5 bedroom house

SOLD SUBJECT TO CONTRACT VIA FINE & COUNTRY

Guide Price £1,300,000 - £1,600,000. Situated in the highly desirable Yopps Green, an exclusive leafy hamlet of Plaxtol and in an area of outstanding natural beauty, ‘Keelers’ is a distinctive detached period property set in 0.4 of an acre with superbly stocked and landscaped gardens.

Originally built within the grounds of Little Damas, a neighbouring 15th Century Hall House, ‘Keelers’ c.1900, has been substantially and artfully extended over a number of years with a fine eye to detail to preserve and enhance the charm of the period. Typical of the period, Keelers has part brick elevations and part tile hung in patterned terracotta scallop tiles, under pitched gabled roofs and set back from the road by mature hedging and gardens.

An outstanding feature of Keelers is the well stocked wonderful gardens surrounding the property with winding paths leading to luscious lawns, secret areas of wonderful shrubbery and specimen trees and plants, and a waterfall connecting two ornamental ponds.

Internally the accommodation is over three levels, comprising of, entrance hall, cloakroom, sitting room, dining/sun room, kitchen breakfast room, scullery/utility room. To the first and second floors there are five double bedrooms, study/sixth bedroom and office, two shower rooms and a bathroom. Externally the pitched roof detached double garage has stairs to a useful storage room above.

A delightful feature to the entrance is the original sloping cast iron canopy supported by three caste iron pillars. This provides an ideal seating area looking over toward the Bourne Valley. The light and spacious reception hall, warm and inviting has the original parquet floor and balustrade rising to the first floor and a downstairs cloakroom. The elegant sitting room, also with original parquet floor has French doors opening to the front covered canopy and casement windows to the side overlooking the garden. The decorative fireplace has a marble hearth and open chimney.
A formal dining room with parquet floors, casement windows with views across the gardens, opens into the original sun room. Completely restored this delightful room has casement windows to all sides and French doors opening onto the garden and paved seating areas.

The kitchen breakfast room has a warm terracotta tiled floor which compliments the hand painted kitchen units. An extremely bright and spacious room, with triple aspect windows and a door to the garden. ‘Bosch’ integrated appliances. A useful lobby has storage units and access to a large fitted scullery/utility room housing the oil central heating boiler and water softener.

The principal bedroom on the first floor has a dressing room area with full height wardrobes and a luxuriously fitted en suite shower room. There are two further double bedrooms on this floor, a study which could conform to a sixth bedroom and an office. The Victorian styled family bathroom is fully tiled with green and white tiles, tiled floor, free standing Royal Doulton cast iron bath, low level WC and pedestal wash hand basin. The two further double bedrooms on the upper floor with a shower room and a rain sensor roof window.