Converted Chapel Close to Durham City With Development Potential
The Old Chapel at Sherburn Hill offers one the rarest of opportunities to acquire a stunning home and an investment property together in a single sale.
This historic property is a unique combination of a beautifully converted three-bedroom home and four part-finished residential flats, with outstanding rental potential, just five miles from the centre of the historic Durham City.
Retaining many original features, this imposing original chapel has been sympathetically converted over nearly 40 years into a beautifully appointed three-bedroom family home. The adjoining building is at the ‘first fix’ stage of conversion into four spacious two-bedroom flats ideally suited to tourist, student or long-term rental accommodation.
The Old Chapel is For Sale through the Durham Office of H&H Land & Estates by Private Treaty at a Guide Price of £730,000 for the whole.
The Old Chapel is one of the most unusual properties she has brought to the market. “Converted chapels are not uncommon, but The Old Chapel at Sherburn Hill has been transformed by the owners with exceptional care and attention to detail into a really wonderful home.
But this property also offers a completely different dimension of investment value by way of the four adjoining flats. They’re close to completion, and the lucky buyer will be able to tap into their rental potential with minimum outlay and delay.
It retains many original features which have been painstakingly restored, including arched stained glass windows and plaster coving, the Victorian stair spindles and leaded glass windows.
On the ground floor of the chapel, the hallway opens into a stunning, solid oak-floored entertainment space (that has a variety of potential uses), that leads into a dining-kitchen. The ground floor accommodation extends to a generous separate sitting room and a large, pine conservatory opening onto a stone-flagged and walled patio surrounded by a large, mature, lawned garden with trees, shrubs, borders and raised beds.
On the first floor The Old Chapel offers a stunning Master Bedroom with high, wood-panelled, ceiling and floor-to-ceiling windows. There are two further large double bedrooms served by an equally generous family bathroom.
Each of the four flats approaching completion adjoining the chapel will provide similar accommodation, with two bedrooms, bathroom and open plan kitchen and living areas. The ground floor flats have French windows opening to the rear, and the flats on the first floor have double doors opening to Juliette balconies. All services are connected but bathrooms and kitchens are not fitted, some plastering remains to complete and there are four Baxi Platinum combi-boilers ready for fitting included in the sale. The flats offer fantastic rental income potential.
For full particulars or to arrange a viewing by appointment only, please call Helen Forbes on: 0191 370 8530 or email: [email protected] .
