Beautiful Victorian town house in a popular location.

Description

A beautifully presented Victorian semi-detached town house offering first class accommodation of exceptional character and arranged over four floors. The property is approached up steps leading to the front door and into the welcoming reception hall with its fine turned staircase leading to the first floor. There are two superb reception rooms, the drawing room and sitting room. The drawing room is exceptionally attractive with large sash windows, a beautiful open fireplace and ornate ceiling cornicing. An opening leads through to the sitting room, this room is equally attractive and could be adopted as a formal dining room. The kitchen/breakfast room is a wonderful feature to the house, a large room having been extended to create a superb space for the Bulthaup fitted kitchen and appliances with considerable room for a large breakfast table. There are doors that lead out to the garden and a cloakroom completes the ground floor accommodation.

On the lower ground floor there are two rooms which could be used either as bedrooms or as they are now, one as a television room/cinema and the other a playroom. There is a separate access to the outside, a cloakroom and shower room, utility room and cellar. The lower ground floor could easily be converted to a basement apartment. On the first floor there are two excellent bedrooms, a study which overlooks the garden and a large shower room. On the second floor there are three further bedrooms and a family bathroom.

OUTSIDE
There is off-road parking for two vehicles at the front of the house and also on street permit parking. To the rear of the house is an exceptionally attractive part walled garden, beautifully stocked with a variety of flowering shrubs and plants. Adjacent to the doors from the kitchen/breakfast room is a large terrace with a gate providing side access to the garden. The lawned gardens lie beyond the terrace leading up to an attractive summer house, the gardens then extend further to landscaped areas and a large garden.
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Location

Edgar Road is situated in the heart of the St. Cross conservation area to the south of the centre of Winchester. The area, renowned for its high-quality Victorian housing stock, is situated conveniently for the pedestrian shopping centre in the High Street with access to a wealth of shops restaurants and recreational facilities including the theatre Royal and local cinema. Winchester College and the water meadows of St. Cross stretch along the banks of the river Itchen nearby. There are splendid walks through the historic cathedral streets the water meadows and onto St. Catherine‘s hill.

Winchester is approximately 57 minutes by train from London Waterloo, the M3 motorway (Junction 9, 10 and 11) is within easy reach making both London and Southampton readily accessible. The interconnection with the M27 make Southampton International Airport easily commutable and also opens up the south coast of New Forest. The A34 to the north provides access to Oxford, the Midlands and the A303 to the west country.

Square Footage: 3,025 sq ft