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Record Price For Penthouse At Aldershot Development

Posted 9 August 2022 by Keith Osborne

A newly converted penthouse has sold for a record price at Weston Homes' Gun Hill Park...

Weston Homes has sold the 2,088-sq-ft, three-bedroom Clock Tower Penthouse at its Gun Hill Park for £760,000 – which is the highest price ever achieved for an apartment in Aldershot and the most expensive new build apartment sale in Hampshire in 2022, as recorded on HM Land Registry.

The landmark penthouse sale at Gun Hill Park underlines the significant sales success and values achieved at the prestigious residential development which consists of the transformation of the magnificent Grade II listed Cambridge Military Hospital, originally built in 1875-79, into a new residential address providing 140 apartments and houses, including converted homes with new interiors and newly built properties, complemented with private gardens and landscaped grounds. It is now 50% sold, with £31.5million worth of sales

Prior to the sale of the Clock Tower Penthouse the highest recorded sale for an apartment sold in Aldershot was a luxurious two-bedroom apartment just over three miles from Gun Hill Park, in Ash, which sold in 2020 for £420,000. Across the rest of the new homes market in Hampshire, no other new build development has achieved the value of the Clock Tower Penthouse – the nearest equivalent is a second-hand three-bedroom penthouse apartment in Hythe Marina Village, with two marina moorings included, which sold for £1.125million at the start of 2022.

Gun Hill ParkBob Weston, chairman and managing director of Weston Homes, said: “With its grand Victorian-era buildings and converted homes with their tall windows, high ceilings and retained historic features Gun Hill Park is totally unique in the Aldershot housing market. The specification of the apartments and houses is of a London quality, with custom design kitchens and designer bathrooms. We have created our own market in Aldershot and this is why the development has achieved really good capital values – you can’t compare the homes to those in the local market, they are best compared to quality new homes in London.”

Suzanne Aplin, group sales & marketing director of Weston Homes, commented: “Weston Homes is delighted to have sold the spectacular Clock Tower Penthouse at Gun Hill Park at a record price for the area yet still at great value for money for the buyers. We believe that the penthouse is the most striking and unique apartment in Hampshire with its panoramic views and illustrious history and we are delighted to have found buyers to call it home.”

The Clock Tower Penthouse is located in the 109-ft-tall clock tower on the top of The Cambridge, the central building at Gun Hill Park. The design of the clock tower was inspired by the clock tower at Osborne House, Queen Victoria’s holiday home on the Isle of Wight. The hospital was opened on 18 July 1879 and the clock was ceremonially started by HRH Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, who was the cousin of Queen Victoria and in whose honour the hospital was named.

Gun Hill ParkThe Clock Tower Penthouse skilfully combines contemporary living spaces with heritage features, providing accommodation over six floors starting with a main lower level located across part of the top floor of The Cambridge apartment building.

The penthouse accommodation includes a striking entrance hall, spacious living room, family kitchen with dining area, the principal bedroom suite, with a walk-in dressing room and en suite bathroom, and a second bedroom. There is a private cinema/media room on the second floor; on the third floor is a spacious bathroom, the fourth floor offers a further bedroom and the fifth floor, located in a cupola with arched windows (which originally housed a bell), forms a viewing platform which offers breathtaking panoramic views from the porthole windows over Aldershot and the countryside beyond. The top sixth level comprises the clock turret itself, the face of the clock being eight feet in diameter.

Homes at Gun Hill Park are priced from £285,000 for a one-bedroom apartment, £315,000 for a two-bedroom apartment and from £500,000 for a three-bedroom house. Find out more from Weston Homes.

 

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