3 bedroom detached house for sale

A rare opportunity to acquire this uniquely charming Victorian lodge house on the Winchester side outskirts of the sought-after village of Twyford. Accessed from the B3335 Winchester Road into Twyford behind white double gates, the property is set in around 0.3 acres of mature gardens oriented south and west, with views of Twyford Church.

The property comprises a glazed link entrance hallway off a gravelled driveway with parking for two cars; two reception rooms, one retaining the octagonal 'lodge keeper's’ room, the other an impressive multi-use family room overlooking the beautiful garden; and three comfortable bedrooms one with an ensuite shower room. An additional shower room services bedrooms two and three. The attractive kitchen offers ample storage and preparation space; there is also a conservatory/utility room. Across the garden is a large Finnish insulated log cabin with power and woodburner heating, used as a home office/study/snug/storage, with an attached bicycle/mower shed.

The professionally designed gardens include a summerhouse, greenhouse and deer-proofed vegetable garden, and garden shed. Half the garden is managed as downland wildflower meadow (with 24 species of wildflowers), having an annual hay cut. There is a herbaceous border, shrubbery, orchard, and secluded pond garden by the log cabin. The property has undergone extensive modernisation: in 2020 the house was comprehensively retrofitted for energy conservation, with a new slate roof, cavity wall insulation, Air Source Heat Pump, 11 PV panels (roof and garden solar array), water cylinder i-boost and electric car charger. Solar energy powers domestic needs, and electric vehicles, and exports excess to the grid, substantially reducing energy bills. The property is currently registered with and monitored by the National Energy Foundation as a retrofitted 'super home', and receives an Ofgem RHI grant of £963 pa, of which four years remain and which is transferable to a new owner.

Disclaimer: Private drainage, Environmental Agency Compliance Certificate available on request

Pax Lodge is half a mile from Twyford village centre, and about two miles from Winchester. Twyford’s wide range of facilities include a post office/shop, cafe, hairdressers, primary school, Twyford Preparatory School, play parks, doctors’ surgery, pharmacy and two popular public houses, within a lively, welcoming village community. Nearby Shawford, across the Itchen valley watermeadows, provides a rail service to London (approximately 75 minutes). Winchester itself is a characterful, historic cathedral city, with national retail chains, independent boutique shops and eateries, a number of celebrity restaurant chains and an impressive farmers market. It is highly renowned for its outstanding education establishments, ranging from both private and state schools to popular Peter Symonds sixth form college and Winchester University. Coast and country lifestyle pursuits are all within striking distance as the village is well placed within the South Downs National Park. Connections are excellent as the A34, M3, M27 and Winchester and Shawford Railway Stations are within easy reach. Further afield are the New Forest, the Meon Valley and both Bournemouth and Portsmouth’s coastal beaches.