16 Lion Gate Gardens

A wonderful family home situated on the prestigious Lion Gate Gardens in Kew, just moments away from the Lion Gate entrance into Kew Gardens.

The house provides exceptional living space and high ceilings across three floors. The hallway is filled with natural light and offers a clear line of sight to the rear garden. Leading off the hallway is a reception room currently used both as a sitting area and a cinema room with an in-ceiling cinema screen and ceiling speakers, a practical storage/boot room, separate utility room, downstairs WC, and access to a basement cellar equipped with a Fondis Wine Cellar. The main living room also benefits from underfloor water heating, with an extremely well equipped Hacker Kitchen, Westin Extractor, Gaggenau oven as well as a 2nd Zanussi oven in the larder and Miele dishwasher.

The first-floor hosts a stunning principal bedroom suite complete with a Helo Steamroom and two double bedrooms with own ensuite bathrooms.
A further three bedrooms (one ensuite) along with one family bathroom are located on the second floor as well as an extra 200 sqft of storage space in the loft.

All bathrooms benefit from electric underfloor heating.
The first and second floors also offer very practical laundry chutes that run down to the utility room.

The house further benefits from four zone heating and water meaning each floor can be controlled separately and CAT 6 cabling to all the reception areas and bedrooms.

The front garden offers ample resin-bound off-street parking for multiple cars complete with a Zappi electric charge point. This elegant Victorian family home has been impeccably maintained during the current owner’s tenure and comes to the market with no onward chain.

Outside
There is a wonderful rear garden spanning approximately 63ft’ predominantly laid to lawn with a separate patio seating area along with an Astroturf play area with climbing wall, football goals and tennis wall.

Situation
Lion Gate Gardens is a favoured and attractive road that features many fine period properties; it runs parallel with Kew Road and is located around 0.8 miles from central Richmond/station. It is also very convenient for access to several of the areas most coveted state primary schools, some of which are rated as Outstanding by Ofsted as well as numerous excellent private schools.

The world-famous Royal botanical Gardens (Kew Gardens) lie just one road away and can be accessed on foot in just a few minutes.

Richmond town centre is home to many well-known retailers and smaller boutique shops that occupy the high street and surrounding roads and lanes, together with mainstream and independent restaurants, cafes and pubs. Richmond station, with fast connections to London Waterloo via modern South Western Railway trains, plus District Line Underground and Overground services, is in the middle of the town centre, as is Richmond Green and the River Thames. Kew Village and Kew Gardens Station is also easily accessible.

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Additional Information
Of further note and if desired by the purchaser, as part of the meticulous renovation works on the house, the owners also had planning permission approved for further alterations, including excavation to provide enlarged basement in excess of 70sq metres and installation of rooflights to front and rear roof slope to create two mezzanine areas in the current loft space if desired. Planning code - (10/0524/HOT), drawings and plans available on request.