Norton House

Bridge Lane • Shawford • • • SO21 2BL

Norton House Bridge Lane • Shawford • Winchester • Hampshire • SO21 2BL

One of Winchester’s most beautiful riverside houses, restored and sensitively extended by the current owners to create the perfect family home. A rare opportunity, 3 miles from the centre of the city and close to Shawford station offering regular direct trains to London Waterloo

Accommodation Reception hall • Kitchen/breakfast room • Cloakroom • Dining room • Family room • Study • Drawing room • Boot room • Utility room Principal bedroom suite with dressing room and bathroom • 4 further bedrooms • Family bathroom

Garage • Garden store

Garden and grounds of approximately 1.57 acres

EPC = D

Shawford station 0.2 miles • Southampton airport 10.3 miles • Winchester 3.4 miles (all mileages are approximate)

SaviIls Winchester 1 Jewry Street, Winchester, SO23 8RZ [email protected] 01962 841 842

Situation Communication links are excellent, with Shawford providing Constructed of brick under a clay tiles roof, the property offers a Norton House is situated in the sought after Civil Parish of a railway station with connections to Winchester and London number of desirable features and particularly spacious and well Compton and Shawford, approximately 3 miles to the south of Waterloo. The M3 provides access to the A34 and in turn balanced reception areas. The current owners have undertaken Winchester. With spectacular views across the water meadows the A303 but also the M27 and South Coast. Southampton various works to enhance and update the house, including to the South Downs National Park, the property is located on International Airport is easily accessible and provides access to a extending the drawing room and master bedroom and adding an a generous plot leading down to the Itchen Navigation. There number of European destinations. en suite bathroom. are delightful walks in the area to the water meadows and The well fitted kitchen/breakfast room is formed in an L-shape Shawford with its mainline railway station (Waterloo circa 1 Description hour). The cathedral offers an extensive range and open plan into the breakfast area and dining room. A range A rare opportunity to acquire one of Winchester¹s most beautiful of amenities including recreational, cultural and educational of pale grey wall and floor based units, incorporate an Aga and riverside houses, restored and sensitively extended by the current facilities. Schools are well provided for with both state and is complimented by oak floorboards that run throughout the owners to create the perfect family home, three miles from the private schools including St Swithun’s, Winchester College, majority of the ground floor. The breakfast area of the kitchen centre of the city and short walk from Shawford station that Twyford, The Pilgrims’ School, King Edward’s School in has an attractive curved window seat overlooking the garden. offers regular direct trains to London Waterloo. Southampton, Compton Primary School and Peter Symonds The magnificent drawing room leads from the entrance hall and College in Winchester. Norton House is an impressive detached property dating from has double doors leading onto the rear garden and a feature 1904 and featuring many aspects of the Arts & Crafts era. fireplace with marble surround and inset with a log burning stove. The family room is located to the rear of the property with double doors leading onto the terrace. On the first floor the principal suite offers generous proportions and leads to both a dressing area with fitted wardrobes and a generous and stylishly fitted en suite bathroom. There are four further bedrooms and a family bathroom on this floor. Outside Norton House is approached across a gravelled driveway providing parking for a number of vehicles, with gated access to the rear garden to the side of the house. A raised terrace adjacent to the rear of the house, overlooks the extensive garden which leads down to the Itchen Navigation and divided halfway down by a yew hedge. The garden is terraced and mainly laid to lawn and screened on both sides by mature trees, offering maximum privacy. The large areas of lawn are ideal for family life, offering space for a variety of activities. A wooden bridge crosses the Bishops Drain towards the end of the garden, which was believed to have been dug to float stone barges from Southampton to Winchester to assist with the building of the cathedral.

Accommodation See floor plans.

Tenure Freehold.

Services All mains services connected.

Outgoings Council Tax: Band H.

Local Authority Winchester City Council. Tel: 01962 840222. www.winchester. gov.uk

Directions to SO21 2BL Leave Winchester on the St Cross Road and on reaching the first roundabout take the second exit towards and Compton. Continue along this road over the motorway and take the first turning on the left into Shawford Road. Continue down this road, pass under the railway bridge and turn immediately left into Bridge Lane and continue down this lane, whereupon Norton House will be found on the right-hand side.

Energy Performance A copy of the full Energy Performance Certificate is available on request.

Viewing Strictly by appointment with Savills. Norton House, Bridge Lane, Shawford, SO21 2BL Approx. Gross Internal Area 3259 Sq Ft - 302 Sq M

Outbuilding Family Room Bedroom 3 4.85 x 3.66m 4.83 x 3.64m Approx. Gross Internal Area 15'11" x 12'0" 15'10" x 12'0" Eaves 498 Sq Ft - 46 Sq M Storage Kitchen/ Breakfast Room 6.71 x 3.45m 22'0" x 11'4"

Garden Store 3.63 x 2.03m Dining Room Bedroom 2 11'11" x 6'8" 4.85 x 3.45m 4.60 x 3.45m 10'4" x 8'4" Utility Room 15'11" x 11'4" 3.15 x 2.54m 15'1" x 11'4"

Garage Bedroom 1

Boot Room 6.73 x 3.35m

7.04 x 5.46m 3.61 x 1.47m 23'1" x 17'11" 11'10" x 4'10" 22'1" x 11'0"

Bedroom 5 Bedroom 4 3.51 x 3.48m 3.73 x 3.51m 11'6" x 11'5" 12'3" x 11'6" Study 3.73x 1.98m Drawing Room 12'3" x 6'6" 7.47 x 4.83m 24'6" x 15'10" Outbuilding

Ground Floor First Floor

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