5 bedroom semi-detached house for sale

A VIEW THAT BECOMES PART OF YOUR LIFE Imagine waking as the first light begins to move across the hills, with Bath and the surrounding countryside unfolding beneath you. From Brown’s Folly in the distance, your eye travels across a vast sweep of woodland, rooftops and sky until it reaches Bath Abbey, rising unmistakably from the heart of the city. As the day changes, so does the view: morning mist caught between the hills, long summer evenings turning the skyline gold, and the lights of Bath beginning to twinkle as darkness falls. This is not simply a view you admire from time to time. It becomes part of the rhythm of living here. Welcome to The Firs. A HOME MADE FOR FAMILY LIFE Imagine having the room for family life to unfold around you. Your children can spill out into the garden, friends can gather around the table, grandparents can come to stay and everyone can find a corner to call their own. Your weekends might begin slowly over breakfast outside, turn into an afternoon in the garden and end with everyone gathered around the fire as the sun disappears behind the hills. And when you want the city, simply wander down through Hedgemead Park and into the heart of Bath. GEORGIAN CHARACTER, LIGHT AND SPACE From the moment you step inside, you feel that wonderful sense of generosity you only find in a substantial period house. As you move through the beautifully proportioned rooms, high ceilings, tall sash windows, original wooden floorboards and fireplaces bring character everywhere you look. Then there are the gorgeous original stained-glass windows, casting shifting pools of colour across the walls and staircase as the light changes throughout the day. And as you move from floor to floor, the south-facing windows keep bringing you back to that extraordinary panorama, your eye travelling for miles across Bath, woodland and rolling countryside, discovering a different perspective from each room and the simple joy of meeting that view again and again. THE HEART OF EVERYDAY LIFE Your everyday life naturally gathers around the open kitchen and dining space, connecting beautifully with the rest of the ground floor. At the front, pull up a chair at the table by the sash window, pour your morning coffee and watch Bath wake up below you, or let the children claim it for breakfast with one of the best views in the city stretching out before them. To the rear, there is room for a generous dining table where everyone can come together for family suppers and long evenings with friends. Across the hallway, you can move easily into the sitting room, a natural extension of this sociable space where conversation and family life can continue to flow between the rooms. Just beyond the dining area, a second reception room gives you the freedom to adapt the house as your family changes, whether you make it a playroom filled with toys, a relaxed second sitting room or a dedicated study. From here, the utility room keeps the practical side of family life beautifully organised, while direct access to the rear courtyard allows you to move naturally between indoors and out as the warmth and light shift around the house on summer days. WAKE UP TO THE HORIZON As your family grows, follow the staircase upwards and you begin to see just how easily The Firs can grow with you. Five beautiful bedrooms are joined by two wonderfully flexible rooms, giving you the freedom to create whatever your life calls for, from a peaceful study or dressing room to a playroom, creative space or private retreat for older children. When they are younger, there is room to play; as the years pass, teenagers can have the space and independence that become increasingly important. But it is the south-facing rooms that will steal your heart. Their generous proportions allow you to draw a chair or table up to the tall sash windows and simply stop for a while, with your gaze travelling far beyond the rooftops, across the wooded slopes and out towards the countryside. Imagine waking to that horizon every day. Read beside it in the afternoon, take your morning coffee upstairs, or watch the last light fade across Bath before drawing the curtains at night. A GARDEN ABOVE BATH Step outside and the whole landscape seems to fall away before you, Bath unfolding below and the wooded hills rolling away into the distance. This is a garden where you can spend the day, with lawns, mature planting and different places to sit, dine and follow the sun. Running alongside you, the gorgeous original Georgian red-brick wall brings warmth, texture and a wonderful sense of history, its mellow brick softened by years of planting. Spread out on the lawn, gather everyone around the table for lunch, then light the fire as evening draws in and watch the changing light travel across the valley. Once you have experienced living with a view like this, it becomes difficult to imagine wanting to come home to anything else. A SECLUDED COURTYARD AND SPACE FOR FAMILY LIFE Move around to the other side of the house and you discover a rear courtyard with a character all of its own. Layered with pots and planting, it becomes your own wonderfully secluded oasis on warm summer days, with direct gated access onto quiet Perfect View. It also makes family life remarkably easy, with generous sheds and outbuildings ready to absorb the bikes, scooters, sports kit, gardening equipment and all the paraphernalia that comes with a busy household. At street level on Camden Road, the former garage gives you particularly useful additional storage for bikes, motorbikes and everything else you want readily to hand. To the rear, Perfect View and the surrounding quiet residential streets also provide convenient on-street parking, making the rear entrance an especially practical way for you to come and go. BETWEEN BATH AND LARKHALL If you are raising a family, this is one of those rare Bath locations that seems to work beautifully at every stage. When children are small, St Stephen’s Primary is around a five-minute walk from the rear of the house, reached through woodland and quiet residential streets; an easy journey even for little legs. Some of Bath’s other most sought-after schools are close by too, while Larkhall gives you independent shops, cafs, a deli, butcher, theatre and the kind of community where everyday life quickly begins to feel local. And as your children grow, the location grows with them. Teenagers can begin to find their own independence, meeting friends, getting themselves to school, walking into Larkhall or heading into the centre of Bath without every journey depending on you and the car. For parents, there is something rather wonderful about watching that independence develop while knowing they are growing up somewhere so connected, established and peaceful. For you, that same location means being able to walk into town for dinner, meet friends for coffee, pick up supper locally and feel part of a neighbourhood where people know one another. And then you come home, close the gate and rise above it all. At The Firs, you can have all the privacy and seclusion you could wish for, while remaining completely connected to the life and community around you. You have Bath at your feet, Larkhall around the corner and a real community on your doorstep, while at home the views, gardens and sense of space make the city feel a world away. A REMARKABLE PLACE TO CALL HOME At The Firs, you have something increasingly rare in Bath: the space for your family to grow, the freedom to shape a substantial period house around the way you want to live, a beautiful garden, exceptionally useful storage, a genuine community and the city within walking distance. But perhaps what will stay with you most is how it feels to be here. The light. The sense of space. The quiet. And that extraordinary horizon appearing through the windows, changing with the weather, the seasons and the time of day. This is a house that gives you Bath as part of your everyday life, and a view you will never tire of coming home to. THE STORY OF THE FIRS And if you would like to know what it is really like to live at The Firs, watch our three films with owners Lizzie Heffer and Bob Crampton. They share the story of raising their family here and the many happy decades they have spent in the house, from living with those extraordinary views and the remarkable convenience of the location to being part of the close-knit Camden and Perfect View communities they have come to know so well