Property description

CHAIN-FREE SALE Naturally screened and set back, an individual older style detached house needing modernisation on a 1/5th acre established garden plot.

Description
Enjoying a South Westerly facing level rear garden providing informal lawned and kitchen garden areas, this well proportioned 3 bedroom house is believed to date from the 1950s and affords enlarged ground floor accommodation with a long driveway, parking and garaging being set back over 60 ft from Anstey Lane. Hornbeams is one of several similar aged and older detached properties on the Western side of the road. The property is being sold for the first time in over 30 years we gather. The layout allows the optional use of the study as a fourth bedroom with this room, the sitting room and second bedroom enjoying the rear aspect over gardens. The main internal walls are of solid construction whilst there is double glazing and a gas heating system with radiators. The four main rooms also feature double aspects.

Location
Elevated and set back from Anstey Lane, Hornbeams has vistas towards open countryside including the North Downs with this largely residential road having an attractive array of varying aged and sized properties with a strong 1930s influence. Conveniently, the neighbourhood also has a Tesco Express, the Convent School, Anstey Park with its recreational facilities, interest clubs and fitness studio, a shopping parade and eateries, Wooteys junior and infant school, and a network of footpaths both within the town outskirts but also out to downland countryside. Within 1 mile is Alton rail station and a Waitrose store whilst the town also provides High Street shops, M&S and Sainsbury's stores, churches, 2 senior schools, Alton College, weekly and specialist open air market events, a sports centre and two outlying golf courses.

Ground Floor

Reception Hall - 10' 2'' x 7' 2'' (3.10m x 2.18m) main area including stairway
Via covered entrance with outside light and part single glazed panelled wooden front door. Radiator, coved ceiling, thermostat. Built-in understairs store cupboard - exposed floorboards, electric and gas meters, electric consumer unit.

Cloakroom
Single glazed windows at front and side. Primrose suite of WC and corner handbasin, tiled splashback, radiator, tiled effect vinyl floor.

Sitting Room - 21' 2'' x 10' 2'' (6.45m x 3.10m)
Twin aspect - main to the rear garden via sliding patio door - secondary replacement Upvc side aspect. Fitted Black Beauty Unigas II enclosed coal effect balanced flue gas fire. Radiator, coved ceilings, TV aerial socket. Glazed door to:-

Study/Bedroom 4 - 10' 9'' x 7' 0'' (3.27m x 2.13m)
Rear garden aspect via replacement Upvc window. Radiator, telephone socket (subject to connection). Part glazed door to kitchen.

Dining Room - 11' 11'' x 10' 8'' (3.63m x 3.25m) Overall
L-shaped 11' 11'' x 7' 3'' (3.63m x 2.21m) plus 7' 0'' x 3' 5'' (2.13m x 1.04m)Twin aspect - main over front garden. Coved ceiling, radiator, telephone point(subject to connection).

Kitchen - 13' 1'' x 10' 9'' (3.98m x 3.27m)
Side aspect with single glazed fanlight. Pine panelled walls. Fitted series of floor cupboards with drawers, laminated worktops, inset circular single drainer sink and matching wall cabinets. Integrated split level Tricity Bendix electric double oven and Moffat gas hob with concealed hood. Plumbing for washing machine, space for fridge/freezer. Radiator. Tiled effect vinyl flooring. Corner cupboard housing Potterton Kingfisher Mf gas boiler on quarry tiled base, time clock. Glazed door to driveway. Door to hall.

First Floor

Galleried Landing - 10' 11'' x 6' 11'' (3.32m x 2.11m) main area including stairwell.
Side aspect - rooftop views over gardens towards countryside. Approached from reception hall via spindle balustraded stairs fitted with stair lift to matching galleried landing. Coved ceiling. Built-in airing cupboard, hot water cylinder, immersion heater. Hatch to loft.

Bedroom 1 - 14' 3'' x 10' 5'' (4.34m x 3.17m)
Twin aspect - front with angled rooftop views to North Downs. Pair of side windows. Including a pair of fitted double wardrobes. Coved ceiling, radiator. Telephone extension point (subject to connection).

Bedroom 2 - 11' 1'' x 10' 1'' (3.38m x 3.07m)
Twin aspect - main view over own and neighbouring rear gardens. Including 2 fitted double shelved cupboards/wardrobes. Coved ceiling, radiator.

Bedroom 3 - 8' 8'' x 7' 5'' (2.64m x 2.26m)
Front aspect - angled rooftop view towards North Downs. Coved ceiling, radiator.

Bathroom - 7' 11'' x 5' 6'' (2.41m x 1.68m)
2 rear windows. Avocado suite of panelled bath, pedestal wash basin and WC. Part tiled walls, chrome heated towel rail, heater lamp.

Detached Garage - 18' 7'' x 9' 5'' (5.66m x 2.87m)
Brick construction. Up-and-over door, 2 lights, double power point. Twin aspect - 3 single glazed windows, ledged and braced pine side door. Long driveway via tarmacadam style entrance/turning/parking to concreted side. Outside tap.

Good Sized Mature Gardens
Screened by Hornbeam trees and evergreens to the front, there is a circular rose garden in the lawn, flower borders, Acer and Wisteria. Concrete side path to timber garden shed. Side garage metal gate leads to the South Westerly facing rear garden. A sheltered paved sun terrace adjoining the sitting room is flanked by shrubs and evergreens with outside light and lean-to vinery. Greenhouse. The shaped level rear lawn has borders stocked with a wide variety of plants and shrubs. There are hidden paths, a pond with rushes and several ornamental fruit trees. A natural archway with paved path leads to the screened kitchen garden. Corrugated plastic greenhouse. Fruit cage. Timber shed. The rear garden measures 136ft x 36ft. Overall plot size 0.2 acre (0.08 hectare).

NB
We have been unable to confirm whether certain items included with this property are in full working order. Any prospective purchaser must accept that the property is for sale on this basis.

Local Authority
East Hampshire District Council, Penns Place, Durford Road, Petersfield GU31 4EX. Tel: 01730 266551 www.easthants.gov.uk

Directions
From Alton Town Centre, proceed away Eastwards from the town via Normandy Street becoming Anstey Road. After passing the B3004 Kingsley Road on the right, near Alton Station, turn 6th left into Anstey Lane. After passing the Tesco Express, the property is the 5th detached property on the left.