification purposes only and not to scale. All room measurements and mileages quoted in these sales particulars are approximate. Subjective comments in these details imply the opinion of the selling agent at the time these details were prepared. Naturally, the opinions of purchasers may differ. These sales particulars are produced to offer a guide only and do not constitute any part of a contract or offer. We would advise that fixtures and fittings included within the sale are confirmed by the purchaser at the point of offer.

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