Property description
Set back off the clifftop, a fine family home affording coastal views from the first floor with the backdrop of the Isle of Wight.
Accessed over a short gated gravelled lane, the property is constructed of traditional rough cast colour wash rendered brick incorporating low-maintenance UPVC double glazed casements, surmounted in the main by a steep pitched slate roof with characteristic cropped hips. The property offers accommodation arranged over 2 floors opening off an L-shaped dining hall with an internal hall. The property provides for a fine through sitting room with an adjacent sizable study. To the rear is a kitchen/breakfast room that links to the adjacent dining hall. A rear hall/lobby provides a utility area with a useful ground floor cloakroom. Overhead, a total of 4 bedrooms are served by an independent bathroom and separate shower room.
Externally, the property stands in a well stocked level garden affording the occupants a high degree of privacy and seclusion, with an attached garage that has through doors enabling access to the rear garden being the location for a further range of useful timber built outbuildings.
4 bedrooms, bathroom, shower room, cloakroom, sitting room, study, kitchen/breakfast room, rear lobby, garage, outbuilding/store room, gardensMILFORD ON SEA The village of Milford on Sea offers comprehensive shopping facilities, mainly set around a triangular village green, public houses, restaurants, churches, a village school and country club. Delightful beach and clifftop walks may be enjoyed with spectacular views and a wide variety of sporting and recreational activities is offered within the New Forest which lies to the north. The Bournemouth to Southampton bus route via New Milton and Lymington passes through the village, and the mainline railway station at New Milton (approximately 3½ miles) provides a frequent fast train service to London/Waterloo.
ACCOMMODATION IN MORE DETAIL Stairs ascending to the first floor. Access to an understairs storage cupboard. Picture rail. Access to a general cloaks store cupboard. Access to:
SITTING ROOM A fine, naturally well lit through room with exposed wooden floor covering throughout. Feature flame effect electric fire set in a raised ornamental fire surround. Access to a full height walk-in shelved store area. Further feature open traditional fireplace with projecting glazed ceramic tiled insets with a simple rustic carved wood surround. Glazed double doors opening to paved seating terrace leading to gardens beyond. Picture rail. Door through to:
STUDY Fitted with a range of display shelving. Picture rail.
KITCHEN/BREAKFAST ROOM Fitted with a range of painted wood store cabinets to both base and high level with surrounding carved wooden worksurfaces with contrasting tiled relief and areas of open display shelving. Inset appliances in the form of a Belfast style sink with monobloc tap, with space to side for dishwasher and adjacent slot-in style cooker. Wall mounted concealed Worcester gas fired boiler for heating and hot water requirements throughout the property. Return open archway to dining area. Glazed door to:
REAR LOBBY Tiled floor covering throughout. Space for fridge/freezer. Angled shelved larder store cupboards. Space and plumbing for washing machine and tumble dryer. Part glazed door to exterior paved seating terrace and gardens beyond.
CLOAKROOM Suite comprised of a low-level WC together with a wall-mounted wash hand basin.
ON THE FIRST FLOOR
LANDING Access to overhead roof void. Dado rail.
BEDROOM 1 Situated to the rear of the property with a fine outlook over the gardens. Vanity unit incorporating a wash hand basin with base store cupboard under. Feature fireplace surround.
BEDROOM 2 Affording a fine open outlook with the backdrop of the Isle of Wight in the distance. Glazed door to projecting enclosed BALCONY at the side.
BEDROOM 3 Situated to the front overlooking the drive approach. Fitted with a range of general store cupboards to one wall.
BEDROOM 4 Situated to the front of the property with a fine open outlook across towards the Isle of Wight. Picture rail.
BATHROOM Fitted with a white suite comprised of a wood clad panelled bath set in a similar tiled surround with an Edwardian style shower mixer facility. Matching pedestal wash hand basin with mirrored and tiled relief and a low-level WC. Access to a shelved Airing Cupboard incorporating a pre-lagged hot water cylinder with fitted immersion heater. Painted wood panelling to dado height. Wall light point.
SHOWER ROOM Fitted with a suite comprised of a tiled enclosed shower cubicle together with a pedestal wash hand basin and low-level WC. Painted wood panelling to dado height.
OUTSIDE The property is approached off an unmade gravelled access lane, the driveway running through substantial gates onto a gravelled approach which provides parking suitable for a number of vehicles, with the backdrop of evergreen hedgework, offset by an area of lawn. Adjacent to the property is an attached GARAGE with doors to both ends enabling use through the complex leading to a further concrete and gravelled area in turn leading to a detached OUTBUILDING/STORE ROOM. The gardens incorporate a small area of orchard with a variety of soft fruit trees. The fenced rear boundary abuts an area of light woodland.
SERVICES 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 the centre of the village, continue west along the clifftop turning right towards the end of the clifftop into West Road. Continue the length of West Road. When the tarmacadam road terminates, continue directly ahead onto the gravelled lane bearing right at the head of the lane into the approach drive.
VIEWING Strictly By Appointment through John D Wood & Co.
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