5 bedroom detached house for sale

Substantial home offering space and opportunity located on a highly desirable private road in South Farnham.

Description

Leigh Lane is a highly desirable private no-through road in South Farnham tucked away, yet within close proximity to the mainline station, local shops, town centre, local well-regarded school and the very popular Bourne Woods.

As it stands, this excellent home offers a welcoming ambiance with large windows throughout allowing a great amount of natural light to fill the accommodation. The vast and adaptable space is ideal for both social living and entertaining and is conducive to multi-generational households.

The property offers exceptional scope for improvement and extension with planning permission granted for a 2300 sq ft second dwelling situated in its own quarter acre plot. There is also planning permission for the addition of a detached double garage.

The property is understood to have been built in the 1960’s and has not been extended, therefore retains this potential.

The present owners have made improvements through the installation of Schuco double glazing a pressurised water system, a new condenser boiler and hot water tank. There is also underfloor heating in the open plan kitchen/family room.

The open porch and handsome door, welcomes you into a generous entrance hall, which has the original mahogany flooring that flows through the majority of the ground floor. There are four generous principal reception rooms with pocket sliding doors providing excellent connectivity and the ability to be open plan or divided into separate spaces. The south facing garden terrace extends the living areas, providing a seamless indoor-outdoor flow, perfect for enjoying warmer seasons. There is a study that links to the south facing orangery, which provides a wonderful vantage point to enjoy a full panoramic view of the garden. The considerable sitting room benefits from a working open fireplace and impressive stone surround with a projector screen cinema set up. The fourth reception room is a south facing snug connects to the open plan family kitchen and dining room.

An incredible feature of the ground floor is the expansive open plan living, dining, and kitchen area with a semi-vaulted ceiling, adorned with velux windows and large sliding glass doors. Throughout, there is a solid engineered oak flooring with underfloor heating. The fireplace opening is ready for a wood burner. With ample room for cooking, living and dining this is a fabulous hub of the home perfect for sociable family living and entertaining.

The kitchen is fitted with stylish, minimalist cabinets offering substantial storage with granite and walnut worktops and a large island with breakfast bar seating.

From the kitchen, or accessible from the front of the property, there is a games room/gym onto a utility room/second kitchen and walk in larder. This area of the ground floor provides the flexibility to potentially be used as an integral annexe.

The galleried staircase leads to an open landing and a luxurious principal bedroom complete with a dressing room and en suite bathroom with underfloor heating.

This spacious bedroom enjoys a view over the garden and Bourne Valley tree tops beyond. Accessed from a hatch on the landing is a vast, head height loft which provides good storage or the opportunity to extend into (STPP).

Additionally there are four double bedrooms, one with an en suite shower room and all served by a family bathroom room.

Outside the property is approached by a generous driveway with parking for up to six cars. The driveway is flanked by lawn and attractive planting. There is planning permission to create a detached garage.

To the rear there is a spacious and very private garden that enviably faces south. There is a grand York Stone terrace providing ample room for alfresco entertaining with an elevated view of the garden. The terrace extends around to an outdoor pool, complete with a pool/plant room with shower and changing facilities. The garden features an attractive pond, magnolia tree and has a lush mature border offering a high degree of privacy. The total plot measures approximately 1.36 acres.

The property comes with the unique opportunity of a building plot of around 0.25 of an acre. Presently there is a building comprising a one bedroom annexe and stabling. There is granted planning permissions to build a contemporary designed house in replacement of about 2,300 sq feet gross. Permitted development rights are also included. The plot fronts Leigh Lane and has access from the beginning of the adjacent drive entrance. The new build property is nicely located in the plot itself and most rooms will have bright aspects overlooking the gardens. The plot faces south and is mostly lawn with a mixture of mature trees and hedges at boundaries. The original donor stable building will need to be demolished by the buyer in readiness for a contemporary replacement as per planning. The design could be re configured if needed, subject to planning permission.
Further details are available by request. CIL charge to be confirmed.

Location

Leigh Lane is a secluded and prime south Farnham location with convenient access to a choice of local schools, the station, and the town centre (around 1 miles). Also close by are local shops on The Ridgway including a Tesco, a baker and a butcher.

Farnham’s Georgian town centre offers a range of branded and independent shops and supermarkets, including Waitrose and Sainsbury’s. There are a number of coffee shops and restaurants and the town plays host to monthly and seasonal markets and the centrally located Malting Arts Centre offers theatre, film and crafts events. Opening soon in Farnham is the new Brightwells yard development which includes a collection of shops, restaurants, cinema all within a piazza style setting.

Farnham's mainline station provides trains to London Waterloo (within an hour). The A31 provided access to the A3, M25 and the national motorway network. There is a good selection of schools in the area including South Farnham School, St Polycarp's Primary School, Weydon School, Edgeborough, Frensham Heights and More House School.

Recreational activities locally including gyms and racket sports at The Bourne Club and David Lloyd and golf at Farnham and Hankley. Bourne Green and recreations ground is also close by.

There is access that allows direct access to the adjacent Paradise Woods and on to Greenhill Road and into central Farnham. This part of Surrey offers excellent walking, cycling and riding opportunities at beauty spots which include Bourne Woods, Alice Holt Forest, Frensham Common and around Great and Little Ponds.

Square Footage: 4,929 sq ft



Additional Info

All mains services connected.

Planning Application WA/2023/01689 - Valid From 24/07/2023 - Erection of a new dwelling following the demolition of an ancillary building.

Planning Application WA/2014/1122 - Valid From 24/06/2014 - Erection of a detached garage