The Property

Accommodation

Inside

Ground Floor
The front door opens into a roomy and welcoming reception area with doors leading to the shower room and walk in store plus an opening and shallow step down into the dining area. The floor is laid in an attractive and practical tile that continues into the dining area and kitchen as well as the sitting room. The dining area provides a great social space for informal dining with character features, such as exposed ceiling beams and stone walls. There are display/book shelves and a storage cupboard. From the dining area there is a door to the side lobby and into the sitting room. It opens to the kitchen area.

The kitchen area enjoys an outlook to the drive and a glazed door with full height windows to either side that opens to the rear garden. There is a vaulted ceiling with exposed timber frame and velux window. The kitchen is fitted with a range of modern, soft closing units consisting of floor cupboards, separate drawer unit, pull out spice racks and eye level cupboards and cabinet plus a dresser style unit. There is a generous amount of quartz work surfaces with a matching upstand and double Butler style sink with a swan neck aerator mixer tap. There is a central island with a wood work surface, storage cupboards, drawers and breakfast area. There is space for a fridge/freezer and an integrated wash machine. The electric Aga is available by separate negotiation. - (it’s an AGA R3 100-4h, twin dome and is 4 years old in October).

The generously sized sitting room has a window to the side and a door with full height windows to either side opening to the rear garden. There is plenty of room for settees and armchairs as well as having a study area, if required. The fireplace benefits from a wood burner, stairs rise to the first floor and a door opens into a further reception room that provides a multi-functional space - formal dining room, play room or as a ground floor bedroom. Both the sitting room and reception room have exposed stone walls and timbers. A door opens to the side lobby where there is a cupboard housing the boiler and door to the outside.

First Floor
From the galleried landing there is access to the bedrooms and the cloakroom, which is fitted with a combination unit of vanity style wash hand basin, WC, cupboards and work/display surfaces. There are two good sized double bedrooms (both able to accommodate a king size bed), bedroom one overlooks the rear garden and bedroom two benefits from fitted wardrobes. The third bedroom is a single and currently used as an office.

Outside

Garage and Parking
The property lies behind another cottage at the end of a shared drive where there is parking for one car and leads to a large garage. This has timber doors opening out and benefits from light and power plus a storage area at the end of the garage. It measures - 5.87 mx 5.26 m/19'3'' x 17'3'' - plus the storage, which is about 1 m/3'. There are solar panels on the roof that provide an income.

Garden
At the back of the cottage there is a large, sunny and private garden that has been attractively landscaped. Outside of the kitchen there is a seating area that catches the sun as well as other seating areas throughout the garden. The greenhouse is also located in this sheltered and sunny spot. There are cobbled and gravelled paths. Raised beds ready for vegetable growing plus a lawn. Below the garden, the River Lodden winds its way.

Useful Information

Energy Efficiency Rating C
Council Tax Band D
Sustainable Wood Framed Double Glazing
Gas Fired Central Heating from a Combination Boiler - about 3 years old
Mains Drainage
Freehold
The kitchen and shower room benefit from electric underfloor heating
Wholly Owned Solar Panels providing an income and reducing costs.

Directions

From Gillingham High Street

Leave the office heading towards Shaftesbury. Proceed through two sets of lights. The property will be found on the left hand side - set back off the road - behind The Haywain, shortly after the second set of lights. Postcode SP8 4JZ.