KEYSTONE & VALE
A curving Georgian crescent of honey stone at blue hour, its sash windows lit, the wet pavement reflecting a street lamp
Scene 01 / Bath / Blue hour

The right move begins at the door.

An independent estate agency for Bath and the villages of the southern Cotswolds. Twelve people, one office, and every detail kept close.
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Sales · Lettings · Property management · New homes
Bath and the southern Cotswolds
02 / Our name

A keystone is the single piece that holds the whole arch in place.

That is how we see our work: not a run of listings, but the steady point between a home, its owner and whoever comes through the door next. We know the streets we cover because our agents live in them.

Independent in Bath. Twelve people. One office.

The keystone at the crown of a weathered stone arch, wet after rain and caught in moonlight
03 / On the books

Homes, not inventory.

Seven homes across Bath and the villages, each valued, photographed and measured by the agent who will show you round.

  • A tall Georgian stone townhouse at dusk, three storeys of lit sash windows behind iron railings
    For sale · £1,250,000

    Albery Place, Lansdown

  • A white stucco terrace house with a columned porch and a lit fanlight above stone steps
    To let · £2,950 pcm

    Merrow Terrace, Weston

  • A modern family house with a dark cedar upper storey and tall lit windows above a planted garden
    For sale · £1,095,000

    The Cedar House

  • A honey-stone village cottage with small lit windows framed by climbing plants
    For sale · £585,000

    Weavers Cottage, Freshford

  • A row of stone cottages with tall chimneys along a quiet lane at dusk
    Under offer · £465,000

    Quarry Row, Larkhall

  • An Edwardian stone terrace house with a two-storey bay window lit at dusk
    To let · £1,850 pcm

    Halse Road, Bear Flat

  • A long stone terrace with tall chimney stacks against a deep blue evening sky
    For sale · £740,000

    Pennant Row, Widcombe

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04 / Featured house / Weston

The Larch House

Four bedrooms gathered around a double-height glazed hall. Pale larch and black boards outside, a south-facing roof terrace upstairs, parking for two, and the park a ten-minute walk away.
A modern house clad in pale larch and black boards, its double-height glazed hall glowing at dusk
Offers over £1,450,000 · Freehold · Energy rating B
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05 / Featured apartment / Walcot

The Printworks

Two bedrooms on the top floor of a converted print works, made for the western light. £575,000 with a share of the freehold.
A top-floor loft with tall arched windows, steel beams under a timber ceiling, a cream sofa and a lit shelving wall

  1. Living room

    Oak boards throughout, from the shelving wall to the kitchen.

    8.0 × 5.4 m

  2. Shelving wall

    Built-in steel and oak shelving that stays with the flat.

    Included in the sale

  3. Dining

    Room for a table of six under the pendant lights.

    Seats six

  4. Upper volume

    Exposed steel beams and the print works' timber deck overhead.

    4.5 m ceilings

  5. Reading corner

    Room for an armchair by the arched windows, where the last light falls.

    West-facing

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06 / What we do

The work around the move.

Four services from one office. Whoever answers the phone knows the street you are asking about.

  1. Selling

    A valuation, our own photographs and floor plans, and particulars written in-house for you to approve. The agent who values your home is at every viewing, evenings and Saturdays included, and you hear each buyer's feedback that day.

    A black camera resting on a floor plan drawing on an oak table

  2. Lettings and property management

    Tenant finding, referencing and deposit registration, with one named manager for each landlord. Full management means inspections twice a year with written notes and photographs, and repairs arranged below a limit you set.

    A hand turning a brass key in a dark panelled front door

  3. Valuations

    A written figure, with the three nearest comparable sales behind it, so you can check our reasoning.

    An empty Georgian room with tall sash windows, a marble fireplace and a patch of sun on the floorboards

  4. New homes and small developments

    Advice for local builders on layout, specification and pricing before they build, then the marketing of the finished homes.

    Squares of limestone, travertine, walnut and woven fabric fanned out on a builder's table
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07 / A sale, in sequence

Nothing passed on. Nothing left vague.

One sequence, one accountable agent, from the first visit to exchange.
  1. An open notebook, a pen and a stoneware cup on an oak table

    01 — Value

    We visit, then put the figure in writing with the three nearest comparable sales.

  2. A black camera with its strap coiled beside it on a timber surface

    02 — Make

    Our own photographs, floor plans and particulars. You approve them before anything is published.

