4 bed detached house for sale

Church View Cottage, Baughurst RG26

Randalls Residential Estate Agents. A delightful, detached country cottage in a quiet rural position with small paddock backing onto farmland with open views towards the church.

Reception hall, sitting room, dining/family room, study/bedroom 4, kitchen, utility room, ground floor shower room, master bedroom with dressing room and en-suite shower room, two further bedrooms, family bathroom, lovely gardens, gated driveway parking.

Basingstoke 8 miles
Newbury 12 miles
London Waterloo from 42 minutes from Basingstoke station.

Situation

Church View Cottage enjoys a quiet rural location in north Hampshire between the towns of Basingstoke and Newbury. Church Brook is a quiet country lane between the village of Baughurst and the town of Tadley. Tadley itself offers facilities catering for all day-to-day requirements and there is a swimming pool and golf course nearby, and the excellent Wellington Arms gastro-pub is within walking distance in Baughurst.

More extensive leisure, recreational and educational facilities are available in the two larger towns of Basingstoke and Newbury, and indeed Reading. Basingstoke also provides access to the M3 and the Waterloo line and Newbury and Reading provide access to the M4 and the Paddington Line to London. Heathrow and Southampton airport are within about one hour's drive.

The Property

Church View Cottage is an attractive detached period cottage, thought to date from the 17th Century. Formerly a farmhouse to the adjacent Church Brook Equestrian Centre and coming to the market for the first time, it offers scope to remodel and modernise and extends to about 1848 sq.ft with a number of exposed beams. It is set back from the lane with a gated driveway and has a level plot extending to about 0.5 acre and has no onward chain.

On the ground floor, the front door opens to the reception hall, with shower room off. There are three separate reception rooms, all overlooking the rear garden. The first is a study or occasional fourth bedroom, the second is a sitting room with brick fireplace and the third is the dining/family room. This is the largest and is dual aspect with French doors opening to the rear garden and has the staircase rising to the first floor. A glazed door leads to the kitchen which has a two oven Aga and there is also a utility room.

On the first floor the master bedroom has a dressing room and en-suite shower there are two further bedrooms and the family bathroom.

For further details please refer to the floorplan.

Outside

The property is approached from the lane over a gated driveway providing ample driveway parking with potential for garaging and stabling (subject to planning)

The garden itself spreads around three sides of the cottage. It is level and fully enclosed and primarily laid to lawn. There is also a small paddock, a chicken run and an area for a kitchen garden. In all, the plot extends to about 0.5 acre and backs onto paddocks.
Additional information


Services
Mains water and electricity. Oil fired heating and new private drainage.

Local authority
Basingstoke and Dean District Council .

Viewing
By appointment through Randalls Residential Estate Agents in Basingstoke

Postcode
RG26 4AY