4 bedroom detached house for sale

The welcoming parquet-floored entrance hall leads to a well-planned ground-floor, including a study (that can easily serve as a fifth double bedroom), opposite a shower room/WC, a kitchen/breakfast room with shaker-style units, generous work surfaces, integrated appliances and space for informal dining with French doors to the garden terrace, benefiting from views over the garden and countryside beyond. Flowing into the formal dining room, with double doors leading into the double-aspect sitting room featuring a fireplace with a wood-burning stove, with French doors out to the garden terrace. A highlight is the conservatory, providing an additional light-filled reception space. Additionally, the ground floor has a pantry and a China pantry, which gives access to the utility room and an integral double garage.

Upstairs, a spacious landing leads to all bedrooms. The impressive principal suite includes a generous bedroom with far-reaching views, a dressing room with built in wardrobes and access to a hobby room/storage and a well-appointed en suite bathroom. There are three additional double bedrooms and a family bathroom.

To the front, a large gravel driveway provides ample parking and access to the double garage. The rear garden features a paved terrace, leading down to a lawn with a well-stocked border, a rockery with a pond, a productive vegetable garden, a greenhouse, a shed and far reaching countryside views.

Set within the popular village of Owslebury in the South Downs National Park, the property enjoys a strong sense of community, with a primary school, village pub, village hall with a post office two mornings a week and local clubs. The nearby village of Twyford provides a village shop/post office and doctors’ surgery, while more extensive facilities are available in Bishop’s Waltham and Winchester, with a wide choice of supermarkets close by. Winchester's rail services offer a direct line to London Waterloo from 58 minutes. The area is particularly well served for education, making it ideal for families. Local schooling includes Owslebury Primary School, feeding into The Westgate School in Winchester and Peter Symonds Sixth Form College. A number of highly regarded independent schools are also nearby, including Twyford School, Prince’s Mead, The Pilgrims’ School, St Swithun’s, Winchester College and King Edward VI School, Southampton. (times and distances are approximate).