Alan Drive, Hale, Cheshire

GUIDE PRICE £3,000,000 | NO ONWARD CHAIN

An award-winning Edwardian home, built in the Arts and Crafts style and extending to 7,318 sq ft, set privately behind gates on one of Hale’s most desirable no-through roads.

Restored and reimagined in recent years by the multi-award-winning Cheshire studio Design by UBER, the transformation has been recognised at both the International Design & Architecture Awards and the SBID Awards, blending the home’s original period character with a calm, contemporary feel.

Arranged over four floors, it offers six bedrooms, five bathrooms, generous family and entertaining space, a show-stopping leisure level, a detached double garage and landscaped south-facing gardens, all about a mile from Hale village.

The main living space

The house works equally well for everyday family life and for entertaining. A bright reception hall, with steel-framed glazing and restored stained glass, opens through to a glazed dining orangery overlooking the garden. The kitchen is fitted with Wolf appliances and flows into generous dining and breakfast space, with doors onto the terraces. A separate drawing room and formal dining room give further reception space, and two broad south-facing terraces extend the living outdoors.

Bedrooms

The first floor centres on a generous main suite, with a seating area, a large dressing room and a hotel-style bathroom finished with an Antonio Lupi basin, a freestanding curved bath and a separate shower and steam room. Five further bedrooms sit across the first and second floors, along with the remaining bathrooms, giving flexible space for family, guests, a study or live-in help.

The leisure level

The lower ground floor is the show-stopper. What was once storage and a tired utility area is now a full entertaining floor, and the transformation here is the heart of the award-winning design.

On one side, a media room built around a bespoke unit with a polished-plaster surround and a ribbon fireplace framed in finely ribbed ebony, with deep corner sofas and soft mood lighting. On the other, an art-deco-inspired bar, first glimpsed through a teaser window as you come down the stairs, with glazed wine cabinets framing the doorway and an open floor that takes a pool table, a poker table or dancing.
Alongside sit a state-of-the-art air-conditioned gym looking out over the garden, a separate sauna and steam room, and a powder room.

Technology and security

Throughout the house, top-of-the-range Lutron lighting and Sonos sound, with full CCTV and smart security, all controllable from a phone. Solar panels help keep running costs down.

Gardens and parking

A gated entrance opens to a private drive with parking for several cars and a detached double garage. The south-facing gardens are designed for entertaining, with two terraces, landscaped planting and an eight-person hydrotherapy spa. The garage offers potential for an annexe, subject to the usual consents.

Location

Alan Drive is a quiet, well-regarded no-through road about a mile from Hale village, with its independent shops, restaurants and cafes, leading schools nearby, and easy access to Manchester, the airport and the motorway and rail network.

A rare chance to buy a substantial, turnkey period home with real character, modern family space and exceptional private leisure, in one of Hale’s best addresses.

Available with no onward chain.

Freehold. Council Tax Band H.