Superbly geared to family life with an impressive indoor pool, gym and spa complex and beautifully presented staff and guest accommodation.

Description

Situated within its own private park, Queens House is a family house presented to an outstanding standard.

This Victorian period property boasts elegant reception rooms all with a south facing aspect along with wonderful views over the mature gardens and park like setting.

The design and facilities are geared to supporting the best of family life and include a superb indoor swimming pool and gym complex with gymnasium.

The principal reception rooms which all face south and lead off the large and impressive entrance hall. The drawing room has a double aspect and working fireplace.

The study/library in common with all the other rooms on this floor has ceiling speakers and underfloor heating. The splendid dining room will comfortably seat 12 and can be approached both from the hall and kitchen with beautiful garden views.

There is a spectacular family kitchen which leads onto a family room that measures over 40 feet with French doors onto a large terrace.

This superb space has air conditioning and inbuilt sound plus AV system. The extensively fitted kitchen has been designed and installed by Smallbone with a beautiful gas fired Aga.

The first floor features the main family accommodation including a spectacular principal bedroom suite with bathroom and dressing room, all the rooms on this floor have air conditioning.

A second floor is brilliantly arranged either for children, a live in nanny or further spare guest accommodation with an en suite fitted with Lefroy Brooks bathroom ware.

Location

Queens House is located within some of Hampshire's most beautiful countryside in gently rolling downland within the North Wessex Downs area, sitting on the edge of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Monk Sherborne is a thriving village with a local shop and public house. Road links are excellent with both the M3 and M4 for fast access to London and the West and the A34 providing a north-south link.

The area is well known for its highly-regarded preparatory and public schools including Cheam, St Gabriels, Horris Hill, Daneshill, Farleigh, Ludgrove, Elstree, Downe House, Radley, Bradield, Wellington and Marlborough.

Above all else Queens House is ideally placed to pursue any number of recreational activities offering numerous walks and bridleways throughout the surrounding countryside. Renowned riding school at Wellington which has an international reputation is nearby.

There is a shooting school at Oakley and of course Hampshire is renowned for its many private shoots.

The finest chalk stream rivers in the country are less that 30 miles away in the Test Valley.

There are a number of excellent pubs and fine dining restaurants including the Wellington Arms at nearby Baughurst. Lovely country pubs with the Watership Down and The Jack Russell at Faccombe all within an easy drive. The superb Hampshire Four Seasons hotel and Heckfield Place also within easy reach.

Being so well placed it is also easy to plan day visits to the New Forest and sailing on the South Coast.




Acreage: 13.23 Acres

Directions

• Heathrow Airport – 38 miles • Farnborough Airport – 21 miles
• Train from Basingstoke to Clapham Junction – 38 minutes and
Waterloo 45 minutes • Southampton Airport – 37 miles
• Highclere Castle – 12.5 miles

Additional Info

This former coach house has been converted to provide superb secondary accommodation and is finished to the same exceptional standard as the principal house.

There are two bedrooms and two bathrooms along with a generous reception and kitchen/breakfast room. This space would work particularly well as a home office as it is separate from the main house.

The coach house and barn provide elegant guest lodgings with two bedrooms and two bathrooms, staff accommodation, and a state of the art indoor swimming pool, spa and gym. The pool is Ozoned cleaned, with Bluetooth controlled underwater mood lighting, Sonos and underfloor heating to both pool and gym.

The grounds and gardens, which extend to over 13 acres at Queens House are outstanding and offer a family all the space for adventures and fun that anyone could want, including a beautiful orchard and vegetable garden.

The mature gardens are sensitively planted offering summer colour and are irrigated and complimented by an extensive landscaped park with mature trees and a beautifully positioned lake. For the adventurous the wood has a zip wire. There is a small stable with water and electric allowing space for a pair of horses as well as a paddock.