Elm Lodge, 8 Ardmore Terrace, Holywood, BT18 9BH

• Exceptional Detached Family Home

• Occupying a Mature and Private Site

• Flexible Accommodation Ideal for Modern Family Living or Downsizers

• Impressive Reception Hall with Vaulted Ceilings and Exposed Beams

• Elegant Drawing Room with Triple Aspect Outlook and Cast Iron Fireplace

• Separate Dining Room with Dramatic Vaulted Ceiling

• Bespoke Hand-painted Kitchen with Excellent Range of Units

• Open Plan Kitchen, Dining and Living Space with Wood Burning Stove

• Four Well-proportioned Bedrooms

• Principal Bedroom with Walk-in Wardrobe and En Suite Bathroom

• Lower Ground Floor Lounge/Garden Room Ideal for Home Office or Self-contained Accommodation

• Family Bathroom with Corner Bath and Separate Shower

• Utility / Laundry Room with Excellent Storage

• Double Glazing Throughout

• Oil Fired Central Heating

• Beautifully Maintained Mature Gardens with Excellent Privacy

• Rear Sun Terrace and Timber Decking Ideal for Outdoor Entertaining

• Ample Driveway Parking for Multiple Vehicles, Boat or Caravan

• Extensive Underbuild Storage

• uPVC Soffits, Fascias and Guttering(tbc)

• Minutes from Holywood Town Centre, Schools and Transport Links

• Early Viewing Highly Recommended

Occupying a mature and private site in one of Holywood’s most sought-after residential locations, Elm Lodge offers exceptional and flexible accommodation, including the potential for self-contained living. Ideally suited to modern family life and downsizers alike, the property combines charming architectural features with stunning outlooks, while remaining only minutes from Holywood’s town centre, excellent schools, and transport links.

The property immediately impresses with its welcoming entrance and mature surroundings. A bright reception porch leads to a magnificent reception hall with vaulted ceilings and exposed beams, creating a wonderful sense of space and character. The elegant drawing room enjoys a triple aspect outlook across the gardens and distant hills, centred around a cast iron fireplace. A separate dining room with vaulted ceilings provides an ideal setting for entertaining.

At the heart of the home is a well-appointed kitchen with open-plan dining and living space. The bespoke fitted kitchen flows seamlessly into a bright living area with a wood-burning stove and direct access to the rear sun terrace and gardens.

The accommodation is highly adaptable, currently providing four well-proportioned bedrooms, including a spacious principal suite with walk-in wardrobe and en suite bathroom. A family bathroom and additional reception areas enhance practicality, while the lower ground floor offers a large lounge/garden room, utility room, and extensive storage.

Externally, beautifully maintained gardens feature mature planting for privacy and year-round colour. A tiled sun terrace provides an ideal space for outdoor dining and relaxation. Additional benefits include generous driveway parking, double glazing, and uPVC soffits and fascias.

Offering an exceptional blend of flexibility, character, and convenience just off Victoria Road, Elm Lodge represents a rare opportunity to acquire a truly outstanding home.

GROUND FLOOR

Entrance

Paviour front patio and steps to uPVC double glazed and leaded front door with matching side panels.

Reception Porch/Sun Porch

With ceramic tiled floor, glazed inner door and side panels to spacious reception hall.

Spacious Reception Hall

With double height vaulted tongue and groove ceiling, exposed beams, library area and reception hall with exposed and treated natural wooden flooring, library overlooking mature rear garden, built-in book and display shelving.

Drawing Room 4.38 x 3.91 (14'4" x 12'9")

Oak laminate wooden flooring, two picture windows and tri-aspect outlook to front paviour patio area, distant views to Antrim Hills and picture window overlooking side and rear gardens, cast iron raised fireplace with raised tiled hearth and open fire, access hatch to roof void, open through square arch to dining room.

Reception Hall

With walk-in cloaks and ground floor WC.

