5 bedroom house for sale
Key information
Property description & features
- A major portion of a large Georgian country house.
- Elegant rooms retaining much of the original character with high ceilings, large windows and fireplaces.
- 5 Bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3 reception rooms including the self-contained annexe.
- About 5041 sq.ft of accommodation in excellent order.
- Mature gardens of about one acre with garaging and open views.
- No onward chain
Main house: reception hall, drawing room, kitchen/dining room, cloakroom, utility room, garden/boiler room, master bedroom with en-suite bathroom, three further double bedrooms, family bathroom.
Annexe: hall, sitting room, kitchen, bedroom, shower room.
Outside: detached garage, additional garage/workshop, mature gardens of about 1 acre
Reading 7 miles,
Basingstoke 11 miles,
London Paddington from 45 minutes from Mortimer Station,
London Waterloo also accessible from Mortimer via Basingstoke.
Situation
The property is located on the edge of Mortimer, a desirable and picturesque village on the Hampshire/Berkshire borders with an excellent range of local facilities catering for most day-to-day requirements, including schools, shops, doctor’s surgery and pubs, and the station which provides easy access to Paddington via Reading and Waterloo via Basingstoke.
The nearby towns of Reading and Basingstoke both provide a comprehensive range of leisure, recreational, arts and educational facilities and are well located for ease of communication to London by car on the M4 and M3 respectively.
The Property
Mortimer Hill is an impressive Grade II Listed Georgian country house with Victorian additions which was subdivided during the 1970s. 2 Mortimer Hill is one of the two major portions of the property. It offers spacious family accommodation in excellent order throughout retaining all of the charm and character of the period with elegant rooms with high ceilings and tall windows, many with shutters, and original fireplaces.
The main accommodation occupies the upper ground and first floors. The reception hall has an unusual and attractive barrel-vaulted ceiling, the drawing room has a lovely marble fireplace and the spacious dual aspect kitchen/dining room has French doors opening to the garden. It is comprehensively fitted with bespoke units in the Classic style by deVOL and has a four oven AGA.
All of the bedrooms are well-proportioned and both bathrooms are modern.
The lower ground floor annexe is self-contained and offers spacious one-bedroom accommodation.
For further details, please refer to the floorplan.
Outside
The mature gardens extend to about 1 acre and provide a lovely setting for the property with open views from the ha-ha to one side and mature trees on another. Largely laid to lawn, there are a number of mature trees and shrubs, flower beds and borders, a paved terrace and an enclosed orchard and vegetable garden with a greenhouse. There is a detached brick-built garage and a further brick-built garage/workshop.
Services
Mains water, electricity and drainage. Oil-fired central heating.
Tenure
Ther property is leasehold with a 999-year lease from 1975 with a peppercorn rent.
Local authority
West Berkshire
Viewing
By prior appointment through Randalls Residential on[use Contact Agent Button]
Postcode RG7 3PW
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