Reception hall, sitting room, family room, dining room, kitchen, utility room, cloakroom, principal bedroom with en-suite shower room, three further bedrooms, family bathroom. Double garage, gardens, in all about 0.25 acre. EPC band TBC.

Basingstoke 9 miles (Waterloo from 45 mins)
Reading 11 miles (Paddington from 26 mins)

Situation

The property is located adjacent to the Englefield Estate forest on the edge of Silchester, a popular village located on the Hampshire/Berkshire borders. The village itself has facilities including a primary school, public house and church, whilst more day to day facilities are available in the nearby town of Tadley. More extensive leisure, recreational and educational facilities are available in the nearby towns of Reading, Newbury and Basingstoke, each within a short drive, and consequently the property is well located for access to both the Paddington and Waterloo lines and the M3 and M4 motorways.

The village itself is the site of the Roman town Calleva Atrebatum and is surrounded by delightful heathland and woods with extensive walks and rides available through ancient Pamber Forest and over the Englefield Estate woods (by subscription).

The Property

Croft Cottage in one of just two houses built in the mid-1990s on the edge of the village, backing onto farmland and overlooking woodland to the front. The property is set back from the road with a long front garden and offers well-presented and well-proportioned family accommodation. Amended planning permission (BDB/53427) was granted in 2007 for an extension to the utility room at the rear, which has been carried out, and the same permission allows for a substantial ground floor extension (as shown in the plans) as well as for the addition of a cart barn alongside the existing double garage. The property has been improved by the current owners with new windows, new bathrooms a new kitchen and a new boiler was installed last year.

The front door opens to the entrance porch from which a door opens to the reception hall with staircase rising and turning to the first floor, with cloakroom off. To one side is the double aspect sitting room with large feature inglenook fireplace with fitted log burning stove and French doors opening to the rear garden, and there is a triple aspect family room overlooking the front garden. The kitchen/breakfast room is comprehensively fitted with an extensive range of floor and wall mounted units and with a central island unit and overlooks the rear garden and there is a large opening to the adjoining dining room which has French doors opening to the side garden. The extended utility room offers a further range of units and has a door opening to the garden.

On the first floor the principal bedroom has an en suite shower room and fitted wardrobes and there are three further double bedrooms, two with built in wardrobes and the family bathroom.

Outside

To the front there is a large shingle driveway with parking for several cars, and a detached brick built double garage (the planning allows for the erection of an adjoining cart barn to one side). The front garden is laid to lawn with flower and shrub borders. There is a side garden leading to the rear, where the garden is fully enclosed, level and enjoying a high degree of privacy and a westerly orientation. There is a large, paved terrace adjoining the house and extending along one side of the garden and flower and shrub beds and borders and a large garden shed.

Services
All mains services are connected. Gas fired radiator central heating.

Local Authority
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council. T: 01256 844844

Viewing
Strictly by appointment through Randalls Residential on 01256 345635

Directions (RG7 2PA):
Leave Basingstoke in a Northerly direction along the A340 signposted towards Tadley. Proceed through Sherborne St John and after some three miles turn right opposite The Queens College Arms pub, signposted Bramley. After approximately one mile turn left signposted Little London and continue straight through the village and then into Silchester. Turn left at the Calleva Arms pub and after about ½ mile take the second right into Soke Road. Croft Cottage will be found on the left-hand side after about ½ mile