Reception hall • cloakroom • sitting room • kitchen/dining room • utility room • garden office with adjoining boiler room • master bedroom with en-suite dressing room and shower room • two further bedrooms • family bathroom • garage • garden. EPC Band C.

Basingstoke 9 miles
Winchester 14 miles
London Waterloo from Basingstoke, from 45 minutes

SITUATION

Lower Down Cottage is one of just a few houses in a beautiful position between the villages of Dummer and Preston Candover surrounded by open farmland. The property is within catchment of the excellent primary school in Preston Candover (and the bus stops outside) where there is also a pub and a church, and in Dummer there is also a church, a pub and a cricket centre, and there is an excellent village shop in nearby North Waltham. There are excellent walks in the area in addition to the Wayfarers Walk. More comprehensive shopping, educational and recreational facilities can be found in the regional centres of Basingstoke (9 miles) and Winchester (14 miles). Additional shopping and Sainsbury’s supermarket is just 3 miles away at Kemshott.

The cottage is well located for ease of access with the M3 (J7) providing easy access to both the M3 and A303 and the main line stations at Basingstoke, Overton and Micheldever providing fast and frequent services to London Waterloo.

THE PROPERTY

Lower Down Cottage has been extended and modernised and now offers well-proportioned three bedroom accommodation of great charm and character, with beautiful Karndean flooring throughout the ground floor and with two York stone fireplaces. There is no onward chain.

On the ground floor, the front door opens to the reception hall from which the staircase rises to the first floor, with cloakroom off. To one side is the triple aspect sitting room which has two sets of French doors opening to the garden, and an attractive fireplace with log burning stove. To the other side is the kitchen/dining room. The kitchen area is comprehensively fitted with ample storage and working surfaces with a central island unit, and the dining area also has an attractive fireplace with another log burning stove. There is a utility cupboard just outside the back door.

On the first floor, the master bedroom has a dressing room and an en-suite shower room. There are two further bedrooms and the family bathroom. All of the rooms have lovely open views.

OUTSIDE

To the front there is generous gravelled parking for 3 cars, whilst the garage, with parking in front, is behind the back garden. The garden lies in two parts. Immediately behind the cottage, there is an attractive walled courtyard garden with a large paved terrace between the house itself and the outbuilding which comprises an office with power and heating, and a boiler room. Beyond is a further area of garden, fully enclosed by fencing, laid to lawn.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Services: Mains water and electricity. Private drainage. Oil fired central heating.

Local authority: Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council

Viewing: By prior appointment through Randalls Residential on 01256 345635

Agents note: Some internal images were taken before the property was vacated.

Directions to RG25 2AX:

From M3 junction 7 follow the signs to Dummer. Proceed through the village, passing the pub and bearing right at the church, then pass the pond and take the left hand turning into Dummer Down Lane, signed Axford and The Candovers. At the end of this lane, turn left, and Lower Down Cottage will be found on the right hand, after about one mile