Property description
An individual family home of character reputed to date back to the mid Victorian era, the cottage in its current format having derived from a Gamekeepers Cottage that has over the intervening years been subsequently enlarged and refurbished to an exemplary specification.
Constructed of mainly whitened colour washed brick incorporating low maintenance UPVC small pane casements with characteristic fan light tracery the property is surmounted by a mellow pitched clay roof.
The accommodation, arranged over two floors opens off a tiled hall with an adjacent cloaks/shower room, the hall opening to a fine gardenside dining room. To one side is a superb well appointed live-in kitchen/family room, a sitting room and a useful ground floor bedroom that would easily lend itself to being utilised as a study. Overhead a total of 3 additional bedrooms are served by an independent contemporary bathroom.
Externally, the property sits in a fine mature lawned garden that to one side features a small spring fed stream. Within the curtilage of the gardens that extend in total to an area of approximately 0.7 acre is a range of outbuildings in the form of a detached double garage with 2 useful adjacent workshop/stores. To the immediate rear is a fine timber studio/summerhouse that is currently arranged to provide for a bed/sitting room having a useful kitchenette and potential shower/cloakroom, with a home office and open loggia that overlooks the gardens.
4 bedrooms, bathroom, shower room, sitting room, dining room, kitchen/breakfast/family room, garage workshop, summer house, gardens, ample off road parking.LYMINGTON The Georgian market town of Lymington has a wide range of shops and boutiques, as well as having the benefit of excellent sailing facilities including two large marinas, a number of chandleries and moorings on the river and at the Town Quay for visiting Yachtsmen. Every Saturday there is a Charter Market which runs the entire length of the High Street. Lymington offers a branch line link to the Forest village of Brockenhurst (approximately 15 minutes), which is some 5 miles to the north by road, which in turn offers a mainline fast link to London (Waterloo 90 minutes approximately). Junction 1 of the M27 lies 12 miles to the north, and links with the M3 for access to London. Miles of open forest suitable for riding and walking can be accessed at Bull Hill, Pilley or the nearby hamlets of Norleywood and East End.
ACCOMMODATION IN MORE DETAIL Recessed storm porch with tiled floor covering. Painted panel door with glazed inset opens through to:
RECEPTION HALL Cloaks hanging area to side. Tiled floor covering. Door to:
SHOWER ROOM Fitted with a modern white suite comprised of a tiled shower cubicle with a Mira wall mounted shower together with a low-level WC and wall mounted wash hand basin with mixer tap, the whole set over a base store cupboards with a mirrored relief. Heated chromium ladder style towel rail. Extractor fan. Tiled floor covering.
DINING ROOM A splendid dual aspect room with twin small pane glazed casement doors to the rear overlooking the lawned gardens. Feature fireplace incorporating a projecting brick hearth with a blackened metal surround with inset multi fuel burning stove. Wall mounted thermostat control. Stairs ascend to first floor.
SITTING ROOM A fine dual aspect room with small pane glazed casement doors and side panel opening to the drive at the side.
GROUND FLOOR BEDROOM Situated to the front of the property.
KITCHEN/BREAKFAST/FAMILY ROOM A superb reception room situated to the rear of the property benefitting from a triple aspect outlook across the gardens, having the backdrop of farmland and ultimately the Isle of Wight. Tiled floor covering throughout.
KITCHEN AREA Traditional oil fired Rayburn set in a contrasting tiled surround with a range of base store cupboards to side and contrasting work surface. The kitchen is fitted with an extensive range of built-in easy clean store cabinets incorporating a full height fridge freezer with adjacent utility area. Further extensive base range of store cabinets with an oblong contemporary style sink and monobloc tap set in a blackened surround with an excellent range of pull out pan drawers to side. Built-in concealed dish washer with space and plumbing to side for a washing machine.
DINING AREA Ample unobstructed area dining area with further family area to side. Part glazed panel door to porch and gardens beyond.
ON THE FIRST FLOOR
LANDING Access to overhead roof void.
BEDROOM 1 A well proportioned triple aspect room that was previously two rooms. Fitted with a range of part obscure glazed wardrobe store cupboards to one wall. Access to an overhead roof void.
BEDROOM 2 Situated to the front of the property. Access to a useful deep wardrobe store cupboard. Picture rail.
BEDROOM 3 Situated to the front of the property.
BATHROOM Fitted with a contemporary white suite comprised of a panelled bath set in a tiled surround with a contemporary Moretti waterfall style tap with overhead drencher style shower and glazed side screen. Low-level WC with concealed cistern and wall mounted wash hand basin with waterfall style tap. Chromium ladder style towel rail. Tiled walls and floor covering. Access to an airing cupboard incorporating a pre-lagged hot water cylinder with fitted immersion heater.
OUTSIDE Detached garaging complex of brick and block construction surmounted by a pitched interlocking tiled roof. The complex comprises a DOUBLE GARAGE with two independent WORKSHOPS that have light and power connected. Abutting the garage is a painted timber built SUMMER HOUSE that incorporates a kitchenette area with a circular steel sink and drainer with a corresponding granite effect surround with a range of store cupboards to both base and high level. The summer house also has a potential shower room that contains a shower tray and low-level WC with pedestal wash hand basin and an adjacent OFFICE/HOME STUDIO with glazed door providing a return to an enclosed loggia.
GARDEN The property is approached off Milford Road over a broad sweeping gravelled driveway that features twin gates set on high piers at its head. The driveway provides enormous areas of unobstructed parking suitable for numerous vehicles.
Surrounding the property is fine well stocked lawned garden, part of which features a spring fed stream with the backdrop of deep well stocked decorative borders. To the rear of the property the extensive lawned gardens afford a high degree of privacy and seclusion having the backdrop of farmland and ultimately the Isle of Wight.
In all the gardens associated with Crewkerne extend in total to an area of approximately 0.7 acre (Promap).
SERVICES Oil fired heating (gas in road), mains water, drainage and electrictiy. The services and equipment remaining with the property have not been tested by John D Wood & Co. and we are unable to verify that they are in working order.
FIXTURES & FITTINGS All items usually denominated as fixtures and fittings, apart from those mentioned specifically in these particulars, are excluded from the sale.
DIRECTIONS From our office in Lymington, continue on up the High Street into St. Thomas' Street, bearing left on the one-way system out onto the Milford Road. Continue along the
Milford Road to the roundabout at Pennington Cross, taking the second turning off. Continue along the Milford Road passing the parade of shops where the entrance to the property will be seen on the left hand side approximately 250 yards after the junction with Elm Avenue.
VIEWING Strictly By Appointment by John D Wood & Co.
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