Beautifully presented waterfront house with a sunny south/westerly aspect and delightful views across to Brownsea Island.

Location

The area is renowned for its seven miles of golden beaches, beautiful parks and gardens. Poole Harbour is close buy with a whole host of water sports facilities available. Rick Stein's highly successful signature restaurant on Sandbanks is a favourite with locals, as well as visitors.

The towns of Poole and Bournemouth are conveniently located for the perfect lifestyle where there is an abundance of shops, restaurants, cafes and bars together with excellent facilities for bathing, golfing and access to the flagship dealership for Sunseeker luxury yachts. You can also catch the daily ferry to Brownsea Island and Swanage which is a gateway town for exploring the Jurassic Coast, a 155km World Heritage Site.

Local mainline stations connect to London Waterloo in just under 2 hours. The M27 and M3 provide links to major towns and cities, such as Southampton, Winchester and London. For international connections, Bournemouth Airport is away.

Parkstone Yacht Club 50 metres
Lilliput shops 1 mile
Sandbanks beach 2 miles
Poole town centre 2 miles
Bournemouth town centre 6 miles
Bournemouth Airport 12 miles
London 110 miles (1 hour 50 minutes by train)

All times and distances are approximate

Description

Harbour Front House is a beautifully presented waterfront property offering privacy and security. This magnificent house has been redesigned in recent years to an extremely high quality, to maximise the prime waterfront position the property commands. The property's south westerly aspect allows for sensational views across Parkstone marina to Brownsea Island, the Sandbanks peninsula and the entrance to Poole Harbour.

Behind the solid entrance gates, Harbour Front House is set at the end of a sweeping block paviour driveway. This attractive family and entertaining property consisting of approximately 4,061 sq ft, providing substantial accommodation ideal for today's lifestyle on the coast.

You enter into an impressive entrance hall, where you are immediately greeted with a grand sweeping staircase and views along the tiled hallway, across the sitting room to Poole Harbour. Leading from the hallway are the principal reception rooms including the elegant living room with engineered wood flooring, a bespoke Walnut entertainment wall unit, bar area and overlooking the garden with views stretching across the water. A door from the living area leads to the front of the property, where there is a curved office and a separate cloakroom. The property benefits from hardwood framed double glazed windows, decorative cornicing and air conditioning to the principal rooms.

The expansive kitchen/breakfast room features beautifully appointed handmade kitchen units, integral Gaggenau appliances, granite work tops and a feature central island with entertaining and practicality in mind. It is open plan with a semi-circular breakfast area, which gives access out to the patio and garden. To the opposite side of the kitchen is a door to the fitted utility room and along to the curved dining room with feature oval dropped ceiling.

The stairway leads up to a galleried landing on the first floor, where there is the impressive master bedroom suite with walk-in dressing room and fully tiled en-suite with Jacuzzi bath and sizeable mosaic shower. Double doors from both the bedroom and dressing room open out onto the balcony where you can enjoy views of the garden, Poole Harbour and beyond. Three further luxuriously appointed bedroom suites complete the accommodation on this floor.

On the top floor, there is a dual aspect guest suite comprising bedroom with seating area, en suite shower room, walk-in wardrobe and sun balcony to the front and rear, providing stunning panoramic harbour views.

A particular feature of the property are the beautifully landscaped south west facing gardens with sun decked terrace areas and a large lawn, which lead down to the water's edge with jetty and slipway.

The long driveway provides ample parking for several cars, with an array of mature shrubs on either side, leading up to the double garage with studio apartment above.


NB Photographs taken : July 2018

Square Footage: 4061 sq ft