4 bedroom detached house

Wimbles Cottage is an attractive red-brick family home offering almost 2,300 sq. ft. of flexible accommodation arranged in an L-shaped configuration over two floors. It is believed the original house dates back to the 17th Century. The house has been updated beautifully throughout to create a stylish and charming feel which designed to provide an ideal family home. The ground floor accommodation flows from a welcoming wooden floored reception hall with a generous neighbouring rear aspect study. The reception hall is flanked on either side by inner halls, one giving access to a spacious dual aspect L-shaped sitting room with feature fireplace, woodburning stove and French doors to the front aspect. The other hallway leads to a useful cloakroom, fitted utility room with Belfast sink and a large dual aspect kitchen/dining room with a range of wall and base units, wooden worktops, a Belfast sink, an electric Aga and two sets of French doors to the garden. Accessible over separate staircases rising from the inner halls, the first floor offers a large principal bedroom with vaulted ceiling. Bedroom 2 benfits from a Jack and Jill family bathroom with freestanding slipper bath and separate walk-in shower. Two further well-proportioned double bedrooms and a separate family shower room

Surrounded by Bucklebury Common and Blacklands Copse, the picturesque village of Upper Bucklebury is ideal for the keen walker, cyclist or rider, and offers a good range of day-to-day amenities including a general store, Post Office, public house, church and popular primary school. More comprehensive independent shopping can be found in Thatcham while Newbury offers more extensive facilities including a cinema, theatres, High Street with independent stores, several cafés and restaurants. Communications links are excellent: trains from Newbury and Thatcham station reach London Paddington within the hour and the nearby M4 and A34 provides excellent access to the West Country, and national motorway network beyond. The area has a good range of state schooling including Bucklebury CE Primary School in the village and Kennet School (rated Outstanding by Ofsted) together with numerous noted independent schools including Brockhurst & Marlston House, Downe House, Elstree, The Cedars, Cheam, St. Gabriel’s and Bradfield College.

The property is approached over a sweeping driveway providing private off-road parking for multiple vehicles and giving access to the detached stable block with hardstanding, four loose boxes, a tack room and hay barn and to the neighbouring 60 x 20m all-weather arena/manège. The garden surrounding the property is laid mainly to lawn and features well-stocked flowerbeds, mature trees, a summer house with decked verandah and front and side aspect terraces, ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining, the whole overlooking the property’s 4.5 acres of gently-sloping stock-fenced paddocks. The property also benefits from the old stables with two loose boxes and a store.