The apartments at Catherine Place are selling fast, with 90% now sold. To make an appointment to find out more about the stunning properties available, please call 0800 201 4811.
Situated on Scalford Road in the historic market town of Melton Mowbray, Catherine Place is a superb Retirement Living development for the over 60's, offering 25 one bedroom and 22 two bedroom beautiful retirement apartments available for sale. These private retirement properties share attractive communal facilities and an amazing location. With easy walking access to the town centre, this Retirement Living development offers a multitude of amenities, entertainment and attractions right on the doorstep.
Discover Retirement Living with McCarthy Stone
This Retirement Living development in Melton Mowbray offers safe, secure, luxurious and low maintenance retirement homes, exclusive to the over the 60s. You’ll benefit from a friendly manager on-site to keep everything running smoothly, as well as access to communal areas like the lovely lounge (with free Wi-Fi) and large gardens for socialising. There will be lifts to all floors as well as car parking onsite - including guest parking. There will also be a hotel-style guest suite as a convenient alternative when people come to stay. Pets are welcome too!
Low maintenance and sociable
Catherine Place Retirement Living development is being designed to encourage community feeling to flourish, while also allowing you to enjoy the complete privacy of your own spacious retirement apartment. You’ll enjoy stylish well-maintained communal spaces, including the well-appointed lounge with free Wi-Fi, and a lush, landscaped garden - ideal for meeting your friends, neighbours and family for a drink and a chat. We find the communal facilities soon become social hubs – a hive of informal gatherings and regular clubs, events and meet-ups to suit all sorts of interests. Our communities offer things like film nights, pie and mash lunches, knitting clubs, cocktail evenings, music, yoga, birthday parties and even the odd fiesta.
Safe and secure
All our new retirement apartments are designed with intelligent ergonomics and Modern Methods of Construction to ensure they are a joy to live in. As well as being well-insulated, warm and energy-efficient, they have the latest safety and security features built in. You’ll benefit from a 24-hour emergency call system, intruder alarms, fire detection and door camera entry, so you can see who it is before answering the door - as well as the reassurance of a manager onsite in office hours.
Development Highlights
- Ideally located in the historic market town of Melton Mowbray, Britain's "rural capital of food"
- A range of amenities close by including cafes, restaurants and shops
- Excellent transport links with easy access to surrounding towns and villages
- Elegant communal lounge to socialise in with friends and neighbours
- Dedicated House Manager to run the development day-to-day
- Expertly designed apartments with ease of living in mind
Key Features
- Camera entry system
- House Manager
- Guest parking
- Near the countryside
- Landscaped gardens
- Lounge Wi-Fi access
- Lifts to all floors
- Guest suite
- Pets allowed
Virtual Tours
See for yourself what Catherine Place has to offer with virtual tours of a one bedroom and two bedroom show apartments and the communal lounge and gardens. To get the best experience click the full screen icon with the four arrows below in the bottom left menu bar.
Interactive Site Plan
Our interactive site plan allows you to easily find available retirement properties. Click the tabs to view each floor. You'll see that one-bedroom homes are in yellow and two-bedroom homes are in purple. When you click on a property, you'll find out whether it is available for sale, rent or shared ownership, as well as pricing. Click on 'view property' to find out more. Retirement homes shown in red are already reserved, sold or rented out, but may be available on our Resales website.
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Occupancy options
The properties at this development are a mix of freehold and leasehold properties. Leasehold properties have a term of 999 years from and including 01/01/2021
- Electricity, heating and lighting (communal areas)
- Water and sewage (communal areas and apartments)
- Maintenance of building and gardens
- Building insurance
- Development staff
- Future maintenance fund
- Professional fees
- Emergency call system
- Income to guest suites and sundry income
What's not included?
- Electricity, heating and lighting (apartments)
- Home and contents insurance
- Council Tax
- Phone / broadband
- TV licence / TV service
* Reviewed annually
- You can enjoy the McCarthy Stone lifestyle without paying the full purchase price.
- Buying a percentage share of the property allows you to manage your finances to cater for possible future needs.
- If you buy 75% of the value of the property, there is no rent to pay on the outstanding share.
- If you buy 50% of the value of the property, you will pay rent on the outstanding share.
- You could claim up to £500 a year to help with essential repairs in the first 10 years.
With this scheme, you can purchase up to 75% of the value of your property – and if you own 75%, you won’t pay any rent on the outstanding 25% share. It provides a more affordable way to buy one of our retirement properties.
What is Shared Ownership and who are Homes England?
Is Shared Ownership available at all your locations?
Who will own the share of the property I don’t buy?
Do I need financial advice?
Will a financial review be needed?
What will it cost upfront?
You should plan for some one-off costs associated with your purchase, including, but not limited to the following:
• Reservation deposit (which is deducted from your final purchase)
• Solicitors Fees and disbursements
• Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) in England.
Your solicitor will be able to tell you if the tax applies and how much it will be
• Estate Agent fees if selling a current property
Can I purchase a parking space?
What does the £500 essential repairs include?
Shared Ownership Explained
Living at Melton Mowbray
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Living in Melton Mowbray
As well as being the home of both the pork pie and stilton cheese, various food festivals are held in Melton Mowbray throughout the year to champion local produce, and the twice-weekly market is also very popular with people from across the region.
As well as being a foodie's heaven, Melton Mowbray is a hotspot for history buffs. The town's heritage walking trail guides you through a thousand years of history, from a mention of the Melton Mowbray market in the Doomsday Book to a Roman Catholic Church built by the Polish community that, after exile during World War II, settled in the town in the 1940s.
If you play or enjoying watching bowls, you'll be interested to know that the English Indoor Bowling Association (EIBA) is based in Melton Mowbray and that the Melton & District Indoor Bowls Club hosts the EIBA National Championship annually.
If you fancy trying bowls for the first time, the bowls club offers three free starter sessions before you decide if you want to join - it's a great way of meeting new people!And if you're something of an ale connoisseur (or not!), at Belvoir Alehouse Visitor Centre you can sample the delicious range of ales brewed on site. Or why not take a tour of the brewery and discover how this wonderful range of beers is produced.
- Conveniently situated close to these local amenities:
- Bus Stop 0.3 miles
- Doctors 0.5 miles
- Farmers Market 0.3 miles
- Supermarket 0.3 miles
The development is just 0.3 miles from the twice-weekly market and weekly antiques fair. Just a short stroll from here, you’ll also find the Dickinson & Morris Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe, which specialises in the iconic Melton Mowbray pork pies.
The train station is under 1 mile away and has direct services to Nottingham, Birmingham, Norwich, Cambridge and many other destinations.
Getting to Location
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Smooth Move
Nobody expects moving home to be easy, but we’re here to help you every step of the way; from the moment you make a reservation, through to the day you move in. Our Smooth Move service ensures everything goes like clockwork, which includes helping with the cost*.
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