Our house in Lake Road Bristol

Our house dates from the 1930s and is semi-detached. Double front doors lead into a wooden floored hall, with a small study area leading from it, and two doors into the big L-shaped living space. Windows at each end face east and west so there is both morning and evening sun, and the dining space has a large skylight. The room is warm and welcoming, full of light, and with a variety of art, both paintings and sculpture. The comfortable sitting area has two sofas and a large armchair, a smart TV and woodburning stove, whilst the middle connecting space has a dresser and antique inlaid table; both spaces have wooden floors with loose rugs. A wide, low step leads into the 1990s extension with a tiled floor, and the dining and kitchen areas.
From the kitchen, an outside door leads into a small with woodyard, with small greenhouse and a washing line; a door from this space leads into the workshop (a kind of false garage!) Also from the kitchen, a short, tiled corridor leads to utility room, shower room toilet and wash basin, and then on into a large double bedroom. This room is peaceful, with a large window and glass doors, opening straight into the garden.
Upstairs there is a bathroom with bath and separate shower, next to a double bedroom which looks on to the garden. The double bed is made-up of two single beds which can be separated if wanted. There is a small second single bedroom which looks onto the road. The other room on the first floor is a study/art room, and not available for use during a home exchange.
There is full central heating, and in the summer months, the solar panels generally heat the water enough that no gas is needed.

The house has a small front garden, with space to park a car, and a charge point for an electric car. The 80 foot back garden has a stone terrace, small pond (with fish), a lawn and borders, and – at the end - a small wooden deck with table and chairs. An unusual feature of the garden is that it ends in a 40 foot drop to an old quarry lake, which since 1919 has been the members-only Henleaze Swimming Lake. The lake and large number of trees around the edges, make the garden a very peaceful and restorative place. (https://www.henleazeswimmingclub.org/). NB Although there is a metal fence with netting between the lines of wire, this steep drop means that the garden is not suitable for a family with young children.

About the location

The house is 20 minutes from both the M5 (junction 17) and the M4 junction (junction 19). Bath is a 12 minute train ride, or a 45 minute drive away. The nearest station to the house is Bristol Parkway. Bristol Temple Meads station, though further away, can be reached by a direct number 2 bus which stops at the end of Lake Road.
Lake Road, so called because of its close proximity to Henleaze Lake, is in the northwest of the city of Bristol. Although one or two small roads lead off the road, Lake Road is a no-through road so that there is limited car traffic along it, and it has cherry trees and grass verges, and no parking restrictions. From the house, it is a five minute walk to the small and beautiful Badocks Wood which lies behind the roads around the lake.
At the end of the road there is a small Morrisons, and the number 2 and number 77 buses go straight into the centre of Bristol (3.5 miles away), taking about 15–20 minutes. They travel through nearby Henleaze (a 15 minute walk from the house), where there is a selection of excellent shops including a Co-op, small Tesco, petrol station, coffee shops, greengrocer, delicatessen, independent bookshop, hairdressers and others. Lidl and Waitrose (with a neighbouring small cinema) are a 5 minute drive away.
Bristol is a great city and offers both cultural venues and places of beauty. The Bristol Beacon, the Hippodrome and St George’s concert hall all offer a range of great music, whilst the famous Bristol Old Vic Theatre, and the Tobacco and Wardrobe theatres run a range of shows. Art lovers can visit the Royal West of England Academy, the Arnolfini Gallery and numerous other smaller galleries The Downs open grassland, Ashton Court Park and Leigh Woods – the latter reached by crossing Brunel's iconic Clifton Suspension Bridge over the Avon Gorge - are just three lovely areas in the city to walk amongst green trees. There are numerous country places of interest in beauty within 5 miles and the coast, at Portishead or Clevedon is within a 40 minute drive. The city hosts the Nevill cricket ground, Bristol City and Bristol Rovers football teams. Other places of interest include an excellent Museum, the Concorde Museum and the former docks, with evidence of Bristol's long maritime history, and the SS Great Britain and the Matthew ships, which are permanently moored in the docks.

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