Superbly restored Grade II town centre four bedroom home: Stoke-on-Trent homes

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B rothers Anthony and Richard Wheat have breathed new life into this magnificent 200-plus year old building and made a quite fabulous family home.

They bought the building at The Terrace, Cheadle, several years ago after it had been used as a solicitor's office, but took it back to the original design and split it into two houses. The other side has already been renovated and sold and now it has been the turn of this one.

It is a hugely impressive building and testament to the amount of time, effort and money the brothers have put into it. The restoration has been of the total, back-to-brick variety, but the result is worth it. Anthony said: "We have done everything, absolutely everything to it. It has been rewired, replastered, we have put back the skirting and coving as it would have been all those years ago and left in some period features, but also added some modern touches and it is just right for a family in the market today.

"You can drive around this town and I don't think you will find another property quite like this one. It has so much character, you see."

Set up slightly from the road, the house makes a strong impression from the moment you open the oak panelled front door and walk inside.

To the right is a big lounge with an open fireplace flanked by a pair of period-correct alcoves, lovely sash windows, and it has a boarded floor. Whether a future owner wants to carpet it or not is a matter for them, but it does look fantastic.

There is a cellar accessed from the hallway, and then at the back of the house you come to one of the most surprising rooms, the breakfast kitchen.

In contrast to the traditional feel of the lounge, this has a much more modern look and the overwhelming sense is one of daylight because, thanks to an atrium roof and a half glazed back wall with patio doors out to the garden beyond, this room glows in the sunlight.

Cream-fronted base and wall units and a pale ceramic tiled floor only emphasise the light in this room.

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Superbly restored Grade II town centre four bedroom home: Stoke-on-Trent homes