5 bedroom detached house for sale
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Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- 5 - 8 bedrooms
- 4 - 6 reception rooms
- 3 - 5 bathrooms
- Stunning 100 year old walled garden
- Field shelter and tack room
- Outbuildings
- Detached
- Parking
- Swimming Pool
- Terrace
The front door leads into a hallway off which are the utility room, cloakroom with a downstairs shower, kitchen and sitting room. The farmhouse-style kitchen forms the central hub to the home and has a lovely cosy feel. It has a four-oven, oil-fired AGA and an arch that leads through to the dining area. French doors lead from the dining area into a charming courtyard garden. The sitting room has a wood burner and provides access into the kitchen, study and drawing room. The 25' drawing room is particularly special and has an open Rayburn fireplace at one end, and French doors leading out to a second courtyard garden. The study could be used as a fifth bedroom and could use the shower/cloakroom off the hallway.
Stairs from the sitting room lead up to the first floor landing and corridor, off which are four bedrooms, a family bathroom and a separate WC. The principal bedroom has an en suite bathroom. Three of the four bedrooms overlook the lovely walled garden.
The 100-year-old walled garden offers the most wonderful tranquillity and privacy for a family. The walls provide shelter for the outdoor swimming pool and wide variety of specimen shrubs and fruit trees. Beside the pool is an original glasshouse that takes advantage of the southerly aspect with a prolific grapevine trained across the roof. In former times, the glasshouse would have provided soft fruit for the neighbouring Loddon Court and, with some renovation, could again be extremely productive. There is also a workshop, a store and two wells.
Accessed off the kitchen/dining area and the drawing room are a series of three very pretty, linked walled gardens which are mainly laid to lawn, with shrubs, bushes and flower borders. A gate leads into the main walled garden.
Off the main courtyard there is a gate that leads to a paddock with post and rail fencing, within which is a field shelter and tack room, an additional well and original pump handle.
Lot 2 – Spring Cottage. Spring Cottage is thought to have been the Grooms accommodation to the neighbouring property, Loddon Court. It is attached to The Coach House and an internal door, currently double-locked and sound-proofed, could bring the two homes into one on the ground floor.
Spring Cottage shares the same driveway as The Coach House and has its own separate private parking area for several vehicles beside the front garden and in front of the detached single garage. The front garden is delightful and has a grass lawn and an ornamental pond.
On the ground floor there is a bright, L-shaped sitting room and a separate dining room or study. The kitchen overlooks the front garden and there is a ground floor cloakroom.
Upstairs, the principal bedroom has an en suite shower room and there are two further bedrooms and a family bathroom.
To the rear of the cottage is a small south-facing walled courtyard that is accessed through the cottage through French door.
Reading 5 miles, Basingstoke 13.5 miles, Newbury 20 miles, London 41 miles, M4 (J11) 2.8 miles, London Paddington via Reading station 26 minutes, Heathrow 30 miles (All distances and times are approximate)
The property is situated in a rural position on the outskirts of Swallowfield (mentioned in the Doomsday Book) just to the south of Reading. The pretty, vibrant village of Swallowfield is surrounded by farmland and has a shop/post office, public houses (including the gourmet George & Dragon), doctor's surgery, church, parish hall and a very active tennis club close by in Riseley. The nearby centres of Reading, Wokingham and Basingstoke are all within easy daily reach and provide a broader range of shopping, recreational and educational facilities.
Communications in the area are first-class with the M3 and M4 motorways a short drive away. There are mainline stations at Reading – recently opened Crossrail giving access to Canary Wharf in 59 minutes. Mortimer station giving access to Reading or Basingstoke is just 4 miles away. Wokingham to London Waterloo providing fast and regular services.
There are a number of excellent state and private schools within the area, including Daneshill, St Neots, Wellington College, Lord Wandsworth College, Bradfield College and Pangbourne. In Wokingham you have The Forest and Holt schools, and of course up the top of the lane from the Coach House is Lambs Lane Primary school.
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