Ground Floor WC

With white suite comprising low flush WC, pedestal wash hand basin, chrome mixer taps, tiled splashback, part tiled walls, ceramic tiled floor.

Kitchen/Living/Dining 5.8 x 12.06 (19'0" x 39'6")

Extended with open plan dining and living space with vaulted ceiling, bespoke fitted kitchen with high and low level hand painted style units, stainless steel fittings, granite effect work surface, ceramic sink and a half sink unit, chrome mixer taps, plumbed for dishwasher, space for cooker, fixed canopy extractor hood, part tiled walls, space for fridge freezer, outlook to rear garden and uPVC double glazed and leaded access door to raised rear patio, tongue and groove ceiling, open through square arch to dining and living space with dramatic vaulted ceiling, outlook to four sides with mature outlook across front, side and rear gardens with access to rear sun terrace, hand painted carved fireplace surround with cast iron wood burning stove and slate hearth.

Inner Hallway

Inner hallway and sitting area with tongue and groove vaulted ceiling, exposed beams, mature outlook to front and range of built-in storage with glass and mirrored fronted sliding doors, built-in storage cupboard with built-in shelving, former linen press.

Bathroom

Light coloured suite comprising pedestal wash hand basin, corner bath, built-in fully tiled shower cubicle with chrome thermostatically controlled shower unit, overhead drencher, ceramic tiled floor, fully tiled walls, access hatch to roof void, linen press with lagged copper cylinder and built-in shelving.

Bedroom One 4.09 x 3.96 (13'5" x 12'11")

Mature outlook to front, walk-in wardrobe.

En Suite Bathroom 2.74 x 2.57 (8'11" x 8'5")

With coloured suite comprising low flush WC, panelled bath, bidet, twin vanity unit, drawer units below, chrome mixer taps, illuminated mirrored cabinet above, mature outlook to rear gardens.

Bedroom Two 4.38 x 2.85 (14'4" x 9'4")

Mature outlook to rear

Bedroom Three 3.34 x 2.74 (10'11" x 8'11")

Outlook to front.

LOWER GROUND FLOOR

Spacious Hallway

Under build storage from ground floor hallway.

Bedroom Four 3.34 x 2.74 (10'11" x 8'11")

Outlook to front, laminate wooden floor.

Lounge/Home Office/Playroom/Garden Room 8.08 x 3.96 (26'6" x 12'11")

Tiled floor, carved pine fireplace surround, granite inset and hearth, piped for gas fire, tongue and groove ceiling, mature outlook to rear garden and access to rear patio and garden, access also to front with conservatory style square bay to front, ideal as home office or self-contained live-in relative accommodation.

Laundry Room/Boot Room/ Utility Room 4.27 x 2.85 (14'0" x 9'4")

Plumbed for washing machine.

Rear Porch

With excellent storage, uPVC double glazed access door to rear patio and garden, access to under build storage, great access for plumbers and electricians.

OUTSIDE

Driveway and Gardens

Pillared entrance and driveway to ample parking to front of parking for numerous vehicles, boat, caravan or motor home, excellent degree of privacy to front, side and rear of property with brick paviour front patio with southerly facing aspect, brick built-boiler house to side, oil fired boiler, oil storage tank to side, rear gardens laid in lawns with mature planting, mature trees and mature shrubs, timber decking, bounded by mature hedging and fencing, tiled sun terrace to rear, excellent degree of privacy and ideal space for outdoor entertaining or enjoying long summer evenings, outdoor lighting, water tap, outdoor power sockets, garden shed to rear, well stocked with variety of flora and fauna, uPVC soffits, fascia boards and guttering.

As part of our obligations under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017, all Estate Agents are required to verify the identity of purchasers involved in a property transaction.

To comply with these obligations, all purchasers will be required to complete Customer Due Diligence (AML) identity checks. These checks are carried out on our behalf by our trusted third-party provider, Thirdfort.

A charge will apply of £20 + VAT per purchaser.

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