  3. An open panelled double door in a pale hallway, daylight falling through a tall window beyond

    03 — Show

    The agent who valued the home is at every viewing, evenings and Saturdays included.

  4. A black desk telephone on its cradle with a coiled cord

    04 — Report

    Feedback comes back the same day, in the buyer's own words.

  5. Heavy old iron chain links catching warm light

    05 — Check

    Before an offer reaches you, we check the buyer's mortgage, chain and deposit.

  6. Tall lit sash windows in a stone building at evening, behind a tree

    06 — Progress

    Until exchange, we call both solicitors and the lender every week.

08 / Places we know

Bath is read street by street.

Lansdown · Weston · Widcombe · Bear Flat · Larkhall · Walcot · the Limpley Stoke valley · Freshford
  • Bath at blue hour: a lit Georgian crescent, wooded hills with a spire and a river weir glowing in the foreground
  • A river weir below stone buildings at blue hour, the water catching lamplight
  • A narrow stone footpath between old walls climbing a hill at dusk, a lamp lit
  • The roofs and chimneys of a stone village in a valley in evening mist
  • Stone villas on a tree-lined hillside above the city at blue hour
Our area guides cover what a listing cannot — schools, stations, parking and the walk to the shops — written by agents who live in the streets they cover.
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09 / Six of twelve

You know who is holding the key.

Each agent covers a patch they live in, and stays with your sale or tenancy from start to finish.
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Portrait of Hugh Bellamy, grey-haired, in a navy jacket, smiling against Bath stone
Hugh Bellamy
Founding director
Sales · Lansdown and Weston
Portrait of Mai Okafor-Lin with short curly hair, in a black blazer, looking aside
Mai Okafor-Lin
Senior sales agent
Sales · the valley villages
Portrait of Daniel Asante with a short beard, in a dark jacket, looking aside
Daniel Asante
Sales agent
Sales · Widcombe and Bear Flat
Portrait of Rosa Delgado with long dark wavy hair, in a black jumper, smiling
Rosa Delgado
Head of lettings
Lettings · the city centre
Portrait of Luca Moretti with dark hair and a short beard, in a charcoal jacket
Luca Moretti
Lettings manager
Lettings · Larkhall and Walcot
Portrait of Freya Hollis with wavy blonde hair beside a tall bright window
Freya Hollis
Sales progressor
From offer to completion
10 / Client voices

What remained after the move.

Hugh valued it, took the photographs and was at every one of the eleven viewings. When the first buyer's chain broke, he had the second ready by the Friday.
Claire and Martin Ashdown, Sold a Georgian house in Lansdown
They told us our asking price was too high and showed us why. We listened.
Priya Nair, Sold a flat in Widcombe
Three tenancies in six years and I have never chased a repair. Rosa sends the inspection notes the same afternoon.
Gareth Lowe, Landlord, fully managed
As buyers we expected to be an afterthought. Mai rang us first.
Tom and Ana Feeney, Bought a cottage in Freshford
Freya rang the other solicitor every Tuesday until we exchanged.
Sam Whitlock, Sold a terrace in Larkhall
11 / The agreement

No small print in the shadows.

What we charge, how long you are committed, and what moving to us costs — in plain words before you sign anything.

The sales fee

A percentage of the sale price, quoted in writing after the valuation and due on completion. Photographs, floor plans and listings are included, with no extras.

The agreement

It runs for ten weeks, then continues on a rolling basis with fourteen days' notice either way.

Moving a let property to us

We take over the deposit registration and the safety certificates, and prepare a fresh inventory at no extra cost.
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12 / Questions

Before we begin.

Still weighing something up?
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The agent who valued your home, every time, evenings and Saturdays included. If they are away, the colleague who covers them will have been to the house first.
13 / Contact

Tell us where the story begins.

Selling, letting, managing, buying or renting: give us the outline and the agent who covers that patch will take it from there.
Office
4 Vale Mews, Bath BA2 4VX
Email
hello@keystonevale.example
Phone
0117 496 0732
Hours
Monday–Friday 8.30–18.00 · Saturday 9.00–16.00
Viewings
Into the evening by appointment
A hand turning a key in a glossy dark front door at night, lamplight to one side
Keystone & Vale4 Vale Mews, Bath BA2 4VX

Bath stone buildings across a misty river at night, one upper window lit, a wet parapet in the foreground
End frame / Bath / Night

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Keystone & Vale
Twelve people · One office