5 bedroom detached house

High Ridge House and Farm comprises a modern country house with excellent equestrian facilities. The house holds a commanding position at the top of a hill overlooking much of the property with the yard and equestrian buildings behind it. Benefitting from both indoor and outdoor menages High Ridge Farm has extensive stabling, workshops, offices, portal framed buildings, flat and a separate bungalow.

In all extending to about 59.30 acres (24.05 ha).

With brick and exposed timber elevations, High Ridge House extends to over 5,000 sq.ft and is a handsome property which offers spacious, light and airy accommodation with a neutral colour palette and versatile-use rooms arranged across three floors. The ceramic tiled flooring in the enerous reception hall offers practicality and a sense of uniformity extending into the open-plan kitchen, dining and family room. Filled with natural light, courtesy of glazed bi-folding and French doors which open onto a garden terrace, this reception area provides the hub of the home with a seamless indoor to outdoor living environment. The kitchen is fitted with contemporary cabinetry, topped with marble work top and features a Belfast sink, a larder and an island unit in complementary tones, which reates a functional divide to the adjoining dining and casual seating area. Further ground floor accommodation comprises a sitting room with feature fireplace, a gym with doors to the garden and a study. Outdoor wear can be cast off and stored in the spacious utility room which offers a home to domestic appliances. On the first floor, there are four en suite bedrooms, with the principal room having a well-fitted dressing room and stylish adjoining bathroom. Whilst there is a central staircase, three of the bedrooms have independent stairways which provide private access tothe floor above offering options for use as annexe accommodation deally suited to guests. The top floor comprises a bedroom and adjacent bathroom, with large attic spaces providing flexible uses and excellent storage.

BUNGALOW
Sited to the south eastern boundary and with separate access from Newnham Road is a bungalow of about 570 sq.ft comprising 1 large bedroom with kitchen / diner, bathroom with shower and a courtyard garden. The property has been designed to have 2 beds but has been converted to form 1 large room only.

BUILDINGS
Identified on the separate buildings plan and floorplan the property benefits from a well designed and developed yard providing over 18,000 sq.ft of buildings with a variety of uses. There is in addition . An American barn style stable yard is sited nearest the house containing 10 modular stables with concrete floors, tack and washrooms. A feed store of similar construction lies adjacent. To the core of the yard is an indoor arena measuring 30m x 20m with boarded sides, fibre sand surface and viewing area. Portal framed and with brick base it has wooden cladding to the exterior. To the side and bordering the land is an outdoor arena with fibre sand surface measuring 60m x 30 m. Railed and with floodlighting there is a sprinkler system from harvested rainwater from the indoor arena. 2 former silos have been converted for storage whilst to the southern boundary of the yard lies a separate stable yard with 10 stables in a mix of block and wooden construction. Adjacent is a set of pole barns forming covered storage. A 2 bay portal framed building with brick and clad sides houses both workshops and offices on opposite sides. The workshops comprise 2 separate units with roller shutter doors and concrete floors - a mezzanine with stairs is in one unit with a storage area in the other. There are 2 rooms with separate access,electricity and water on the southerly elevation. Adjacent is a portal framed storage barn with large doors, block base, box profile cladding and roof and concrete floors. Finally, to the eastern elevation of the yard is a portal framed agricultural barn with high eaves, concrete floor, roller shutter doors and a box profile roof and cladding. Adjacent is an area used for container and caravan storage. A schedule of rents and occupations can be made available on request.

METHOD OF SALE
For sale by private treaty as a whole.

BASIC PAYMENT SCHEME
Basic Payment Scheme entitlements are excluded from the sale.

PLANNING
Located within Hart District Council there are number of planning applications relating to the subject property on the planning portal.

ACCESS
The property is accessed by way of a long private drive from Ridge Lane. There is a secondary access from Newnham Road.

SERVICES
Mains gas, 3 phase electricity and water are connected. Drainage is to a private system.

WAYLEAVES EASEMENTS & RIGHTS OF WAY
The property is sold subject to the benefit of all rights including rights of way, whether public or private, light, support, drainage, water and electricity supplies and other rights and obligations, easements and proposed wayleaves from masts, pylons, stays, cables, drains, water, gas and other pipes whether specifically referred to or not.

HEALTH & SAFETY
All viewings are carried out at the sole risk of the viewer and neither the selling agent nor the vendor takes responsibility.

The property is situated in a semi-rural setting between the villages of Hook and Newnham with access from both Ridge Lane and Newnham Road. The property is located 1 mile from Hook, 6 miles east of Basingstoke, 15 miles south of Reading and 13 miles west from Farnborough. It is in good traveling distance for the larger conurbations of Winchester, Newbury and Andover. Central London is 46 miles.The A339, A287, A30 and M3 are close by providing access to London and the wider motorway network. Mainline train services to London Waterloo are from Hook (55 mins) or Basingstoke (46 mins).

Hook offers a good range of shopping facilities, including a Tesco supermarket, a doctors’ surgery, dentists, Post Office and public houses. Nearby Basingstoke provides a much wider range of amenities including mainline station, hospital and high street shops.

There is an infant and junior school both rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted and independent schools in the vicinity include Daneshill, St Neots, Lord Wandsworth College, Cheam School and St Nicholas’ School, Sherfield.

The property has an expanse of driveway to the front and side of the house providing turning circle and parking for numerous vehicles. Additional, covered parking is available in the triple car port, which has an external stairway rising to a room on the floor above. The garden comprises swathes of lawn with post-and-rail fencing to the boundaries allowing an open outlook over the paddocks and countryside beyond and a large paved terrace adjoins the rear of the home offering opportunities for outdoor dining and relaxation. There is a brick-built kennel with outside run.

LAND
Outside of the garden and yard area the land wraps around the house and extends to about 55.3 acres (22.38 ha) of railed paddocks and larger enclosures of land. In permanent pasture the land has mature boundary trees and hedges providing privacy and shelter and falls away from the house extending the vista. The paddocks behind the house have walkways leading back to the equine yard and have water laid on. The balance of the property provides the opportunity for further grazing and mowing is accessed via field gateways. In the agents opinion the land in front of the house could be landscaped to incorporate the driveway and create a very special setting.