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Southdown House

SOUTH TOWN ROAD I I ALTON I I GU34 5PP 4 Double Bedrooms | En Suite Shower Room and Family Bathroom | Entrance Hall | Drawing Room | Dining Room | Snug | Kitchen/Breakfast Room with Larder | Utility Room Cloakroom | Cellar | Games Room/Home Office with adjoining Garage | Timber Stable Block with Hay Stores | Garden, Grounds and Small Paddock in all about 1.15 acres (0.466 ha) Mileages: Alton 4.6 miles, Alresford 5.6 miles, 12.8 miles, 13.7 miles Stations at Alton or Basingstoke with scheduled services to London Waterloo. J7 M3 9.4 miles, A31 0.9 mile

I The Property Southdown House is a fine Victorian family house with The four double bedrooms are well positioned off a soul and character from that wonderful period. The spacious landing. A family house for over 30 years, the brick exterior has a distinctive timbered veranda to the house is in need of modernisation with scope for further main façade and the large, mainly sash windows extension (subject to planning), as it has been little provide a lovely light interior. Inside there are generous altered over the centuries. The house has a lovely ceiling heights upstairs and downstairs with two well gravelled approach which swings past the front of the proportioned reception rooms, an elegant hall and house to a rear courtyard where there is a practical snug by the kitchen/breakfast room which has a lovely everyday back door and outbuilding which has been a aspect into the garden and easy access to the south great home office with garage adjoining, but could facing terrace outside. easily be a games room or even ancillary annexe. There is plenty of parking space for cars by the house and an old timber shed and Garage/Store attached to the Home office. In all about 1.15 acres (0466 ha). I Location Well set back from the corner of Paice Lane and South Town Road, between Medstead and ; the house is positioned on high ground in a lovely mature garden setting with some fine copper beech, horse chestnut and oak trees. The garden and grounds are free range heaven for children and there is scope for ponies with a small paddock and stables. Our clients rented additional grazing locally as needs dictated. The local village of Medstead is nearby with a shop/Post Office, pub, Saxon church and more extensive amenities are available nearby at either Four Marks, Alton or Alresford. The extensive network of local lanes, footpaths and bridleways provide amazing walks and cycling routes, ideal for any country/outdoor enthusiasts. The A31 is at Four Marks and provides good regional transport links between Guildford and Winchester. The M3 lies to I Outside the north at Basingstoke where there is also a fast The garden is mature and well established with some and is mainly lawn with an enclosed vegetable garden commuter rail service to London Waterloo. There is a fine perimeter native trees providing privacy and and interspersed in parts with mature shrubs. There is good choice of independent and state schools in the seasonal colour. There is a paved terrace with southerly a separate access off Paice Lane, which leads to the region including Alton School, St Swithun’s, Twyford, aspect outside the kitchen/snug ideal for summer small fenced paddock and stable block (with three Perrins (Alresford), Alton Sixth Form College and lunches and barbeques. The garden gently slopes away looseboxes, two hay stores and small tack room). Peter Symonds at Winchester. Approximate IPMS2 Floor Area = 242.4 sq m / 2609 sq ft Cellar = 11.9 sq m / 128 sq ft Outbuildings = 130.0 sq m / 1399 sq ft I Directions to GU34 5PP Limited Use Area = 1.3 sq m / 14 sq ft Total = 385.6 sq m / 4150 sq ft (Including Garage) Take the A31 to the middle of Four Marks. At the staggered cross roads turn (north) into

Barn Home Office / Bottom Road (heading towards 4.16 x 3.48 Garden Store Games Room Garage 13'8 x 11'5 2.94 x 2.39 5.04 x 4.49 5.35 x 4.46 Medstead), follow this road for about 0.8 of a mile 9'8 x 7'10 16'6 x 14'9 17'7 x 14'8 as you approach Paice Lane (on your left) turn in, (Not Shown In Actual (Not Shown In Actual but then go straight ahead into the gravel drive up Location / Orientation) Location / Orientation) (Not Shown In Actual to Southdown House. B Location / Orientation)

Utility

3.53 x 3.49 3.52 x 3.45 3.46 x 1.70 3.58 x 3.46 11'7 x 11'5 11'7 x 11'4 11'4 x 5'7 11'9 x 11'4 4.67 x 3.51 15'4 x 11'6

Kitchen / Breakfast Room 6.06 x 4.26 = Reduced head height below 1.5m 19'11 x 14'0 Stables (Not Shown In Actual Location / Orientation) 6.85 x 2.09 22'6 x 6'10

Dn Snug Bedroom 3 Bedroom 4 4.60 x 3.68 4.60 x 3.34 3.99 x 3.97 Up 15'1 x 12'1 15'1 x 10'11 Dn 13'1 x 13'0

Up Services: Mains electricity, metered mains water, Sitting Room 9.28 x 4.59 oil fired heating and private drainage. 30'5 x 15'1 Master Bedroom Dining Room 5.20 x 4.61 4.61 x 4.42 Local Authority: District Council, Bedroom 2 17'1 x 15'1 15'1 x 14'6 4.75 x 3.52 www.easthants.gov.uk, 01730 266551 15'7 x 11'7 IN Council Tax: Band G. EPC: E29.

A much loved family home for 32 years from Cellar Ground Floor First Floor Surveyed and drawn in accordance with IPMS: Residential Buildings by fourwalls-group.com 232722 “toddlers to a wedding, we have loved the balance of space inside and outside, the happy Wilson Hill have not tested apparatus, equipment, fittings or services and so cannot verify they are in working order. memories will last a lifetimer ” The buyer is advised to obtain verification from their solicitor or surveyor. Maps and plans shown as a guide only. Viewing strictly by appointment. Details and photographs dated May 2019.

01730 262600 I [email protected] I wilsonhill.co.uk

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