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Area stats5 bedroom character property for sale
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Features and description
- Many period features
- Flexible, well proportioned living space
- 5 beds, 3 baths & 3 receptions!
- Well maintained throughout
- Very generous outside space
- Quiet, secluded location
- Brilliant array of outbuildings
- Potential for side incomes, air b&b etc
Little Dowdens is a stunning period cottage, sitting in a beautiful quiet spot, surrounded by wonderful gardens, an array of helpful outbuildings meaning it adds up to a quite brilliant and exciting opportunity for someones forever home! The cottage itself consists of a large helpful hallway with nooks, cranny's and cupboards galore. There is access into a utility room and into the generous kitchen/breakfast room. From there is an opening into the central living/dining/family space which is as charming as it is practical. With beautiful period features including an inglenook fireplace with Italian wood stove. With very generous proportions this is the room where everyone can come together. This opens in to a lovely glass sun room with doors to the garden courtyard. To one side of this room is large study/ also ready to be set up as a down stairs bedroom with en-suite shower room. On the other side of the central room is another office/snug/playroom. There are also stairs to the first floor. The other main reception room is a lovely sitting room with large twin windows over looking the garden and a lovely wood burning stove. From there is another door to another staircase to the first floor. At the top of these stairs is a generous main bedroom with en-suite shower room. There is an interconnecting door to another bedroom or if wanted to be kept separate there are stairs to the other end. From the other landing is access to a further 3 bedrooms and a bathroom. The largest of these bedrooms is a another beautiful master option with dressing area.
Outside the property offers perhaps even more than the cottage itself.
The immediate garden is a mature lawn and patio private walled garden and beyond that there is so much more!
There is a wonderful array of of outbuildings including a garage/carport, a studio cottage, 2 summer houses and a brilliant 20m x 4m workshop with light, power and water. There are further generous gardens, and a lovely meadow. At the other end of the property is a tucked away garden, leading to a beautiful weeping willow tree and lovely far reaching views!
It really is a property that needs fully viewing in person to truly appreciate all it has to offer.
Rooms
Hallway
3.29m x 2.82m - 10'10" x 9'3"
Storage cupboard.Pantry style cupboard.
Utility
1.7m x 1.58m - 5'7" x 5'2"
Breakfast Room
3m x 2.51m - 9'10" x 8'3"
Kitchen
3.57m x 2.51m - 11'9" x 8'3"
Pantry cupboard.Also kitchen is open into breakfast room.
Living/Dining Room/Family
6.36m x 4.59m - 20'10" x 15'1"
Large fireplace. Stairs to first floor. Open into glass roof sunroom.
Sun Room
3.46m x 3.44m - 11'4" x 11'3"
Side door to garden.
Sitting Room
5.23m x 4.29m - 17'2" x 14'1"
Large fire place. Twin windows over looking garden.Door to 2nd stairs to first floor.
Office/Downstairs Bedroom & En-suite.
3.72m x 2.96m - 12'2" x 9'9"
Ensuite Shower Room
1.76m x 1.55m - 5'9" x 5'1"
Inner Lobby
1.78m x 1.36m - 5'10" x 4'6"
Built in cupboard. This room gives access to the downstairs bedroom & en-suite.
Study/Family Room/Play Room
4.43m x 3.21m - 14'6" x 10'6"
Landing
3.29m x 2.11m - 10'10" x 6'11"
Porthole style window to view.
Bedroom 1
5.1m x 4.66m - 16'9" x 15'3"
Stairs to downstairs. Built in storage cupboard. En-suite shower room. Internal door to bedroom 3.
Ensuite Shower Room
1.83m x 1.54m - 6'0" x 5'1"
Bedroom 2
5.73m x 2.73m - 18'10" x 8'11"
Built in his/hers wardrobes.
Dressing Room
3.22m x 2.18m - 10'7" x 7'2"
Dressing room into bedroom 2. Built in storage.
Bedroom 3
4.52m x 2.96m - 14'10" x 9'9"
Bedroom 4
2.96m x 2.47m - 9'9" x 8'1"
Bathroom
3.03m x 1.97m - 9'11" x 6'6"
Carport/Garage
Large carport split into front and rear rooms.
Outside
Outside the property has an amazing array of spaces, gardens, buildings and potential. Immediately outside the main cottage is a beautifully tended, mature, walled garden with courtyard and lawn areas. To the other side of the driveway is a another generous garden, with a small studio cottage, set up as an art studio but with the potential to create an annex, b&b or gym. The sewerage treatment plant is also on this section. At the end of that garden is a beautiful weeping willow and extensive views. To the other side of the property is a large car/port garage, a 4 part timber and corrugated workshop with light, power and water supply. There are generous gardens, with a further 2 large summer houses and a large meadow.
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