Families looking for homes in Winchester need to be like many of the visitors to the city’s Christmas market – and get their skates on.

 

While the market visitors will be having fun, finding a home within the catchment area of particular schools before the January 15 reception places registrations deadline for 2015 can be a serious business. Fortunately there is a choice of homes, just as there’s a choice of schools.

 

With the catchments of St Bede’s C of E Primary or the Westgate School, as well as also being ideal for Pilgrims or Winchester College, are properties in Great Minster and Gar Streets and The Close.

 

The three bedroom, three reception room and two bathroom house in Great Minster Street (£1,950 per month, EPC Band E) backs onto The Close and offers attractive town house accommodation in the heart of the city. The townhouse in The Close (£2,750) is listed and elegantly proportioned with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and two reception rooms as well as a kitchen, utility, and study. It also has an enclosed rear garden and reserved parking, a valuable city centre asset.

 

In Gar Street (£2,800 EPC Band D) is a contrasting townhouse with an integral double garage on the ground floor, a spacious kitchen / dining room with AGA, three bedrooms, three bathrooms, and three reception rooms served by a lift and offering spectacular views of the Cathedral.

 

At Stoney Lane, with the catchment of Weeke Primary School, is a four bedroom bungalow with two bathrooms and two reception rooms (£1,995 EPC Band C) that’s also perfect for access to the city centre, railway station, and major road routes as well as being within walking distance of local amenities that include both Waitrose and Aldi.

 

Enthusiasts for village schools will appreciate a family house at Crawley, within the catchment of Sparsholt C of E Primary School, that offers four bedrooms, two bathrooms, and three reception rooms (£2,750 EPC Band D). As befits a country house, there’s an AGA in the kitchen but the property also offers superb gardens.

 

Back in the city, a two bedroom coach house close to the River Itchen has real appeal (£995 EPC Band D). There’s a bathroom and large reception room with two Juliet balconies.

 

A modern first floor flat with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and two reception rooms (£1,495 EPC Band E) is now available overlooking the central square at Peninsula Barracks while at St Cross there is a fully furnished one double bedroom flat with a reception room and feature fireplace (£800 EPC Band F).

 

Rents exclude administration fees, for this information visit CJVIEW.ME/winlet. For more details of the properties, call Carter Jonas on 01962 876838 or email winchester-residentiallettings@carterjonas.co.uk